- 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
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…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…
…his is not surprising: the very thing that made VaYiqra so central to our ancestors is what makes it so remote to us. It is fundamentally concerned with the details of Temple sacrifice, with ritual purity and impurity, and with the functions of the priests; that is to say, it deals with the tangible day-to-day reality of the Jewish religion while the Temple stood. The rest of the Torah has historical, philosophical, and legal interest to Jews of t…
…s going to have many different types of Jewish (and some not Jewish) influence from his extended family. We are so excited for him to also have the influence of BEKI, which seems to be deeply respectful of Torah and tradition as well as humanism and egalitarianism. Thank you for your work for our community! Toni Davis & Leslie Brisman Splitting our time between Westville and Madison, CT, we were looking for a vibrant area Conservative synagogue wi…
…ed with dancers and musicians in the creation of installations for performances. These have included large sculptural str uctures, floor drawings and video. Broell Bresnick has taught at Stanford University, University of New Haven, University of Bridgeport and the Educational Center for the Arts, where she served as Visual Arts Department Chair for 29 years. She has given lectures at a number of museums, galleries and universities. Anna Broell Br…
…ning he prayed in public.13 In this tale, perhaps to avoid delay or great inconvenience, the Besht performed part of his repentance through a messenger. But in another tale the Besht insists that the penitent personally make restitution face-to-face with the victim. The Besht’s servant, Rabbi Ya`aqov, had admitted to having kept a pair of stokings found in the house they were renting. The servant [Rabbi Ya`aqov] told the gentile servant to return…
…Kiddush Team This fee (prices as of March 2024) includes a dairy buffet lunch, announcement and publication of sponsorship, wine & grape juice, setting up and clean-up of the room, trash removal and standard custodial services. These BEKI volunteers can manage up to 50 invited guests in addition to the congregation; for larger events, please see b. Catered Kiddush. Abby Fraade will be able to provide current pricing and other details. For additio…
…ate in synagogue ritual in many communities. As the calls for women’s presence on the bima increased, it was decided, in some places, that a woman could ascend the bima for one of the seven aliyot if, and only if, she were accompanied by a man (a spouse, fiancé or brother). This was done in order to expand the role of women in the service. A woman could be allowed to go to the bima for a “joint aliya” because she didn’t count. The theory that perm…
…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…
…drew my conclusion from. I drew this conclusion by looking at some differences between the two instances of lekh lekha. In both cases of lekh lekha, Abraham is given blessings from God, but they are given at different times in each circumstance. In the first lekh lekha, Abraham’s blessings are given directly after the command “lekh lekha” is issued. In the second lekh lekha, the blessings are not given until Abraham is about to sacrifice Isaac. A…
