- 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
…ter. USY Events 2019-2020 ddddddd USY and Kadima Calendar October events: 16th: Pizza in the hut November: 17th: USY pie baking/sleepover event 20th: Pie pickup December: 15th: Latke making (USY and Kadima) January: 15th: food/coat drive to give to homeless shelter (USY & Kadima) February: 9th: Abraham’s Tent set up (USY and Kadima) 12th: Discussion of the patriarchs and matriarchs of Judaism (USY) 16th: Discussion of the various leaders of Isra…
Kadima and United Synagogue Youth (USY) are youth groups that empower Jewish middle-schoolers (Kadima: 4-8) and high-schoolers (USY: 7-12) to plan and participate in educational, religious, community service, and social events. BEKI Kadima and USY is an inclusive youth group open to all Jewish youth, regardless of synagogue affiliation. Kadima & USY events are planned at the local (New Haven area), regional (Connecticut and Western Massachusetts…
…r the movement. The various institutions, such as the Rabbinical Assembly, United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism, Cantors Assembly, Seminario Rabinico Latinoamericano, Jewish Theological Seminary, Zeigler School, and the rest, may individually or collectively address the issues of how we deal with Gay and Lesbian Jews. The papers endorsed by the Committee give some food for thought, but there is no force-feeding. There is not a satisfying meal,…
…st of them moved into more aristocratic neighborhoods. The family grew from 19 families to 350. By the time we hope to move into the new Temple on Chapel and Sherman Avenue [in 1950] we fully expect to be 400 strong. It is fitting to recall the devoted service which was given to the Synagogue during the so-called Foote Street years when the following gentlemen served one after another as presidents of Keser Israel: Samuel Kaletsky, Hyman Avrutin,…
…and the second half refers to the end of days, when all the world will be united in worship of one God: “Ba-yom ha-hu, yehiye Adonai ehad u-shemo ehad — On that day, the Lord will be one, and His name one.” According to a midrash on the Shema, God described His singularity this way: “My children, everything that I have created has been created in pairs: heaven and earth, the sun and the moon, Adam and Eve, this world and the world to come. But My…
…on the issue of land — were exacerbated. The Ottoman Land Codes and Laws of 1858 and 1859, then, were issued in order to assure state control over the lands of Palestine and to increase state revenues from those lands. For a variety of reasons much of the cultivated or occupied land was never registered or was registered in the name of someone other than the individual or collective that actually worked it. The resulting concentration of land owne…
…ll of us can live in 602 square feet?” (Jerusalem Report, 30 March 2009, p. 13). (For reference, BEKI’s George G. Posener Daily Chapel is about 1,000 square feet.) Farmer Ahmed might also find that another Israeli Arab family is already working “his” land, or that his former farmland is now a fish pond, highway interchange or shopping mall. In the past 60 years, Israel has become about as developed as Connecticut. The world has changed. In short,…
…ky (“A Natural History of Peace,” Foreign Affairs, January/February 2006 p. 104), they live as a collection of small groups, each one an individual node. In this networked society, most of the interactions between individual nodes are local ones. The further away any two given groups are. the less frequently they interact, but they do retain the ability to communicate. This network, when properly balanced, produces highly cooperative clusters of i…
March 1 – May 18, 2024 Suggested Donation amounts for Art Collectors The current exhibition in the lower level Gallery at BEKI is a collection of works depicting “Jews at prayer,” “Jews studying,” “Jews celebrating,” and “pious Jews.” The exhibition is drawn from artworks donated to BEKI throughout the years, some as permanent gifts, most as donations for fundraisers. Frequently entitled “Rabbi _,” the majority of these works are representation…
…familiar symbolic images embedded as decorative elements. “All That Remains” will next be presented at the Virginia Holocaust Museum, Richmond, VA, in October 2020. The works in this show include images from each of these series. In this retrospective of her work, a number of works in private collections are represented by photographic reproductions, thus providing context for the entirety of exhibition. for more information and for purchasing wor…
