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Rabbi Menachem Mirski

By Rabbi Haim Dov Beliak 02/12/2025 Leave a Comment Filed Under: Freighted Legacies, Guest Teachers, Rabbis, and Artists

The Many Worlds of a Modern, Young Polish Rabbi in Long Beach, California

Freighted Legacies is a webinar on the cultural life and times of Jews from Poland, Ukraine, and Eastern Europe.

Menachem Mirski is serving Temple Shalom of Long Beach after completing the Ziegler Rabbinic Program. He often appears on our pages, and he frequently discusses the weekly Torah portion in both English and Polish. While very busy in developing a revitalized young generation at Beth Shalom, he supports the re-development of the Sunday and Hebrew schools. Rabbi Menachem Mirski is an outstanding musician with a Ph.D. in philosophy from the Maria Curie-Sklodowska University in Lublin.

We are pleased that we will learn more about Rabbi Mirski’s journey from Przemysl to Lublin to Warsaw and Long Beach.

Shabbat with Professor Susannah Heschel

By Rabbi Haim Dov Beliak 04/05/2024 Leave a Comment Filed Under: Congregational Happenings, Guest Teachers, Rabbis, and Artists, Shabbat, Visiting Poland

Susannah Heschel is the Eli Black Professor of Jewish Studies at Dartmouth College. Her scholarship focuses on Jewish-Christian relations in Germany during the 19th and 20th centuries, the history of biblical scholarship, modern European anti-Semitism, and European Jewish scholarship on Islam.

Shabbat with Rabbi Berenbaum

By Rabbi Haim Dov Beliak 07/06/2023 Leave a Comment Filed Under: Congregational Happenings, Guest Teachers, Rabbis, and Artists, Visiting Poland

Rabbi Michael Berenbaum, a faculty member of American Jewish University and a world-renown scholar of the Holocaust lead Shabbat services at Babel, the temporary home of Beit Warszawa.

Thank You For Your Visit, Rabbi Alan Iser!

By Rabbi Haim Dov Beliak 07/05/2023 Leave a Comment Filed Under: Congregational Happenings, Guest Teachers, Rabbis, and Artists, Visiting Poland

Rabbi Alan Iser from Philadelphia visited Beit Warszawa on his way to teach at the Masorti Center in Jerusalem. Rabbi Iser has a long-time connection to Beit Warszawa. He has lectured on Jewish law, Halachah and many other topics. This is Rabbi Isers sixth visit to Poland.

Torah Commentary for the Book of Exodus 1:1 to 6:1, Shemot

By Rabbi Haim Dov Beliak 01/11/2018 Leave a Comment Filed Under: Guest Teachers, Rabbis, and Artists

Special Guest Torah Teacher Rabbi Michael Marmur Mandel Provost at Hebrew Union College in Jerusalem Recently — the weekend of November 9 and 10, 2017 — Rabbi Marmur visited Warsaw with the board of Overseers of Hebrew Union College. The Beit Warszawa Synagogue community was privileged to host a number of rabbis, professors and board […]

The Honey and The Sting

By Rabbi Dr. Walter Rothschild 12/14/2017 Leave a Comment Filed Under: Educational Guides, Guest Teachers, Rabbis, and Artists

The Polish translation of The Honey and The Sting will serve as a key educational tool for generations of people seeking authoritative and clear message about Judaism. In addition to the Polish speaking community in Poland, England and Chicago many other Serbo-Croatian dialects will be able to understand and use this book. The cost of […]