Thoughts on Parashat Bereshit (Gen 1:1-6:8) The earth brought forth vegetation: seed-bearing plants of every kind, and trees of every kind bearing fruit with the seed in it. And God saw that this was good […]God said, “Let the waters bring forth swarms of living creatures, and birds that fly above the earth across the […]
Modeling the Jewish Learning and Humanity of Our Late Teacher Rabbi Michael A. Signer.
Polish Jewish Renewal Panel Discussion
Tuesday, October 17, 2017, 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm This October 17, 2017 at CSUN an important panel discussion on the revival of Jewish cultural and religious life in Poland will feature an outstanding experts. Be sure to reserve a spot to attend. All revivals seek to find a lost past. The phenomena of Friends […]
Shabbat Chol Hamoed Sukkot
Menachem Mirski is a rabbinic student at the Ziegler School of the American Jewish University. He is the first of four and perhaps five native Polish speaking future teachers and leaders of the remarkable Polish Renewal led by Beit Polska. Menachem arrived in late August to begin his rabbinic studies on the heels of a […]
Concerts in Support of Friends of Jewish Renewal/Beit Polska
http://www.csun.edu/humanities/jewish-studies/events/polish-jewish-renewal-panel-discussion It was a privelege to be asked to co-produce three concerts in suppoprt of Beit Polska in October 2016, with my friend and colleague Rabbi Haim Dov Beliak. With participation by Cantor David Wisnia, a fine singer, raconteur and Auschwitz survivor; Wisnia’s grandson, the singer/songwriter/keyboardist Avi Wisnia; Beit Polska prayer leaders Iza Rivka Foremniak […]
Torah Sent to Poland
On March 20 a new Torah began the third leg of its journey to Poland. The transmission of a practically new scroll — only 150-years-old — of the first five books of the Bible, the Torah is a cause for celebration!! This beautiful scroll is a gift from a Conservative congregation Shaarei Tefilah in Norwood, […]
A Voice from the Audience
Copenhagen Jewish Film Festival At a recent screening of Bogdan’s Journey in Copenhagen a voice from the audience captured the mood after the film. The individual’s details — age, gender, Polish — are clues to a profound impact on her. March 8 in Los Angeles at the Music Hall at 7 pm join us for […]
- « Previous Page
- 1
- …
- 115
- 116
- 117
- 118
- 119
- …
- 137
- Next Page »