Simchat Torah This week we celebrate the final holiday of this season of joy, Simchat Torah. We gather together to complete the cycle of Torah readings, and roll the scroll back to once again start from the beginning of our story, the story of creation. Having spent a year discussing the people and events of […]
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Modeling the Jewish Learning and Humanity of Our Late Teacher Rabbi Michael A. Signer.
Parshat Lech Lecha
October 23rd, 2015/10 Cheshvan 5776 “Don’t stop after beating the swords into plowshares, don’t stop! Go on beating and make musical instruments out of them. Whoever wants to make war again will have to turn them into plowshares first.” – Yehuda Amichai, Israeli Poet I was hoping that it wouldn’t happen. I was hoping that we […]
Dvar Torah Vayeishev
One is not born into the world to do everything but to do something. – Henry David Thoreau Sometimes in the Torah, the smallest and most seemingly insignificant people and moments can have the biggest impact. This week, we begin the story of Joseph, the Torah’s longest continuous narrative (and one that has been made […]
A Letter from Mordy & Miriam Feinberg
UPDATED 09-01-23: In August word reached us that one of the most creative and devoted volunteers that Beit Warszawa was privileged to host passed away. Mordy Feinberg passed away on August 9 in Rockville, Maryland. Mordy’s wife, Miriam, writes us with the grace of her loss, but we remember the love and devotion that this […]
Dvar Torah
November 20th, 2015/8 Kislev 5776 Whenever tragedy strikes in the world, we start asking the toughest of questions, and we often become unsure of what should be done to bring us back to a place of healing and peace. The events in Paris and Lebanon last week were an especially strong shock to the world, […]
Dvar Torah Wayishlach
November 27th, 2015/15 Kislev 5776 Walking around with a name like Boris has gotten me in a lot of trouble. Even in America, a country with a diversity of people and an equal diversity of names, my name stood out. Upon hearing my name, people would often assume that I was born in Russia and […]
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