Return.
That was my view in the Carpathians. The capital of hisboydedus.
at shul eating breakfast never felt so good. there are few veggie or kosher places in Warsaw.
The Polish Jewish community is supported by a few foundations you may have heard of: Taube/Koret, Lauder and The Joint. These baaley-chesed are the plaques and the symbols. But the kind of dynamic examples of Jewish creativity in Poland, they are here in full force, operating underneath Zionist assumptions about the very essence of Jewish history. The Jewish Culture Festival in Krakow may seem like a minstrel show, but the few Polish and Western Jews who hang around it are just as troubled as you are about that. In Poland, us Jews can feel like Sitting Bull at a sideshow. You can also meet political and cultural activists wearing tzitzis running out a café for mincha. Of course, this person, raised Catholic, may have ‘discovered’ that their grandfather was a Jew and their going a little overboard with the mitzvos. It’s a special community no doubt, but with all that’s going on in Poyln, and all that’s being fought over in ideological and political battles about the identity of the Jews in Tel Aviv and New York, it is definitely among the most unafraid communities I’ve ever experienced. Shacharis is at 7:15, the hospitality is sweet and the history is pretty damn complex.
More to come, working on gathering some things. AGitShabbuhhhhs.
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They’ve even got a Reform rabbi full-time in Warsaw. It’s not the most populous Jewish community out there, but it’s anything but dead.
—David A.M. Wilensky · July 16th, 2010 at 11:53 pm
yea definitely, I was looking forward to checking out the liberal synagogue, but its so far outside the city center, I couldn’t get to it!
—boymlpisher · July 18th, 2010 at 12:38 am
A photo showing a grand total of 6 Jews (I’m assuming they are all Jews).
Now where would anyone get the idea that the Polish Jewish community is virtually dead?
Oh yeah. Mountains. Yup, mountains, too.
—Dave Boxthorn · July 18th, 2010 at 3:30 pm
See what I mean??? hahaha.
—boymlpisher · July 18th, 2010 at 4:08 pm