Beit Polska – The Union of Polish Progressive Jewish Communities in Poland and the European Union for Progressive Judaism (EUPJ) are concerned about the Amended Act on the Institute of National Remembrance – Commission for Prosecution of Crimes against the Polish Nation and some other Acts as passed by Lower House of Poland’s Parliament on […]
Meet Beit Polska’s Coordinator, Dominika Zakrzewska
I am the program coordinator for the Union of Jewish Progressive Communities in Poland, Beit Polska. It is hard to remember how and why I got involved. Perhaps, it’s the need for improving and developing both myself and the Jewish world around me. I joined Beit Polska as a friend of the community, wishing to […]
Polish Jewish Renewal Panel Discussion
Tuesday, October 17, 2017, 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm This October 17, 2017 at CSUN an important panel discussion on the revival of Jewish cultural and religious life in Poland will feature an outstanding experts. Be sure to reserve a spot to attend. All revivals seek to find a lost past. The phenomena of Friends […]
Shabbat Chol Hamoed Sukkot
Menachem Mirski is a rabbinic student at the Ziegler School of the American Jewish University. He is the first of four and perhaps five native Polish speaking future teachers and leaders of the remarkable Polish Renewal led by Beit Polska. Menachem arrived in late August to begin his rabbinic studies on the heels of a […]
Torah Sent to Poland
On March 20 a new Torah began the third leg of its journey to Poland. The transmission of a practically new scroll — only 150-years-old — of the first five books of the Bible, the Torah is a cause for celebration!! This beautiful scroll is a gift from a Conservative congregation Shaarei Tefilah in Norwood, […]
Szira
I met Szira in Warsaw at Beit Warszawa. She was the temple librarian. The congregation had worked out an agreement with Alex Lauderback our neighbor in Encino, California. He is a man in his late 80’s, a Polish Holocaust survivor. Alex found Jewish books from synagogues and temples that had surplus Jewish books. He would […]