Another Chelm Story and Ukrainian Fundraising Concert

 

 

 

 


Chelm deserves, as usual, her own blog. Charming and beautiful, yet mysterious and quirky. Arriving there on Friday, we went directly to an apartment to settle in for Shabbos. It was supposed to be on the first floor instead of…

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Dancing the Hora with a Catholic Priest

 

Dancing the Hora with a Catholic Priest 

No, it isn't the start of a joke. Last year I went to the town of Wojlawice near the border of Ukraine. I wrote about it in my blog in November 2021. When…

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Seminar and Concert/Service

 

Kazimierz and Lublin 

We stayed in Radom on Sunday night after the concert in a brand new hotel. It was lovely. Then we traveled the next day to Kazimierz to begin the long-awaited seminar. We started on Tuesday with an…

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First Shabbat in Poland Summer 22

 

First Shabbat in Poland  

We drove back from Ostroviec to Warsaw on Friday and checked in to the hotel. We participated in the March of Remembrance, directly afterward commemorating the deportation of the Warsaw Ghetto's Jews to…

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From Israel to Warsaw

One of the best things I have ever done is to travel to Israel and sit on the beach in Tel Aviv for an entire week. No meetings, no calls--sleep, eat, swim, study, sleep--repeat daily. After that, our trip from…

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Shabbat in Gdansk and Sopot

The train from Krakow to Gdansk/Sopot was almost six hours, but the most comfortable ride ever.  The US Infrastructure bill barely passed, which would provide an opportunity to upgrade our rail system. With food, drinks, internet, and electric outlets, the…

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Shabbat in Kraków

 

Shabbat in Krakow 

Leaving the Kazimierz Dolny area on Wednesday, I was fortunate enough to get a ride to Warsaw and then a few days later to Krakow. The best part about it was that the person who drove, Adam…

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Third Shabbat In Poland

Where to begin? This past Shabbes was a fantastic experience in every way!! Lighting Shabbat candles in the synagogue in Chelm, where there has not been a service for 80 years, was a humbling experience. As I explained the meaning…

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Miecmierz

 

Miecmierz, Poland 

I have been here in Miecmierz for three days, and each day I am working with Marcin Krol on recording new music. It is a blast--he is one of the most incredible violinists that I have ever heard…

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Warsaw Day 7

Another fantastic day in Poland. With limited mobility, I haven't been able to do everything that I wanted, but I still kept pretty darn busy. I met with my new friend Jose  Florenko for coffee, and then we went to…

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