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Russian Subbotnik Jews celebrate holiday of Tu B'Shvat in Israel
Starfruit and strawberries for Tu B'Shvat
Starfruit and strawberries for Tu B'Shvat
  
Tu B'Shvat - the Jewish holiday familiar to every Israeli from kindergarten on up as the "New Year for the Trees" - is not so well known among the Subbotnik Jewish community of Russia. 
 
So, on January 15, 2014, Shavei Israel sponsored a festive Tu B'Shvat party for the Subbotnik Jews who live in the Land of Israel. Held in Beit Shemesh - where the majority of the community is based - there were plenty of fruits and nuts: dried apricots and figs; various shapes and colors of olives; almonds, cashews, cranberries, strawberries, and even some decoratively cut up star fruit. 
 
 

 

Shavei Israel emissary to Krakow Rabbi Avi Baumol revisits his Polish roots
Old synagogue in Tarnow

Shavei Israel's new emissary to Krakow, Rabbi Avi Baumol, has deep Polish roots. His great-grandfather, a scion of a rabbinic family which goes back tens of generations throughout Poland, was ordained with rabbinical semicha at the tender age of just 13. His grandfather received semicha himself from the last chief rabbi of the Jewish community of Tarnow. So it's not surprising that their descendent, Avi, would return to Poland in a leadership role.

  

Rabbi Baumol has written an article about his moving experience lighting the sixth candle of Hanukah in Tarnow - a city that today has no Jews and only a relic of the main synagogue, which was destroyed by the Nazis during the Holocaust. And yet Tarnow, surprisingly, has an extremely active "Committee for the Protection of Monuments of Jewish Culture" run for 32 years now by a non-Jewish resident of Tarnow. Together, they organized the candle lighting, the first led by a rabbi since the community was decimated during World War II. 

 

Click here to read Rabbi Baumol's story.  

Roots #132- Jan. 28, 2014 

 

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