- 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
…23 Dec The Bluegrass Characters & Kol Kahol December 23, 2021 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm The annual bluegrass concert has returned! Kol Kahol and The Bluegrass Characters Revue will present “A Tribute to Phil Zimmerman and Stacy Phillips” at BEKI […] More Info…
…30 years. Oren is a direct carver of stone. He begins carving without preconception, maquette or plan — letting the stone initially dictate its form. After the stone is roughly carved, “the rock reveals its images hidden inside,” said Oren, “It’s nothing cosmic. It’s like seeing shapes in clouds — a variety of natural gestalt closure.” Some of Oren’s work plays on one’s mind seeing figurative images in random or abstract shapes. He has compiled a…
…,” Rabbi David Ruderman, Rabbinical Assembly, 2000 “Rabbi Yohanan Aleimanno’s Introduction to his Commentary on Shir HaShirim, Dr. Chaim Hames, Rabbinical Assembly, 2000 “Passover in Classical Rabbinical Sources,” Dr. Ruth Sandberg, Rabbinical Assembly, 2000 “Resistance and Auto-Emancipation in the Exodus: Insights from the Midrash,” Rabbi Allen Kensky, Rabbinical Assembly, 2000 “What Will Jewish Community and Jewish Values Mean for the 21st Centu…
…12 Jun Drive-by Food Drive June 12, 2022 10:00 am – 11:00 am Home Page Interior Page BEKI will hold a food collection from 10 to 11 am on Sunday, June 12. This is Westville’s annual Giveaway Day (in which people put […] More Info…
…ays of dawn, the stillness of the day’s heat, the evening’s twilight, radiance and dimness, wind and rain, a night’s storm.” Avniel’s work was included the 2004 exhibition “Our Landscape: Notes on Landscape Painting in Israel” at the University of Haifa Art Gallery. Other exhibitions include the National Gallery in Washington, Tel Aviv Museum, New York University gallery,and numerous shows in galleries in New York, Montreal, Boston, Paris,and Tel…
…ronics time. It is not just physical idols either. There are idols of violence, cruelty, selfishness and hate. In many ways, hate most of all. There is so much hate in this world it has gotten to a point where it is reasonless — things like racism, and the fights in the Middle East. These are all idols of hate. Together we can break some idols. I have had help preparing for this day. My parents have always stood by me. My Dad has been a well of st…
…of the crucifixion, this time with a miracle-working black man who is sentenced to death in the electric chair. As Lenny Bruce once said, if the story had taken place in the 20th century, Christians would be wearing little electric chair pendants around their necks. But the movie does not develop those themes – it is merely an unending graphic display of human suffering, and if it is accurate, it was the fate of over 100,000 Jews during Roman occu…
…07 Sep Shaharit (Federal Holiday Service Time) September 7, 2015 9:00 am – 9:45 am Home Page Shaharit service will be held at 9:00am on Labor Day. More Info…
…she is not even called an adulteress but a sota, “a woman who strayed.” Since this principle of Torah law is already known to us, the Gemara was free to read the law of verse 31 as a limit on the sota ceremony dependent on the social conditions of the day: In this case, on the morality of men. Although Rabbi Yohanan was right about the social conditions of his time, he abolished nothing. The bitter waters of the sota ceremony had already lost the…
…or all G‐d’s children, always calling those who have gone astray to repentance and reconciliation. This is a G‐d I can love with all of my being. But what then are we to make of the first vision of G‐d, the cruel, the impatient, and the grimly violent deity? I would suggest that we must look at who is giving an account of this G‐d, the community whose text this great work of scripture belongs and consider what in their experience would lead them t…
