- 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
…1-12 $1,200 Valley of the Leaves $700 The View from Above $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…
…right with me, besides the fact that about half of the males I’ve ever met flaunt their strength somehow. I often wonder about guys who have to do that. Are they that insecure? Luckily women today don’t have to wonder about what they can attain physically. Just look at the US women’s soccer team, and our own undefeated UCONN women Huskies. Not to make the guys feel any worse, well, maybe just a little, but are the men’s Huskies undefeated? I think…
…ay not be aware of, especially after hearing Joanne conduct the beautiful, fluent haftara reading from Yehezqel (Ezekiel) this morning, is how hard she has worked. Some of our young people, God bless them, seem to lain Torah as easily as breathe. Joanne does not have a great facility for languages, or a special musical talent. She has mastered the prayers and the haftarah letter-by-letter, and note-by-note. Moreover, while she comes from a wonderf…
…emier league) or D&D with other BEKI people. Mike and Lisa Woodward After spending their entire lives in Los Angeles, Lisa and Mike finally left those sunny, earthquake-prone environs and moved to follow their kids to the east coast in 2019. Lisa had worked as a Literacy Specialist at a Jewish Day School in Los Angeles for many years, and as the Educational Director for OROT, a program for Jewish children with learning differences, in Philad…
…f which were highly influenced by my own travels. The series “Vertical Landscapes” were begun after several excursions around Eastern Europe in the 1970s and ’80’s. Each structure is based on a very distinct place in the former Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia or in Rumania, and the titles often refer to the historical events or essential qualities of these specific locations. “From the Venetian Glass Pen” was a series based on the many walks and rides…
…played. This person collected the coins and used the money to have a Torah scroll inscribed. This turned out to be the case. The Besht said that there was no way to correct it and it would be defective forever even if it were corrected over and over again.22 This story similarly illustrates the Talmudic concept of “a mitzva done by way of a transgression is not a mitzva (mitzva ha-ba’a be`avera eina mitzva),” that is, a commandment may not be fulf…
…ll be able to make arrangements with the kitchen supervisor for removing leftover food after the event. BEKI’s custodian will set up tables with plastic table toppers, or you may rent table linens. You may also borrow tablecloths from the Sisterhood supply. Your obligation is to return the washed tablecloths within ten days after your event; they can be washed with normal detergent, though food might need to be scraped off and stain treatment appl…
…lled for an aliya is supposed to follow along with the Torah Reader in the scroll. That is why the Torah Reader shows the honoree the spot where he or she is reading, and that is why the Torah Reader always uses a pointer in the scroll. If there were a pair or a group of people standing around the table, it could become impossible for all of them to see the Torah and perform their aliya properly. If there were no limit on the number of people who…
…your sons? Would you be as proud of a daughter who joins the Israeli army after high school as you would be of one at Stanford? When you envision a Special Forces operation to save those kidnapped Nigerian girls, do you envision the soldiers shooting the Boko Haram kidnappers only as men? In your own mind, do you fully count the women? If you are a man and someone from Chabad comes up to you on the street and tries to convince you to put on tefill…
…you. In the second lekh lekha, God promises Abraham good things for his descendants: …I will bestow my blessings upon you and make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the heavens and the sands on the seashore. And your descendants shall seize the gates of their foes. All the nations of the earth shall bless themselves by your descendants…. But in both sets of blessings, similar things are promised, just for different people. I think that…
