- Congregation Beth El–Keser Israel
85 Harrison Street, New Haven, CT 06515-1724 | P: 203.389.2108 | office@beki.org
85 Harrison Street, New Haven, CT 06515-1724 | P: 203.389.2108 | office@beki.org
…esday Thursday Friday Saturday S M T W T F S 28 9:00 AM – In-person & Zoom Service 5:45 PM – In-person & Zoom Service 29 7:00 AM – In-person & Zoom Service 5:45 PM – In-person & Zoom Service 7:30 PM – General Board Meeting 30 7:00 AM – In-person & Zoom Service 5:45 PM – In-person & Zoom Service 31 7:00 AM – In-person & Zoom Service 5:45 PM – In-person & Zoom Service 1 8:15 AM – In-person & Zoom Service 9:00 AM – Torah Study 5:45 PM – In-person & Z…
…24 Feb A Taste of India (Abraham’s Tent Fundraiser) February 24, 2018 7:30 pm – 10:30 pm Home Page Interior Page A TASTE OF INDIA – revised FINAL FLYER rescheduled More Info…
…isles along both side walls of the sanctuary, along with a center aisle. Chairs Don’t the chairs need holders for chumashim and prayer books? Yes. The software the architect used doesn’t have images of chairs with holders. We’re researching what’s out there and have found several options. We will include chairs with and without armrests, to meet diverse accessibility needs. We’ll also choose chairs that can be attached together, to maintain the ne…
…they have to say, you may have a deeper appreciation of your own heritage. Open discussion is an important part of our religious culture. We are allowed to question. The alternatives to open discussion and truth-seeking are fundamentalism, obscurantism, totalitarianism, mechanical obedience to dogma. Certainty and overconfidence about anything produces bad results; open discussion is better as long as people are constructive and not whining. As a…
…s many either moved away or grew up and went to yeshiva, college, military service, volunteer service, employment or other activities. During the past twenty years, the number of children has grown from under 70 to over 210. Nine youths became benei mitzva in celebrations at BEKI in FY13 (compared to eleven last year and ten the prior year). The nine do not include those who held ceremonies at locations other than the synagogue or who became of ag…
…untry. The small but thriving community did not experience antisemitism in India and, in fact, helped to rescue a number of Jews fleeing Europe in World War II. Conversation with Mark Oppenheimer, jewishledger.com, Nov 25, 2019 Mark Oppenheimer describes himself as a writer, talker, father, husband, dog-owner, and challah baker. Though not necessarily in order of importance. Challah baking aside, the talker in Oppenheimer will get to do just that…
…ve thought they were describing different demonstrations. For example, the number of demonstrators was 1,500, or 2,000, or 3,000, or 5,000, depending on which report was being broadcast. The surprising element of the story is that all four reports were consecutive broadcasts of the same radio station, Qol Yisrael, in Hebrew, English, Arabic and French. Similarly, compare the portrayal of the Indian Salt Strike in the film Gandhi with actual foot…
…organized movement of selective objection, i.e. objection not to military service per se but objection to service in the occupied territories or even, occasionally, objection to service at all in what was now seen as an army engaged in an illegal or immoral occupation.8 As one student, about to be drafted, put it in 1979, “It’s not clear to me which side I’ll be on in the various confrontations with the Palestinians. If I’m told to help put down…
…s tell us Is that 14,700 people died In this sudden plague. It’s a precise number. And it invites immediate comparison To the number we heard just a few verses earlier: Why did only 250 die From Korach’s active rebellion, But 14,700 die For a single line of passive complaint: “You two have brought death on the L-rd’s people.” This single line of lament, Of blame and complaint, May not seem so surprising, or egregious. They had seen Moses tell the…
…t this text. This is from the Mishna, (Sanhedrin 8:1-4), written down about 1800 years ago. They begin by asking a question: A rebellious and disobedient son – when does he become a rebellious and disobedient son? From the age when he can produce two hairs but before he grows a beard…. And then they quote: When a man has a son – this means a son and not a daughter, a son and not a man, and a minor is exempt since he has not as yet entered into the…
