- 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
…r, www.newhavenindependent.org, April 15, 2019 In one hand he had his cell phone, with mom on the line for shopping advice. In the other hand was a handout with a Westville rabbi’s admonition against crossing a picket line to buy food for the Feast of Freedom. His basket was empty. There David stood amid walls of macaroons, white fish, and grape juice in Aisle 13 of the Amity Stop & Shop, pondering the fifth question added to this year’s tradition…
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…the 10th century B.C.E.; and the E strand probably written between 900 and 800 B.C.E.. The redaction or the compiling of the whole Torah is usually seen as occurring in Babylonia between 600 and 400 B.C.E. For our three passages only J and E are relevant — the first and third passages are usually attributed to J and the second to E. The first account, of Abraham and Sarah in Egypt, is most like a folktale; it is the simplest in structure. It show…
…tangible meaning. And not VaYiqra alone, of course, but most of Bamidbar (Numbers), from which our additional reading comes; a large portion of Shemot (Exodus), and Devarim (Deuteronomy), as well. Our world was rent asunder, smashed into a thousand pieces. The parallel of Temple worship with the synagogue and prayer is more than just an analogy, it is an exact spiritual equivalent. That is because, as all of you know, the practice of synagogue-ba…
…ctually needed to be rationed in some way. Today, although we do sell some tickets, our real problem is that we can’t give tickets away. That is, most American Jews do not come to synagogue on the High Holy Days and would not come even if we gave them free tickets. This fact represents a serious challenge to our community, one that should not be neglected. But the truth is, even if we gave away door prizes, many of “those” people are just not inte…
…erent. Everybody does something behind closed doors, whether it be write a cheap romance novel or go to some forbidden site on the Web. The thing I do behind closed doors is write poetry. Long and involved, they usually represent some flaw in humanity or in myself or just some tragic love poem. Words spurt out of my mouth and I have to write them down or else I lose them, the ideas slipping through my fingers like grains of sand in an hourglass. I…
…ract images. Judaism informs Oren’s art, “Just as it informs nearly everything I do to some degree. We are, after all, just ridiculous collections of our combined experience.” Watch Bruce’s video of the making of his Moshe marble sculpture Read reviews of Bruce Oren’s show in the news A Beaver Hills Sculptor Carves Through The Chaos, newhavenarts.org, Jan 10, 2022 Thou Shalt Go With The Flow, newhavenindependent.org, Dec 17, 2021 exhibition works…
…ree and Open to the Public / Seating is Limited! RESERVE YOUR SEAT / RSVP to giftshop@beki.org Books Available for Sale & Signing light refreshments Reviews: New York Times Jewish Book Council HyperAllergic …
…bit paintings, lecture, and curate Jewish art exhibitions. He is a founding member of the Jewish Art Salon. His website richardmcbee.com exhibits over 300 of his artworks and 250 of his Jewish Art reviews. See Videos of Richard McBee’s talk at BEKI here: Introduction by Margaret Olin Video 2, Sarah and Hidden Figures More Videos of the talk at BEKI continue here:…
…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…
