- 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
…ough Hoshana Rabba Sun Morning 20 Oct 2019 Beit Midrash Rosh Ḥodesh Elul – Sun 1 Sep 2019 (1 Elul 5779) Shofar Sounded 9:50a (at conclusion of 9:00a service) and at conclusion of each weekday morning thereafter Through Fri Morning 27 Sep 2019 Beit Midrash First Seliḥot Penitential Sat 21 Sep 2019 Selihot Program & Service at BEKI 9p (Program & Selihot) 10:30p Beit Midrash Daily Seliḥot Penitential Daily Pre-Dawn Dawn Through Tue 8 Oct 2019 Home Ri…
…ough Hoshana Rabba Sun Morning 20 Oct 2019 Beit Midrash Rosh Ḥodesh Elul – Sun 1 Sep 2019 (1 Elul 5779) Shofar Sounded 9:50a (at conclusion of 9:00a service) and at conclusion of each weekday morning thereafter Through Fri Morning 27 Sep 2019 Beit Midrash First Seliḥot Penitential Sat 21 Sep 2019 Selihot Program & Service at BEKI 9p (Program & Selihot) 10:30p Beit Midrash Daily Seliḥot Penitential Daily Pre-Dawn Dawn Through Tue 8 Oct 2019 Home Ri…
…ough Hoshana Rabba Sun Morning 20 Oct 2019 Beit Midrash Rosh Ḥodesh Elul – Sun 1 Sep 2019 (1 Elul 5779) Shofar Sounded 9:50a (at conclusion of 9:00a service) and at conclusion of each weekday morning thereafter Through Fri Morning 27 Sep 2019 Beit Midrash First Seliḥot Penitential Sat 21 Sep 2019 Selihot Program & Service at BEKI 9p (Program & Selihot) 10:30p Beit Midrash Daily Seliḥot Penitential Daily Pre-Dawn Dawn Through Tue 8 Oct 2019 Home Ri…
…uth. Israel is small enough that we were able to drive from one end of the country to the other on a single tank of gas. (Small country, small car, big gas tank.) Both my dad and Tsvi especially enjoyed the tank museum (basically a big parking lot for tanks) at Latrun and the (formerly) Syrian and Israeli bunkers in the Golan. A highlight of our travel was a visit with Dr. Elaine Solowey of the Arava Institute at Qibbutz Qetura just north of Eilat…
…ro in the first fifteen years. Press coverage of the project Here Came the Sun, New Haven Independent, 18 September 2007 New Haven Turning Green – with Energy!, Shalom New Haven, Summer 2007, p. 1 Hannukah in the Age of Oil (Video) New Haven Independent, 16 December 2006 (or on YouTube at Solar Rabbi’s Hannukkah Message) Innovative ways to cut heating and cooling costs, by Kent Pierce, WTNH Channel 8 News, 5 September 2006 BEKI Running Clean and G…
…Go into yourself, out of your country and from your house and go into the country that I will show you, you will be a great nation, you will be blessed and you will be a blessing. Genesis 12:1-2 Would you do it? Would you make the choice that would dictate the future of countless individuals? To tell you the truth, I don’t think I would. I wouldn’t believe it was God; I would think I was crazy and get myself a good therapist A.S.A.P. Even if I di…
…nk, To the deaths of Miriam and Aaron. * * * One thing to notice About the number 14,700 Is that it promises reduction: It moves toward its own diminishment. There is a half-life logic to it, An inherent halving: 14 in the thousands category, Then 7, half-14, in the hundreds. In this promise of reduction, We move toward zero, Though we will never reach it. Just after the number of dead is given, Parshat Korach turns suddenly. G-d tells Moses to ta…
….’ Articles of Association were filed with the State of Connecticut on July 1, 1892 as the Congregation Benai Israel. The Congregation purchased a house at 10 Rose Street in 1894, and built a new building during the winter which came to be known as the “Rose Street Shul.” Dues were 10 cents per member household per week. In 1901, under financial stress, the group reorganized as “Congregation Beth Hamedrosh Hagadol B’nai Israel.” It was the largest…
…of all the people. Imagine if the parshah has told us, tribe by tribe, the number of people in each tribe, and separately, the number of males, 20 and up, who were fit for service. Would that kind of census send a different message to us, a message saying, “everyone counts”, including all the women? The second census, what I’ll call the redemption census, I find a strange one. It requires counting of all the male Levites who were at least a month…
…the narrative. The story, as Nahum Sarna observes in his commentary on the Book of Genesis, shows the influence of two literary motifs common to a broad range of cultures—crossing a river, and being attacked by a demon. Since ancient times, and across many cultures, crossing a river has symbolized overcoming danger and going forward to a new adventure or phase of one’s life. There are many tales of river demons or spirits that attack humans who se…
