- 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
…ded 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 make arrangements ahead of time. Please contact our office 203.389.2108 x114 office@beki.org or download documents for further information. A schedule is presented below. To purchase tickets online, click here, then scroll down to Hig…
…CC Mitzvah Day, to which we invited USYers from the CT and MA region. Amid Strike, Stop & Shop Foods Not Kosher For Passover, Says New Haven Rabbi, www.wnpr.org, April 19, 2019 Jews preparing their Passover meals this weekend may face an ethical dilemma if they plan on getting their food from Stop & Shop. Employees at the grocery store chain are on strike. One Connecticut rabbi says food isn’t kosher if you have to cross a picket line to buy it. M…
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…ere he was likely to be killed. Continuing our comparison — only in the first story does Abraham ask Sarah to cooperate in the deception. In the second and third, there’s no mention of the husband consulting with his wife about the deception — he just goes ahead and does it. In the first and second stories Sarah is in fact taken to the ruler — in the first episode, Sarah is taken into the palace, some say even into the Pharaoh’s harem, and Abraham…
…bove $1,000 The Book of Life $600 Huppa $2,000 Kaleidoscope $400 Round Matzah Cover $150 Click here to download a printable list of prices…
…onor. We chose to honor the many missing people with a large empty frame. Our call to contemplation also includes phrases scattered throughout the exhibition. We invite BEKI members to send us their thoughts on the exhibit. For further reading, we suggest the 2008 JTS blog post by Marc Wolf, Nostalgia, Memory and the Building of Judaism, We hope that this bit of nostalgia will inspire you to take one of the artworks into your home. Many (not all)…
The following history is adapted from a longer history by past president Alan Gelbert. For the full-length version (which is well worth reading), click here. You can also see back issues of the BEKI Bulletin. Our past In 1892, several Jewish families in the Hill neighborhood began meeting as a new congregation, and when, two years later, they purchased a house at 10 Rose Street (near the current site of Yale–New Haven Hospital), they built what…
…a good thing, and we can agree with him. But if we put aside our modern distaste for the sanguinary spectacle of animal sacrifice, and try to imagine the impact of having one’s whole mode of worship abolished at one fell swoop — a tradition given by God, apparently to be binding upon our people for all time; a system regarded as effective and essential for repairing the breaches in our relationship, individual and communal, with the Eternal — I t…
…thinking really hard and long about it. I think that this is one of the most feminist haftorahs I’ve ever heard. Women are the main topic in this haftorah, and not just because they’re somebody’s wife/mother/sister or daughter. Deborah is the main character in this, but there’s also Yael, who kills Sisera in his sleep. After, of course, she drugged him so he’d feel no pain. Or much pain, at least. And then there’s this week’s parsha, where Miriam…
…ive written answers. 1. When someone posts a “Vote For Candidate X” bumper sticker on a “Stop” sign, do they intend to promote or to “stop” that candidate? 2. When one shampoo bottle says “for shiny manageable hair” and the second says “for dry damaged hair,” who buys the one that makes their hair dry and damaged? 3. When the orange juice carton advertises “squeezed orange juice,” how else might they have gotten the juice out? 4. When one person w…
