We warmly invite you to join the concert prepared by the Jewish Progressive community in Lviv. Congregation TEYVA is a home to several groups performing Yiddish music, including Sheyne Meydelekh Ensemble, Shtrudle Band & Mames un Tekhter Quartet. The Teyva community,[…]
Kielce Lecture and Concert
Good evening. I bring you greetings from my home city Los Angeles, with one of the largest Jewish populations in the world, approx.. 600,000! And I feel honored to share this solemn remembrance of the 1946 Kielce Pogrom with you. Music has always had healing powers and I hope that our program of classical music for violin, cello and piano will have a transformative and comforting effect for us.[…]
BOGDAN’S JOURNEY: Memory, Reconciliation and Healing
BOGDAN’S JOURNEY: a new documentary film about murder and mayhem–and 70 years later—about memory, reconciliation and healing. Kielce, Poland was the site of Europe’s last pogrom. In 1946, a year after WWII ended, townspeople killed 40 holocaust survivors seeking shelter in a downtown building, and injured 80 more around the city. After the pogrom, as […]
Exclusive Screening, Bogdan’s Journey at Wilshire Blvd Temple
Sometimes a documentary film is the perfect vehicle for difficult issues of discussion. Wilshire Boulevard Temple in conjunction with Friends of Jewish Renewal in Poland, Beit Polska and Two Points Film Present an Exclusive Screening of Bogdan’s Journey Bogdan Bialek, a Catholic Pole, journalist, and psychologist engaged the people of Kielce, Poland in addressing the […]
Musical Miracles
Join Friends of Jewish Renewal in Poland and Beit Polska for a wonderful series of musical events highlighting the emergence of renewed Jewish life in Poland. Meet two visiting cantorial soloists from Poland, Avigail Geniusz and Dr. Menachem Mirski. They are joined by a host of talented musicians and singers including Cindy Paley, Rabbi Neil […]
An Invitation to a Musical Miracle
Friends Of Jewish Renewal In Poland & Beit Polska Present: Featuring Two Of Poland’s Progressive Jewish Cantorial Soloists – Menachem Mirski and Avigail Geniusz Menachem Mirski, a recent Ph.D. from Poland’s Lublin University, is now attending American Jewish University’s Ziegler Rabbi School. He is also an outstanding vocalist, guitarist, composer and klezmer musician. Avigail Geniusz is […]