FOSTERING A VIBRANT RENEWAL OF JUDAISM IN POLAND
God made a world that is good but unfinished. He left his work to be completed by us people, or rather to be constantly completed in the context of changes taking place in the world. There are basically two ways of creating / changing / completing the world around us within our human capabilities: through technology, its development and application, and through the upbringing of subsequent generations.[…]
Bóg stworzył świat, który jest dobry, lecz niedokończony. Zostawił swoje dzieło do dokończenia nam ludziom lub raczej do ciągłego jego dokańczania w kontekście zmian, które w świecie zachodzą. W zasięgu naszych ludzkich możliwości leżą zasadniczo dwa sposoby stwarzania / przemiany / dokańczania świata wokół nas: poprzez technologię, jej rozwój i aplikację, oraz poprzez wychowanie kolejnych pokoleń.[…]
Joanna Beata Michlic is a social and cultural historian, and founder and first Director of HBI (Hadassah-Brandeis Institute) Project on Families, Children, and the Holocaust at Brandeis University. She is an Honorary Senior Research Associate at the UCL Centre for the Study of Collective Violence, the Holocaust and Genocide,[…]
The time of Yom Kippur is the time of our confession. We confess our sins together before God as a whole community, because they are not only “our private affairs”, if only because the effects of our offenses are often felt by other people. As Jews, we have also been[…]
Czas Jom kippur to czas naszej spowiedzi. Nasze grzechy wyznajemy przed Bogiem wspólnie, jako cała społeczność, bowiem nie są one wyłącznie “naszymi prywatnymi sprawami”, choćby dlatego, że skutki[…]
Cantor David S. Wisnia has a remarkable voice, and he uses it to tell his remarkable story. He is fluent in multiple languages and received his vocal training in his native Poland as a student of renown Cantors Sirota and Koussevitsky. He served as Cantor of Temple Shalom in Levittown, PA for 28 years, and recently retired after 23 years as Cantor of Har Sinai Congregation of Trenton, NJ. David Wisnia is a member of[…]
