- 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
…asting the worthiness of a day-old gourd plant with that of Nineveh and its 120,000 innocent inhabitants. The book doesn’t tell us whether or how Jonah responds. * * * If the cycle of talking-to-God-about-punishment stories culminates in the Book of Job, what lessons does that book offer for atonement? One lesson hearkens back to the Yom Kippur injunction to become at-one with other people before seeking to become at-one with God. Our central pray…
…ermine the minds of the future.” (Morris B. Abram, “In Pursuit of Justice,” 13 May 1996.) The inclusion of the dissenting opinions in the record was considered an essential element of any Jewish legal text in the first millenium of the common era. But some eight hundred years ago, Moses Maimonides, the Rambam, broke the mold with the publication of his law code Mishne Torah. In his concise Hebrew, the Rambam systematized much of the known body of…
…e 43; Horodezky, pp. 107-108. 14. Ben-Amos & Mintz, Tale 158; Horodezky, p. 144. 15. Ben-Amos & Mintz, Tale 87; Horodezky, pp. 117-118. 16. Ben-Amos & Mintz, Tale 201; Horodezky, p. 65. 17. Ben-Amos & Mintz, Tale 21; Horodezky, p. 127. 18. Ben-Amos & Mintz, Tale 141; Horodezky, p. 127. The rest of the story, however, is confusing and does not necessarily support this position. 19. United States Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigatio…
…habbat mornings for people of all ages. Our regular attendance is typically 110 to 150. No other shul in our region compares to the quality of our programs. Just eighteen years ago, most Shabbat morning services were held in the Daily Chapel (capacity 45). All of the davening (prayer leading), Torah reading, and Divrei Torah (sermons) are done by congregants, with the exception of occasional special guests. We are a “learning congregation” in the…
…g aside, the talker in Oppenheimer will get to do just that on Sunday, Dec. 15, 10 a.m., at Congregation Beth El-Keser Israel in New Haven, when he is guest speaker at a book talk and brunch celebrating publication of his new book The Newish Jewish Encyclopedia, which he co-authored with Stephanie Butnick and Liel Leibovitz. Synagogue Denied 65 Square Feet Of Light, newhavenindependent.org, Sep 18, 2019 And New Haven’s zoning board proclaimed: Let…
…ven’s Conservative Jewish Day School, will join together on Shabbat morning 14 June 1997 for the Ezra Academy Shabbat at BEKI. Worship with the Congregation on that morning and take pride in the students of our Conservative school. Torah Pathways Adult Education Torah Pathways is a discussion and study group which serves as part of a basic Judaism course. Special attention is placed on issues of concern to those considering conversion or in interf…
…p. I 386. 9. Louis H. Feldman, trans., Josephus, (Cambridge: Harvard Univ.) 1965, 1969. 10. Rhoads, p. 61. 11. Stuart Perowne, The Later Herods, (London: Hodder and Stoughton) 1958,p. 51. 12. E. Mary Smallwood, trans., Philonis Alexandrini: Legatio ad Gaium, (Leiden: E.J. Brill) 1961. 13. Solomon Zeitlin, “Did Agrippa Write a Letter to Gaius Caligula?” Jewish Quarterly Review (56) 1986/66, p. 27. Zeitlin writes: “Upon careful examination of the le…
…d `al saf hagiyus” Hotem, 1 Feb. 1980, p. 3. 10. For example, see Blatt, p. 112. 11. Blatt, pp. 116-118. 12. New York Times, 1 Aug. 1982, p. 12:3. On the Eli Geva story, see for example New York Times, 27 July 1982, p. 8:6, and 29 July 1982, p. 14:3. 13. For the text of the letter see Ishai and Dina Menuhin, eds., Gevul Hatzivut (The Limits of Obedience), (Tel Aviv: The “Yesh Gvul” Movement and Siman Kri’a Books, 1985), p. 175. The letter, while c…
…ene. Each member of the household has their own Hanukia, and each lights a number of lights corresponding to the number of the day of the holiday. We are fortunate that we are able to do this mitzva in such a complete and beautiful way. But what of the poor person who can not afford all of this “hidur mitzva” but must struggle to light even one lamp? The Mishna Berura, written at the beginning of the twentieth century by the Hafetz Hayim, comments…
…ough Hoshana Rabba Sun Morning 20 Oct 2019 Beit Midrash Rosh Ḥodesh Elul – Sun 1 Sep 2019 (1 Elul 5779) Shofar Sounded 9:50a (at conclusion of 9:00a service) and at conclusion of each weekday morning thereafter Through Fri Morning 27 Sep 2019 Beit Midrash First Seliḥot Penitential Sat 21 Sep 2019 Selihot Program & Service at BEKI 9p (Program & Selihot) 10:30p Beit Midrash Daily Seliḥot Penitential Daily Pre-Dawn Dawn Through Tue 8 Oct 2019 Home Ri…
