European Routes of Jewish Heritage Incubator 2025
Bologna & Forlì | AEPJ 2025 This month, Helise, Paweł, and Marta represented the Taube Center at the European Routes of Jewish Heritage Incubator in Bologna and Forlì, hosted by the European Association for the Preservation and Promotion of Jewish Heritage and Culture (AEPJ). Highlights included: Exploring Jewish Bologna Participants visited the Jewish Quarter, the […]
TJHTalks #48 — Power of Words. The ABC of Jewish Languages
Languages have always been central to Jewish life — shaping identity, transmitting memory, and connecting communities across time and place. From Hebrew and Yiddish to Ladino, Judeo-Arabic, and many others, Jewish languages reflect the richness and diversity of Jewish experience around the world. Drawing inspiration from the POLIN Museum’s new temporary exhibition Power of Words, […]
An Invitation to Explore, Reflect, and Remember
We are honored to invite you to an extraordinary eight-day journey through Jewish Poland, led by our Scholar-in-Residence, Professor Deborah E. Lipstadt — Distinguished University Professor at Emory University and one of the world’s leading scholars of Holocaust history, antisemitism, and Jewish identity. As a former U.S. Ambassador and Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat […]
Majses x Moadon Workshop at JCC Warsaw
In October, the Taube Center and JCC Warsaw joined forces for a special Majses x Moadon family workshop celebrating the festival of Sukkot. The program brought together families with school-aged children to reflect on the meaning of home in Jewish life and tradition — both as a physical space and as a source of belonging, […]
Mi Dor Le Dor at Ginczanka High School
Building on the success of the Mi Dor Le Dor Europe program, the Taube Center launched a new partnership with the Ginczanka Jewish High School in Warsaw in October 2025. The collaboration is based on an adaptation of the Mi Dor Le Dor methodology—rooted in heritage education and experiential teaching methods—for high school teachers, enabling […]
Bearing Witness to the Past and Present
This October, the Taube Center hosted a meaningful travel study program led by Rabbi Judith Schindler and Judy La Pietra, bringing a group from Charlotte, North Carolina, on a powerful journey through Poland. Over ten days, participants walked in the footsteps of history — visiting Warsaw, Lublin, Tykocin, Majdanek, Kraków, and Auschwitz — exploring Jewish […]
Chag Sameach!
A timeless celebration of learning and life. Simchat Torah — the festival marking both the end and the beginning of reading the weekly portions of the Torah. There is no pause between the last words of Deuteronomy and the first words of Genesis — it’s a seamless continuation. The Torah scrolls are carried in circles […]
A a festival in its own right
A day of prayer for rain, sustenance, and renewal. May peace and healing take root. Shemini Atzeret, often considered the last day of Sukkot, is in fact a festival in its own right. In the synagogue, special prayers are recited for rain (geshem) and for those who have passed away (yizkor). We join in welcoming […]
Sukkot
Sukkot belongs to the cycle of Shalosh Regalim (Three Pilgrimages), i.e., a group of holidays characterized in ancient times by the pilgrimage of Jews to the Temple in Jerusalem. The Sukkah The heart of the holiday is the sukkah — a temporary hut built under the open sky. According to tradition, it must have at […]