Yehiel poupko biography samples

I’ve spent 20 years learning from leaders of other faith traditions, but until I accompanied a group of evangelical Christian leaders on an interfaith mission to Poland last month, I never fully appreciated the profound role these friendships could have in Jewish life. 

The group was organized by Rabbi Yehiel Poupko, a rabbinic scholar of the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago, and Dr.

Philip Ryken, president of Wheaton College, who brought 25 Christian and six Jewish leaders on this journey to Poland to learn about Jewish history, antisemitism, and the Holocaust. Together, we learned about the Polish-Jewish population, which now numbers less than 5,000, reduced from a pre-war total of 3.3 million due to mass murder – and later, pogroms, purges, and systemic discrimination in the Soviet system.

Together, we visited Auschwitz, Majdanek, and Treblinka. 

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