My dear friend Witold invited Kelley and me to spend Shabbat in his home, along with several others. It was indeed a Shabbat of rest and peace. Shabbat was on the 9th of Av, so the observance was postponed to…
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Aug 15 2022
Aug 15 2022
My dear friend Witold invited Kelley and me to spend Shabbat in his home, along with several others. It was indeed a Shabbat of rest and peace. Shabbat was on the 9th of Av, so the observance was postponed to…
Read moreAug 14 2022
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…
Read moreAug 9 2022
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…
Read moreAug 3 2022
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…
Read moreJul 31 2022
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…
Read moreJul 27 2022
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…
Read moreDec 5 2021
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…
Read moreNov 21 2021
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…
Read moreNov 15 2021
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…
Read moreNov 7 2021
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Shabbat in Zielona Gora
Sundown in Zielona Gora, November 5th, standing in front of yet another marker/monument in Poland. Yet this town was part of Germany when the war began. In this small area, the…
Read moreNov 3 2021
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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