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Rabbi Miriam Klimova Presents “Good, Evil and the Self”

By Rabbi Haim Dov Beliak 10/29/2025 Leave a Comment Filed Under: Guest Teachers, Rabbis, and Artists

What is the nature of good and evil? From the Torah to contemporary thinkers, Jewish tradition has placed this question at the heart of its reflection. During our lecture, we will explore how rabbis, midrashim, philosophers, and modern teachers have responded to the dilemmas of the human heart, free will, and the meaning of suffering.

Miriam Klimova is the rabbi of the Shirat ha-Yam congregation in Haifa. She studied and was ordained at the Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion (HUC-JIR) in Jerusalem. She holds an M.A. in Hebrew Studies from Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland. […]

Rabbi Marty Steinhouse Visits Beit Trojmiasto Progressive Jewish Synagogue in Gdansk Over High Holidays

By Rabbi Haim Dov Beliak 08/08/2025 Leave a Comment Filed Under: Events, Guest Teachers, Rabbis, and Artists, Holidays

Rabbi Martin Steinhouse will lead Beit Trojmiasto Congregation’s High Holiday services in Gdansk. Dr. Jan Miklas-Frankowski announced that Beit Trojmiasto is inviting Jews living in the area and people seeking to understand Judaism. Friends of Jewish Renewal in Poland is pleased to sponsor the services. Service times and venue will be announced shortly. Rabbi Steinhouse […]

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.