- 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
…e cultural diversity. To live according to our own ways is now part of the American ideal. By right as Americans we can declare our Jewishness. By living fully as Jews, we get “extra credit” for living the American Way. When we place our Hanuka lights in our window for all to see, we make a positive statement about our values and identity. “Whoever performs a mitzva,” say our sages, “lights a candle of God and revives their spirit.” Happy Hanuka….
…y military and police personnel, and full-time students, may enter with valid official ID. Children are always welcome to join us accompanied by their adults. This year, again, we will have a ticketless entry system. Individuals included on the membership who are in good standing will be on the membership list. All others interested in attending, including immediate family not included on the membership, extended family and guests will need to…
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…patriarchal deceptions which put their wives at risk. However, both Nachmanides and Maimonides are clear in their denunciations of Abraham’s conduct. A footnote to Lekh Lekha in our Etz Hayim humash quotes Rambam as saying: “Know that our father Abraham inadvertently committed a great sin by placing his virtuous wife in a compromising situation because of his fear of being killed. He should have trusted in God.” Rambam holds that Abraham also sinn…
…ecific, 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 synag…
…s outwardly visible but is most certainly there. Another similarity as I said before, is their strength as individuals, not just as who they’re related to. Both of these women speak their minds, which I find to be a very important trait in anybody. A final similarity, it seems to me, is family relationships. Both of these women had strong family ties, whether it was to a spouse, like Deborah, or to siblings, like Miriam. I am at a certain point in…
…two from the Connecticut Commission on the Arts, a Weir Farm Art Center Residency, two full residency grants to the Vermont Studio Center and two Artist In Residence Grants from the International Festival For The Arts, New Haven, CT. She served 4 years as the director/curator of the John Slade Ely House, Center for Contemporary Art, New Haven, CT, and has curated a number of independent exhibitions. She studied at the Akademie fuer Angewante Kunst…
…ral demands such piety of all their followers, the Besht’s attitude is considered the ideal for which we all should ultimately strive. This may mean a measurable change in our lifestyles as we reorder our priorities on the personal level. Means-Ends Relationship A fourth and crucial nonviolent concern holds that we should not separate the “ends” we seek from the “means” we use to reach them. In other words, good results cannot be achieved through…
…en in ritual, scholarship, legal judgments and communal leadership, as outside the pale, as something beyond Yiddishkeit. So the effort to have women counted in full goes on. Each time we elect a woman as a Jewish communal leader, hire or learn from a woman rabbi, count a woman in a Minyan, enjoy a woman’s leading services, celebrate a girl’s becoming a Jewish adult as fully as we celebrate it for a boy, or commemorate the anniversary of a bat-mit…
