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Shabbat Gam Yachad – Beit Warszawa Shabbat School

By Zivah Nativ 10/15/2014 Leave a Comment Filed Under: Beit Warszawa, Looking for Partners

Shabbat Gam Yachad– our monthly children’s activities connect the children with the Jewish holidays and introduces the weekly Torah portion to them. Most of the children who attend have not had any Jewish experience before. Watching them walk with small Torah scrolls around the room during the Torah procession, or waving Israeli flags on Yom […]

Shabbat Hol Hamoed Sukkot at Beit Warszawa

By Zivah Nativ 10/15/2014 Leave a Comment Filed Under: Beit Warszawa, Holidays

This is the “season of joy” in Poland! On the Shabbat of Sukkot, the children and families gathered for our special program Shabbat Gam Yachad! The ten special Sabbaths are sponsored by Beit Warszawa, Beit Polska, and the Joint Distribution Committee! The weather in Poland was unusually cooperative!!

Shabbat at Beit Warszawa, August 2014

By Rabbi Gil Nativ 09/11/2014 Leave a Comment Filed Under: Beit Warszawa, Lunch & Learn, Shabbat

Being busy on Shabbat: “Six days thou shalt work, and on the Seventh day…” you shall be busy! Busy indeed are the people who attend Shabbat program at ‘Beit Warszawa’ in Warsaw. They begin 9:30-10:30 with a study session of Talmud, led by Rabbi Nativ using Hebrew, Aramaic, English, and Polish alternatively. The morning service, […]

Beit Warszawa and its Jews

By Rabbi Allen Maller 09/10/2014 Leave a Comment Filed Under: Becoming Jewish, Conversion Issues

In an American or Canadian Reform Synagogue today, about 10-15% of the younger generation of members were not born or raised as Jews. Almost half of this small minority were formally converted to Judaism by a Reform or Conservative Rabbi (Geray Tsedek). Another third of these people have informally become Jewish by living Jewishly, and […]

Shabbat HaChodesh –Beit Ki Tow, Warszawa

By Rabbi Gil Nativ 04/11/2016 Leave a Comment Filed Under: Beit Warszawa, Sermons

Nisan 1 /April 8, 2016 Which was the first commandment (out of 613) that we were commanded as a people? RaShi began his commentary for the Torah by saying that the first ‘mitzvah’ was to begin a new calendar and a new year in the month of spring [Ex.12:2] This commandment is preceded by a […]

Rabbi Jack Shlachter Visits Beit Polska for the High Holidays

By Rabbi Haim Dov Beliak 08/30/2023 Leave a Comment Filed Under: Holidays, Press Release, Tours of Poland, Visiting Poland

Rabbi Jack Shlachter (www.physicsrabbi.com) is currently a rabbi at HaMakom: The Place for Passionate and Progressive Judaism in Santa Fe, New Mexico while simultaneously serving the Los Alamos Jewish Center as their rabbi as well. Both congregations are small (approximately fifty families). Rabbi Shlachter is retired after several decades of full-time work at Los Alamos National Laboratory as a Ph. D. physicist. Because rabbinical[…]