- 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
…na & Sean Lazarus, Shabbat 21-22 June 2013, parashat Balaq Rachel Buckman, child of Ken & Linda Buckman, grandchild of Ivan & Rita Sachs, Sunday 9 June 2013, Rosh Hodesh Tamuz Benjamin Sauberman, child of Marcia Landesman & Oren Sauberman, 24-25 May 2013, parashat BeHa’alotekha Sophia Colodner, child of Lisa Stanger & Greg Colodner, 10-11 May 2013, parashat BeMidbar Yaakov Gottlieb, child of Miriam Feinstein and of Andres Gottlieb, 1-2 March 2013,…
…meet on Friday 24 December 1999 from 8:00a to 2:30p in the Claire Goodwin Children’s Room. The KISS program offers a fun-filled Judaic program for elementary-school aged children on a day when Ezra Academy and public schools are closed for conferences and holidays when parents may have to work. Space is limited. Call Anne Johnston at 389-2108 x33 or email her at ajohnsto@connix.com to reserve your space or fax in the registration form available f…
…a false prophesy? Or was it mercy again? As G-d reached down to that first child to put the mark of Cain on him, the mark of protection, when the intimate G-d leaned down to the face of that first child, did mercy overcome justice? And did that mercy allow the first city to come into being, and music? And did it also – and inevitably – lead to the end of the parsha, when “Adonai saw that the evil of the human creature was great on the earth and th…
…for most services. Adults from member households in good standing are sent tickets in advance; members lacking tickets are asked to inquire. Please contact our office 203.389.2108 x114 office@beki.org or download documents for further information. A schedule is presented below. To purchase tickets online, click here, then scroll down to High Holy Days – Tickets. SECURITY UPDATE: Please know that our High Holy Days team is working hard to make sure…
…for most services. Adults from member households in good standing are sent tickets in advance; members lacking tickets are asked to inquire. Please contact our office 203.389.2108 x114 office@beki.org or download documents for further information. A schedule is presented below. To purchase tickets online, click here, then scroll down to High Holy Days – Tickets. SECURITY UPDATE: Please know that our High Holy Days team is working hard to make sure…
…for most services. Adults from member households in good standing are sent tickets in advance; members lacking tickets are asked to inquire. Please contact our office 203.389.2108 x114 office@beki.org or download documents for further information. A schedule is presented below. To purchase tickets online, click here, then scroll down to High Holy Days – Tickets. SECURITY UPDATE: Please know that our High Holy Days team is working hard to make sure…
…for most services. Adults from member households in good standing are sent tickets in advance; members lacking tickets are asked to inquire. Please contact our office 203.389.2108 x114 office@beki.org or download documents for further information. A schedule is presented below. To purchase tickets online, click here, then scroll down to High Holy Days – Tickets. SECURITY UPDATE: Please know that our High Holy Days team is working hard to make sure…
…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 age without a synagogue observance. Six youths have reserved dates to celebrate bar- or bat-mitz…
…s to uphold. I’m referring to matrilineal descent. If a Jewish woman has a child with a non-Jewish man, that child is considered to be Jewish. But if the opposite is true, and father is Jewish but the mother is not, then according to Conservative and Orthodox doctrine, the child is not Jewish. (The Reform movement has already ruled that Jewish identity can be passed down through the mother and the father equally.) The logic behind this may have ma…
…ggesting a basis for the Jews’ opposition to the placement of the shields, offers a suggestion similar to Levine’s second possibility here, namely that yielding the authority to Pilate to do this would represent the “thin end of the wedge, and that their acceptance would be the prelude to another attempt to introduce iconic objects in Tiberius’ honour.” Perowne, p. 53, offers a unique interpretation of the incident: “…Pilate undertook a major reco…
