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14-09-2016

The study trip for Jewish leaders from the U.S. took place between September 5-12. Participants went on a tour of Warsaw and city’s Jewish sites, visited POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews and Żabiński’s Villa at the Warsaw ZOO. They met for discussions with Agata Rakowiecka, director of JCC Warsaw, Magdalena Dorosz director of Hillel Warsaw and Karolina Szykier-Koszucka, coordinatior of Ec Chaim Progressive Community Center of Warsaw Jewish Community, as well as with Piotr Buras, Head of the European Council on Foreign Affairs and Paweł Dobrosielski, a PhD candidate at the Institute of Polish Culture of the University of Warsaw. One of the highlights of the trip was a Shabbat dinner held in Rabka Zdrój where the trip participant together with with local Leaders of Dialogue, their families and invited guests gathered for a shabbat reflection, sang some prayers, and lit the candles. An evening full of touching moments for all present there. The next day, they met again to visit Jewish sites of Rabka Zdrój. During the trip, participants also had a wonderful opportunity to meet with the students of School of Dialogue in Chęciny, and guided by young boys and girls, walked following the footsteps of the local Jewish community. Kraków was the last stop of the study visit.