by Cyrise Schachter | Aug 9, 2025
Poland Pilgrimage #2 Julie Wolk and I and our crew of courageous journeyers are leaving Krakow today after two very full days beginning our pilgrimage. Yesterday we visited the forced labor/concentration camp of Plasow. Poland has a very complicated...
by Cyrise Schachter | Aug 9, 2025
Poland Pilgrimage #1 It is so incredible to be here in Krakow, Poland getting ready to co-facilitate an Ashkenazi ancestral pilgrimage with my friend and sister-in-spirit, Julie Wolk. The container we have prepared for the past 7 months is now becoming real as the...
by Cyrise Schachter | Aug 1, 2025
I’m on a train rolling through the Austrian Alps. I’m listening to Beethoven’s Archduke Trio as we slip in and out of tunnels— A green, rainy May afternoon appears and then we are plunged back into pitch black. My mind wanders. Who built these tunnels? How many...
by Cyrise Schachter | Jul 29, 2025
Yesterday was the funeral of Hersh Goldberg-Polin in Jerusalem. My broken heart needed to hear the words of his deeply wise and courageous parents in order to properly bless his neshama’s/soul’s aliyah, its ascent. I also needed to bless the body that once held...
