January 18, 2015 Nine members of Beit Warszawa congregation came to the Baha’i center to meet people from the Baha’i, Buddhist, Christian and Muslim communities in Warsaw. The theme was : Overcoming Prejudice and Acknowledging Similarities. A representative from each group addressed the audience. Rabbi Gil Nativ read the Prayer for Peace by Rabbi Nachman […]
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Modeling the Jewish Learning and Humanity of Our Late Teacher Rabbi Michael A. Signer.
BeShalach 5775
30th January, 2015/10 Shvat 5775 Shirat HaYam –‘Song of the Sea’ or ‘Song on the Sea’ is one of the most beautiful and one of the most ancient pieces of Hebrew Poetry. I recall Prof. Moshe Greenberg saying that the deliverance of our ancestors from the mighty Egyptian Empire was such an incredible event, that […]
Zigler’s Story
Introduction by Rabbi Allen Maller In 2010 I was asked to serve as a Rabbinic scholar in residence at Beit Warszawa. My wife Judy Maller and I were amazed by the wonderful people we met in the congregation. Every rabbi knows that the Halakic definition of who is a Jew is simple: all children born […]
VaYechi – 5775
What made Judah the “Lion-King” of his brothers? 2nd January 2015/11 Tevet 5775 In the last four ‘parashot’ (pl. of parasha=portions) of Genesis, Joseph emerges as the most talented among the twelve sons of Jacob, and the one whose meteoric rise to power in Egypt eventually changes the entire history of our people. However, parallel […]
The Gathering of the Descendants of Bialystok
The Bialystok Gathering marks the anniversary of the second largest Ghetto rebellion against the Germans during World War II on or near August 16, 1943. Every Ghetto rebellion took place against a background of utter military hopelessness when German power was at it height and when help from Allies and partisan was least likely. The […]
VaYigash – 5775
Shabbat 26-27 December, 2014 Pharoe, impressed by the old semitic shepherd standing in front of him asks: How many are the years of your life [Gen.47:8]? However, Jacob replies using a different noun: “The years of my sojourn (=meguray) are thirty and a hundred years… [ibid:9] why ‘my sojourn’ and not ‘my life’? The simplest, […]
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