- 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
…ing the year in the local, Jewish and national press. See “The Shul in the News” at www.beki.org/newsindex.html. Youth Programs Nine Benei Mitzva Observances Contingent of 18 Attend Camp Ramah Shabbat & Festival Children’s Programs Thrive Youth in Israel BEKI boasts award-winning Kadima and USY youth groups. Fifty percent of the Regional Board members are BEKI youth. President Shayna Weinstein, with commissioners Rena Cheskis-Gold and others invol…
…urns to favorite traditions that weren’t possible last year, while finding new ways to connect, serve the world, and have fun. After a year of adapting to services outdoors, BEKI has restored its three separate children’s services every Shabbat morning. Rosh Hashana brings bright future to New Haven synagogue and new rabbi: It was ‘meant to be’, nhregister.com, Sep. 5, 2021 [NOTE: article is behind a paywall] Rabbi Eric Woodward plans to encourage…
…dota Heights, Minnesota, Rabbi Tilsen is a graduate of Columbia College in New York, where he studied Political Science and Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures. He received a Masters degree and Rabbinic ordination from the Jewish Theological Seminary in 1991. The Leah E. Posener and Betty D. Zelen Memorial Fund for the Benefit of Congregation Beth El–Keser Israel Sisterhood The Leah E. Posener and Betty D. Zelen Memorial Fund for the Benefit of…
…re known to have served time in jail rather than in Lebanon.15 In May, the New York Times cited an Israeli source as saying that hundreds of refusers had been spared jail by the government to avoid publicity.16 At the same time, there were cases of people who for reasons of conscience served jail terms but avoided publicity and were not counted in the “official” enumeration.17 Most terms were for the length of call-up, typically 28 days. Daniel Ti…
…nie and Sarah Bass, Sandy and Isaac Johnston. You did a great job! Library News New Acquisitions for Ari Nathan Levine Children’s Library, made possible through the generosity of Rabbi Murray Levine Castle on Hester Street David and Max* Plots and Prayers All New Jewish Quiz Book Buba Leah and her Paper Children Celebrations Dear Elijah Elie Wiesel: Voice of Humanity* God Send a Rainbow and other stories Great Jewish Quiz Book Heeding Call Honis C…
…y before he was to take the stand, he was visited by Orthodox leaders from New York who impressed upon him the negative consequences to his career of testifying that mixed seating was acceptable in “orthodox” congregations. Rabbi Rackovsky announced that he was unable to testify. This prompted Judge O’Sullivan to recommend that a settlement be sought. Cantor Jordan Ofseyer The minority faction, ultimately representing about a dozen families, was g…
…Notes 1. Dan Ben-Amos and Jerome R. Mintz, In Praise of the Baal Shem Tov (New York: Schocken Books) 1970, 1984, p. 4; corresponding to the Hebrew edition of Samuel Aba Horodezky, Sefer Shivhei HaBesht (Tel Aviv: Devir) 5707/1947, 5735/1975, p. 35. A table of tale numbers and the corresponding page numbers in other editions is given at the back of the book by Ben-Amos and Mintz. 2. Violence is neither advocated nor condoned in these tales to any s…
…more fastidious about bodily cleanliness than men. Anecdotal evidence: The New York Times reported recently (23 September 2003, John O’Neil, “Hygiene: The Filthy Truth About the Hands”) that “in airport bathrooms … In five American cities, only 70 percent of men and 80 percent of women washed their hands.” If it is demonstrable that women are at least as clean as men, then the ruling of that medieval German rabbi has no bearing on our community, a…
…commercial and residential projects. As an active shul-goer in Riverdale, New York, Michael understands synagogue life and what Jewish congregations look for in a sanctuary. Raised in Stamford, he has attended services at BEKI. The firm is based in New York City, but Michael has worked on several projects in Connecticut, including a historic restoration of the Washington Building, at 39 Church Street in downtown New Haven. How much will this proj…
…itings on the Theory and Practice of Non-violent Resistance, (Garden City, New York: Doubleday and Co.) 1963, p. 111.) 5. E. Mary Smallwood, The Jews Under Roman Rule from Pompey to Diocletian, (Leiden: E.J. Brill) 1981, p. 155. 6. Paul L. Maier, “The Episode of the Golden Shields at Jerusalem,” Harvard Theological Review (62) 1969, p. 110 n. 5, as well as Emil Schurer, The History of the Jewish People in the Age of Jesus Christ, rev. and ed. by G…
