Legacy

HaMaqom mourns a Jewish hero, Joseph Pell, who passed away December 30, 2020, at the age of 96. The sole survivor of a family of seven, he fled his Polish shetl during the Nazi occupation, joined a brave brigade of Soviet partisans, and fought back from the forests. ...
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This Hanukkah, 100 years after the Frankfurt Lehrhaus was founded, and 82 years after it was shuttered by the Nazis, we at HaMaqom | The Place are once again rekindling the light of Lehrhaus here in the Bay Area. Just as the Menorah in the Jerusalem Temple was rekindled on Hanukkah all those years ago, so too we take time this Hanukkah to honor the Lehrhaus legacy and rededicate ourselves to its founding vision of placing humility at the center of the Jewish educational project ...
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Perhaps the Frankfurt Lehrhaus and its environment seem familiar to us today—an assimilated Jewish community of people searching for a Jewish identity, an adult school trying to meet that need based on non-denominational pluralism, a very broad spectrum of offerings, an inclusive faculty both of established scholars and knowledgeable, inspired laypeople, and above all, a pedagogy based on dialogue, the invaluable interchange between teacher and student and among the students themselves ...
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