Last year, the Jaunusz Korzcack Child Care Fund of Beit Polska and Friends of Jewish Renewal in Poland helped supply winter boots to 600 Ukrainian refugee children in Poland. We work with Spynka, a joint Polish-Ukrainian effort to address the needs of children and their mothers displaced by the war in Ukraine. This year we are providing mittens and gloves to the families. Please consider a donation for this fund. You may specifically designate your donation to this cause by […].
Concert for Ukraine
We warmly invite you to join the concert prepared by the Jewish Progressive community in Lviv. Congregation TEYVA is a home to several groups performing Yiddish music, including Sheyne Meydelekh Ensemble, Shtrudle Band & Mames un Tekhter Quartet. The Teyva community,[…]
Healing Tools
Educational Book Fosters Parental Emotional Support to Traumatized Young Children
Dr. Claudia Kohner is contributing to building a response to the trauma that Ukrainian children and their mothers and grandmothers are coping with in Poland. Her approach may help adults in understanding the feelings of preverbal children.[…]
A Note of Gratitude
Ukrainian Refugee Winter Footwear Campaign
Organizational genius and sweet soul Jonathan Mills writes to us from Poland.
One of Warsaw’s Progressive Polish Jewish community’s founders has returned to join with professional educators from Poland and Ukrain to create Spynka nurseries and preschools. Over 600 children and many Polish and Ukrainian are coping. This note and picture tells a story of thanks and joy:[…]
Janusz Korczak Childcare Center Supporting Spynka
Of the new centers Spynka opened last month, they are incredibly excited about the Spynka classroom at Fort Mokotow in Warsaw. Built for fortification during WWII but never put to use, Fort Mokotow is now a beautifully designed enclave of businesses and artistic creation. The Spynka space is one of our most beautiful and allows the children to be in a great outdoor environment in addition to the classroom. Its central location has meant the program was filled within a week of its opening, and there is a rapidly growing waitlist.[…]
In the Matter of Ukraine
Three noted academics will address the challenges shaping Ukraine today. The bravery of the Ukrainian people is inspirational. What has created the remarkable resistance and cohesion the world has witnessed?