- 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
…29 Aug Kadima Reverse Tashlikh River Cleanup August 29, 2021 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm BEKI Kids page Home Page Interior Page Get into the spirit of the month of Elul, as we prepare for the High Holidays by cleaning up our local community. This is Kadima’s […] More Info…
…01 Apr First Fridays at Five-Thirty – Kabbalat Shabbat (in-person) April 1, 2022 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm BEKI Kids page Home Page Interior Page A New Approach to Kabbalat Shabbat. On the first Friday of April, Kabbalat Shabbat services will happen at 5 pm, a more kid-friendly time. Organizer […] More Info…
…06 May First Fridays at Five-Thirty – Kabbalat Shabbat (in-person) May 6, 2022 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm BEKI Kids page Home Page Interior Page A New Approach to Kabbalat Shabbat. On the first Friday of April, Kabbalat Shabbat services will happen at 5 pm, a more kid-friendly time. Organizer […] More Info…
…mandment 613” Miriam Lewin and Rabbi Kevin Hale December 23, 2020 T’chiah: Spirit and Fire Leslie Klein December 9, 2020 Debt, Torah, and Bankruptcy Law Corey Stone December 2, 2020 Discussion of “I Am Not Your Negro” Facilitated by Jennifer Klein and Jim Berger November 11, 2020 BEKI USY vs Chess Master Jim Eade Jim Eade, Noam Benson-Tilsen, Aaron Bruce, Caleb Freiman, and Ethan Lavi November 4, 2020 Getting Personal: Yaron Lew Talks about Growin…
…dscapes of Israel summer 2022 Naomi Safran-Hon April – July 2022 Suzanne Neusner: Fiber Arts April – June 2022 BEKI Ancestors 2021 High Holiday exhibition Bruce Oren: Entropy Warriors: 50 year Retrospective January – March 2022 2020-2021 5781 2019-2020 5780 Leslie J. Klein: Spirit and Fire, A Retrospective Exhibition mid-January– June, extended due to gallery closure for the Pandemic Richard McBee: Paintings about the Binding of Isaac: Akeidah Ver…
…13 Aug Chapel on the Green August 13, 2017 9:45 am – 3:30 pm Home Page BEKI Social Action/Tikkun Olam volunteers will prepare individually wrapped items for distribution to those in need outdoors on the New Haven Green. Cold food prep […] More Info…
…y of Shabbat and weekday programs for children and youth expanded, and the number of minors grew from under 70 in 1994 to over 225 a decade later. A typical Shabbat morning includes simultaneous programs or services for children and youth, as well as youth participating in the main service and Shabbat Shalom Torah Study. In 2003, the congregation began a process of building renovations, aimed at improving accessibility, enhancing energy efficiency…
…cities of Greece, and even twentieth century America? Surveying the large number of works in the BEKI collection entitled “Rabbi_,” the BEKI Art Committee began discussing how best to present this work in an exhibition. Among ourselves, we called this the “Rabbi Show,” although there is nothing in the artworks themselves to signify that these are rabbis, rather than ordinary men who have been given the honor of holding the Torah. As Jewish artist…
…that Arab expulsion of Palestinian Arabs from Kuwait is more than half the number of Palestinian Arabs who fled or were expelled from Israel in 1947-49. The “Jenin Massacre” (2002) turned out to be a hoax; while it was reported that hundreds or thousands had been massacred, the reality was that about 55 Arabs (including 5 or 10 civilians) died, along with 22 Israeli soldiers. The headline story in mid-August (2009) of the Swedish daily Aftonbladen…
…nsgresses a prohibition, as Scripture states, “Do not add [to the required number of lashes]” — if the Torah warns not to add blows to a guilty person, how much more does this apply to an innocent person. Even to raise one’s hand against another, even if one doesn’t actually hit him or her, is called wicked, as Scripture states, “And he said to the wicked one, Why do you hit your neighbor?”7 Rabbenu Perez, in his decree, cites a responsum of Rabbi…
