The No Name Theatre (at the Grodzka Gate in Lublin, Poland)

No Name Theatre actorsarrived in Poland with no ideaof the Jewish community that thrived before them. Their performance transformed—into real stories of trauma and tragedy,with glimpses of light.Made whole by glass plate negativesthat restored forgotten faces and celebrations. The Maharshal Synagogue once held 3,500 souls.Jewish neighborhoods teeming Forced exits from the stage of their lives—to Bełżec. To Majdanek.Their world buried beneath parking lots and parks. 43,000 files with their names—some…

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Walking Among Warsaw’s Memory &Monuments

From Day Four of our Charlotte Community Trip Monuments and museums in conversation,stone and story side by side.The Ghetto Uprising’s Heroes and Martyrs Memorialand the Polin Museum,where a thousand years…

A World of Shtetls Stolen—Tykocin

Once, shtetls dotted Poland — now only echoes remain. In 1522, a nobleman’s inkwelcomed ten Jewish families to Tykocin—to build commerce, to build community. A kahal* rose—commerce, culture, a court,…

Visiting What Cannot Be Seen

Warsaw 2025 A beautiful hotelrises where the small Warsaw Ghetto once stood. Beneath us—a graveyard.Six hundred thousand dead from World War II,their bones sometimes unearthedas foundations are laid for the…

Forgiveness Does Not Come Easy

This sermon was delivered on Yom Kippur afternoon at Temple Beth El. It’s so great to be in this sanctuary that I love, with this community that I love. Thank…