Rabbi Haim Dov Beliak

Rabbi Haim Dov Beliak President of Friends of Jewish Renewal in Poland, Hospice Chaplain, Congregational rabbi. My work focuses on offering comfort and insight to people.

I have devoted myself to the revival and flourishing of congregations around the world, most recently Beit Polska, the umbrella organization of ten Progressive communities that grew out of Beit Warszawa in post-Communist Poland. In America, we are supported by Friends of Jewish Jewish Renewal in Poland and the World/European for Progressive Judaism. My intensified engagement with out-of-way congre

gations began when I travelled to a community founded in the 1640s in Parimaribo, Suriname. For the last seven years, I have served as spiritual counselor for a Jewish-inspired palliative and hospice center, Skirball Hospice. I also frequently help patients develop life summary videos and ethical wills. The Skirball work is spiritually rewarding engagement. Currently I serve as the Rabbi of a progressive synagogue, Congregation Beth Ohr in Studio City, CA. Earlier, I served for 19 years as Chaplain and Hillel Rabbi for The Claremont Colleges. I received my smicha (ordination) from Hebrew Union College specializing in Cairo Genizah documents in Judeo-Arabic. I have studied the history of the Holocaust at Hebrew University in Jerusalem and also Higher Education at The Claremont Graduate University. From 1988 to 1990 I worked as a Mandel Jerusalem Fellow. I did my undergraduate work at Occidental College. I am the founder and spiritual leader of the Mifgash (HaMifgash), a gathering of adult learners who pursue Jewish learning and seek to apply it to the pressing issues of the day.

05/03/2026

WEBINAR: Zygmunt Bauman was one of the great social thinkers of our time: the inventor of the idea of “liquid modernity.” Bauman transformed our thinking about the social conditions shaping our lives today. His own life was shaped by the great social forces that scarred the second half of the tw...

04/17/2026

Thoughts on Parashat Tazria-Metzorah 5786 This Shabbat, as we read the combined portion Parashat Tazria-Metzora (Leviticus 12:1–15:33) and celebrate Rosh Chodesh Iyar, we turn to the section in Leviticus 14:21–32 that details the purification ritual for a healed metzora who is poor.[...]

04/03/2026

The Rabbi Mirski Show – Episode 18Leave Your Bubble… Without Changing Your Beliefs. In this episode, Rabbi Menachem Mirski explores one of the biggest challe...

03/27/2026

Thoughts on Parashat Tzav 5786 We have Shabbat HaGadol this week. This Great Shabbat stands just days before Pesach, our festival of liberation. Parashat Tzav begins with one strong word: Tzav – “Command!” God says to Moshe: “Command Aaron and his sons…” (Vayikra 6:2). This command focus...

03/13/2026

WEBINAR: In the early twentieth century, when the dream of Jewish cultural nationalism in the Diaspora was growing among champions for Yiddish, its leading intellectuals included the “Yiddish historians” who helped to uncover the history of East-European Jews. Before the Holocaust, their mission...

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