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 […]
Introduction to Malchuyot – Coronation of God
R.H. Musaf 5775 (Sep.25, 2014) The Shofar served two different functions in ancient times: It served as the siren warning of an approaching danger: war, flood, wild beasts… It also served as the trumpet calling all to rejoice with a new king or with a new year… All these different purposes are still imbedded in […]