- 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
…n broad limits, as essential to the search for truth. Some religions or philosophies claim to have the truth. In contrast, ours is a religious philosophy that seeks truth. Not all modern expressions of Judaism share this outlook, but this outlook is a mainstream core idea in classical Judaism and in Judaism as we live it today. This is one of the reasons that I believe that the philosophy of Conservative Judaism is the most authentic expression of…
…an nonviolence in Joan V. Bondurant, Conquest of Violence: The Gandhian Philosophy of Conflict, revised edition, (Berkeley: University of California Press) 1965, pp. 36-45. 20. E. Mary Smallwood, “The Chronology of Gauis’ Attempt to Desecrate the Temple,” Latomus (16) 1957, p. 3-4. 21. Bilde, p. 80 and p. 81. 22. Schwartz, Agrippa, p. 93 n. 58. 23. Zeitlin, p. 23. 24. Bilde, p. 81. 25. Stern, Greek and Latin Authors, pp. 29 and 51. 26. Smallwood,…
…of motor vehicle accidents, combat veterans, people who lived through the Los Angeles riots, the Oklahoma City bombings and many other tragedies. While degree of exposure is the greatest predictor, other individual characteristics include a good temperament, secure early attachments and relationships, good education and intelligence, expressive emotional style, family supports and, very importantly for this discussion, the ability to convert the…
…hey are free To keen, to wail, to mourn. Loved by G-d, They can feel their loss, The loss of the man Who stood at the cusp of life and death To save kol ha-eydah. Aaron was not the red heifer. But if Miriam’s death Was a sudden and lonely death In the wilderness, At a time so fragile That no one mourned, Aaron’s death was, like the red heifer’s, A death that purifies: An ending with love, That could be mourned, And that promised a new beginning. S…
…that has brought us to New Haven at this moment. I was born and raised in Los Angeles, the oldest child of two native Angelenos: my mother, an Ashkenazi Jew with roots in Chicago, Vilna, and Trochenbrod, and my father, himself the son of a mestiza immigrant woman from Oaxaca and a white man whose Dust Bowl wanderings had carried him from Oklahoma to LA. I am deeply proud of my Mexican and Jewish background, but as a child and young adult I someti…
…looks like the sketches show fewer seats than we have now. Do we expect to lose seating capacity? We expect to reduce the number of seats on a typical Shabbat — which is not the same as losing seating capacity. A major goal of the redesign is to make the sanctuary feel more intimate. Our current capacity is 332 fixed seats — perhaps one-third of which were typically filled, pre-Covid. The sketches show roughly 200 seats. Since they are all movable…
…r friends, neighbors and families wished to exact.35 Similarly, an unknown number accepted induction but made private arrangements with the administration whereby they could avoid actual combat or use of weapons, or could avoid serving in the occupied territories. At the same time, thousands of others found other ways to avoid the military altogether, through Yeshiva deferments, emigration, and faked medical or psychiatric exemptions.36 Moreover,…
…ew. And if there are no sons, to whom does the inheritance pass? I turn to Numbers Chapter 27, from parshat Pinchas. “The daughters of Zeloph’chad, of Manassite family…they stood before Moses, Eleazar the priest, the chieftains, and the whole assembly, at the entrance of the Tent of Meeting, and they said, (v.3) “Our father died in the wilderness. He was not one of the faction, Korach’s faction, which banded together against the Lord, but died for…
…e Spierer Youth & Family Programming Director Annie Norman-Schiff Ext. 113 BEKI Bulletin bulletin@beki.org Cemetery Association cemetery@beki.org Sisterhood Giftshop giftshop@beki.org Main Office Hours Monday 9:00a to 5:00p Tuesday Working remotely (available by phone 9:00a to 5:00p) Wednesday 9:00a to 5:00p Thursday 9:00a to 5:00p Friday 9:00a to 3:00p Closed on Federal Holidays and major Jewish Festivals (Rosh HaShana, Yom Kippur, Sukkot…
…ed, in part due the desire of some BEKI families to develop a school more closely integrated with the Congregation and more closely projecting its values as a traditional egalitarian Conservative synagogue. Following Rabbi Gertel’s move to a larger and more prominent congregation in Chicago in 1988, Rabbi Steven Kane served the Congregation until 1993, at which time David Sagerman served as president. During those years, Rabbi Kane cultivated the…
