- 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
…500, or 2,000, or 3,000, or 5,000, depending on which report was being broadcast. The surprising element of the story is that all four reports were consecutive broadcasts of the same radio station, Qol Yisrael, in Hebrew, English, Arabic and French. Similarly, compare the portrayal of the Indian Salt Strike in the film Gandhi with actual footage taken at the time. Moreover note that Philo’s account is explicitly written for a polemic purpose, i….
…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…
…Heritage Fund to further its efforts in family education and synagogue transformation through the issues related to solar energy and conservation. By 2016, most of the congregation’s electricity use was produced on its own roof-top arrays. The breadth and quality of Shabbat and weekday programs for children and youth expanded, as the number of minors in the Congregation grew from under 70 in 1994 to over 225 a decade later. A typical Shabbat morn…
…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,…
…nuity. When Joanne and I married some 15 years ago, when we were living in Washington, she was a completely unobservant Jew and I was a Boston Brahmin. (Score one for assimilation, it would have seemed.) To Joanne’s bemusement, however, I converted to Judaism about three years later. Joanne watched tolerantly but warily as I began to observe ancient practices that she found mildly unsettling. Although she was willing to light candles on Shabbat, s…
…to Woodbridge in mid-2022 and are enjoying “country” living and taking their granddaughters back and forth to school, shul, and home, and entertaining their grandsons from Washington, DC (think choo-choo trains, Legos, and forts). Mike and Lisa are excited to be a part of the BEKI Community!…
…141; Horodezky, p. 127. The rest of the story, however, is confusing and does not necessarily support this position. 19. United States Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigations, Uniform Crime Reports for the United States, 1984 (Washington, DC: USGPO), 1985, p. v. 20. Ben-Amos & Mintz, Tale 160; Horodezky, p. 25. 21. Mishna Avot 4:2. 22. Ben-Amos & Mintz, Tale 148; Horodezky, p. 141. 23. Sukkah 29b-30a; Berakhot 47b; Baba Qama 94a. 2…
…Money Income in the United States: 2001, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2002.) Even more: On the global level, I am in the top 1%. So when I say that the rich should pay, I am including myself. When we share our spiritual, financial and other blessings with others and consequently see their Hanuka lights — or their Holiday Candles — glowing in their windows, then we are truly fulfilling the mandate of Hanuka: Pirsuma Nesa, Procl…
…fate of a Jew. Hence the law admits to Israel the spouse, children and grandchildren of a Jew, including their spouses, as long as they are not a member of another faith community. What kept these two definitions of Jewishness (by faith and fate) from flying apart was a Zionist Chief Rabbinate that made conversion easy. Today , unfortunately, the office and its rabbinic courts have fallen into the hands of the ultra-Orthodox, who ruthlessly conspi…
Phone: 203.389.2108 Fax: 203.389.5899 Postal Address: Congregation Beth El-Keser Israel 85 Harrison St. New Haven CT 06515-1724 Office Manager Peggy Hackett Ext. 114 Education Director Annie Norman-Schiff Ext. 113 President Russell Epstein Rabbi Eric Woodward Ext. 120 Ritual Committee Chairperson Bruce Spierer Youth & Family Programming Director Annie Norman-Schiff Ext. 113 BEKI Bulletin bulletin@beki.org Cemetery Association cemetery@beki….
