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Are We Guilty of Gross Prejudice Towards Poland?

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Polecamy artykuł Davida Jacobsona oraz dyskusję, znajdującą się pod tekstem http://ejewishphilanthropy.com/are-we-guilty-of-gross-prejudice-towards-poland/| We recommend the full article by David Jacobson and the discussion it provoked below the text at: http://ejewishphilanthropy.com/are-we-guilty-of-gross-prejudice-towards-poland/ In the ashes of Auschwitz we lost more than Jewish lives – we lost an integral part of our historical memory. If we truly want to ensure Jewish continuity for tomorrow’s Jews, then we have to reclaim the positive history of Polish Jewry today. Mention Poland to most Jews and their immediate association is with Auschwitz, Treblinka, Majdanek and the brutal murder…

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Dear Friends, I wanted to share with you an article published in a recent issue of one of the largest daily newspapers in Poland. Its a joint conversation by me and my colleague, the Orthodox Chief Rabbi of Krakow – Rabbi Boaz Pash (you can find it here https://www.beitkrakow.org/2012/08/raba-a-woman-rabbi-translated-article/). I am confident that there are not many other examples of this kind of unique cooperation between the Orthodox and the Reform movements, as we have managed to establish in Krakow. Which is particularily inspiring for me in view of the 150 year anniversary…

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Raba – A Woman Rabbi (translated from Polish by Gina Kuhn)

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  Raba – A Woman Rabbi A Conversation with Tanya Segal, Poland’s first female rabbi, and Boaz Pash, the Chief Rabbi of Kraków By Małgorzata Prochal, translated from Polish by Gina Kuhn The article was published in “Dziennik Polski”, largest regional daily newspaper on August 3rd, 2012     It is still a common belief that a rabbi is a man, usually an older one with a black hat. It’s not everyday that you meet a woman serving this function. Tanya Segal: A woman rabbi is not very common both…

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