- 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
…ve Judaism through Contemporary Prooftexts,” Dr. Rela Mintz Geffen, Rabbinical Assembly, 2000 “Big Bang, God and Torah: A New View,” Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson, Rabbinical Assembly, 2000 “Contemporary Ethical Reflections on Identity, Community and Tradition: A Textual Study,” Dr. Kenneth Koltun-Fromm, Rabbinical Assembly, 2000 “An Introduction to Current Literary Approaches to Reading of Biblical Narrative: The Book of Ruth” Dr. Edward Greenstein…
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…During the 42 years of Israeli rule, the Arab population has grown dramatically. More Palestinian Arabs have been killed by Arabs (mostly by other Arab residents of Palestine, but also in other countries) than by Israelis. Most of the Arabs killed by Israelis in this period were engaged in violent armed actions at the time of their deaths. If the Israeli policy is ethnic cleansing, then they have done a very poor job of it. While overall populati…
…diation services.³ This striving for reconciliation is shown on a metaphysical or abstract level when the Besht confronts an evil spirit: Then the Besht said to the spirit: “Look what you have done. My advice to you is to leave this woman without causing any difficulty and all of us will study on your behalf.”4 Instead of calling in the Ghost Busters or threatening the spirit, the Besht successfully talks the spirit out of its evil ways and out of…
…running in the family, although I would say that is a part of it. It’s actually also another motion to overthrow the custom at that time of the first-born getting the better blessing and inheritance. This is taking off from Isaac’s switched blessings, when he is tricked into giving the younger son, Jacob, the first-born’s, Esav’s, greater blessing. As Jews, we stick to the idea that if there’s a custom, social institution, or law we think is wrong…
…. Not merely good deeds, but laws; not suggestions, but the obligations we call The Commandments. Many of these laws regulate the ceremonies of the tabernacle and Temple, and therefore are no longer observed. Others apply only in the land of Israel, such as agricultural tithes called ma’aser, or resting the land in the seventh year, called shmita. Still others speak to us today as Jews and equally as Americans, as modern men and women. These ancie…
…nd is about 70 feet (21 meters) above sea level. Candle lighting times are calculated for that location and are rounded back to the nearest minute so the lighting time will be 18 to 19 minutes before the halakhic (Jewish legal) definition of sunset. The halakhic sunset will be about one minute later than civil sunset. If you are within New Haven or its surrounding towns your recommended lighting time will be within a minute of the time listed belo…
…Arabs in Damascus or Beirut; others farmed communal lands registered to local sheikhs. Few had clear land ownership records. In 1949, many farmers fled to avoid the war or at the urging of Arab leaders; some were chased out by the Irgun or Hagana. In the 1950s, Israel assigned unused farmland in the north to remaining Arab families. In the intervening 60 years, the population of displaced Palestinian Arabs has skyrocketed. This is partly because…
…e as rabbis in the Conservative Movement. The other paper affirms the Biblical ban on homosexual acts, provides a basis for excluding “avowed” homosexuals from the rabbinate, and does not allow for any ceremonial or legal recognition of same-sex couples under Jewish law. The CJLS discussed a set of issues relating to the treatment of Gay and Lesbian Jews and endorsed multiple positions, which are mutually inconsistent, indeed contradictory. For th…
…nue to judge weighty cases and those which required Moshe’s expertise. Basically, each small outer court would act as one node, and together all of the outer courts, or nodes, would make up a semi-centralized network, taking the pressure off of Moshe. The point is, instead of having an inefficient single judicial authority, the network of lower courts would distribute the authority and the work. Now — the monkeys! The Hamadryas baboons inhabit Eth…
