Friends of Jewish Renewal in Poland
Co świętujemy w Rosz Haszana? Dość częstą odpowiedzią na to pytanie jest: świętujemy stworzenie świata. Ta odpowiedź jest ogólnie poprawna, ale kryje się za nią coś więcej. Midrasz (Wajikra Rabba 29:1) mówi nam, że świat został faktycznie stworzony 25 dnia miesiąca Elul. W Rosz Haszana zostali stworzeni ludzie.[…]
Rabbi Jack Shlachter (www.physicsrabbi.com) is currently a rabbi at HaMakom: The Place for Passionate and Progressive Judaism in Santa Fe, New Mexico while simultaneously serving the Los Alamos Jewish Center as their rabbi as well. Both congregations are small (approximately fifty families). Rabbi Shlachter is retired after several decades of full-time work at Los Alamos National Laboratory as a Ph. D. physicist. Because rabbinical[…]
Beit Warszawa Purim – 2023 Beit Warszawa celebrated Purim this year in grand style. Cantorial soloist Henyk Kowalski led a host of Megilla readings in Hebrew, Polish, and English. Pawel Spiewak led with words of explanation and reports of the fun are being spread through Madea and Shushan. But pictures tell a better story.
Recently, the Beit Warszawa congregation has met at the Bavel, a Jewish cultural center, and in a conference center near town. Part of the purpose of the trip was to meet people in the Step by Step classes and to learn about their concerns. Overall, Beit Polska has over 25 people enrolled in various conversion stages, and one of the critical reasons for the trip was to arrange for completing the course and the Beit Din process.[…]
