The holiday of Purim at Beit Warszawa brought out the bakers. Led by Zivah Nativ, fifteen stalwarts volunteered to learn the fine art of the “three cornered” hat (Hamantaschen) that makes up part of the celebration of the holiday. The traditional cookie is filled with poppy seeds or fruit fillings. For Wednesday night costumes […]
Hanukkah 2014
Enjoy the wonderful pictures from Beit Warszawa Hanukkah 2014 (5775). The Progressive Jewish community in Warsaw enjoyed wonderful latkes and Hanukkah games (especially dreidle) and activities. Please consider a Hanukkah tax free gift that will sustain the hope filled work of Beit Polska and the nine communities served by the European Union for Progressive Judaism and Friends of Jewish […]
Celebrating The Holidays At Beit Warszawa
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Visitors from USA Meet Beit Warszawa Members
Visitors from Congregation Adath Jeshurun from Minneapolis and Magen Avraham from Omer, Israel and members of Temple Beth Am of Miami spent the evening in Beit Warszawa. Our guests met the president of Beit polska, Piotr Stasiak, our active member, Joe, watched a power point presentation shown by Rabbi Gil Nativ and his wife Zivah […]
Simchat Torah at Beit Warszawa
Shabbat Gam Yachad – Beit Warszawa Shabbat School
Shabbat Gam Yachad– our monthly children’s activities connect the children with the Jewish holidays and introduces the weekly Torah portion to them. Most of the children who attend have not had any Jewish experience before. Watching them walk with small Torah scrolls around the room during the Torah procession, or waving Israeli flags on Yom […]
Sukkah
It was 10:00 p.m last (very cold) night when our Sukkah was finally up and ready to be decorated. Our veteran member, Darek –veteran both in Beit Warszawa and as our sukka builder served as the orchestrator during 5 hours it took. Darek’s assistants, from our Step-by-Step class members included Henryk, Maceij and Tomek. All […]
Shabbat Hol Hamoed Sukkot at Beit Warszawa
This is the “season of joy” in Poland! On the Shabbat of Sukkot, the children and families gathered for our special program Shabbat Gam Yachad! The ten special Sabbaths are sponsored by Beit Warszawa, Beit Polska, and the Joint Distribution Committee! The weather in Poland was unusually cooperative!!
Moments in a Year of Learning to be Jewish
Becoming Jewish- a choice of a lifetime When starting on the journey to become Jewish- candidates of our Step-by-Step group engage in the life cycle of Beit Warszawa and Beit Polska. Theory and practice go hand by hand. Local candidates attend a once a week study session of Jewish customs and laws, Hebrew reading of […]