- 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
…Introspection $500 Genesis 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…
…Mob gangster that I might like it. I also think that if I grow up to be a teacher that I might like it. As I make decisions about my future, I have to look at what is important in life. Family, friends, and religion, and don’t forget money. But I look at Deborah and Miriam and see women who knew themselves and knew how they wanted to live, and I have to admire that….
…is not surprising that a portion of our people simply lay down on the ground and never got up again, or that another group adopted the radical conception of a former disciple of Rabbi Gamaliel that the death on the cross of a popular itinerant teacher constituted a single cosmic sacrifice that would atone for all the sins of his believers for all time. When the Temple was destroyed, the central book of our Torah was stripped of its earthly refere…
…Jewish are the opportunities for connection and shared ritual with our friends and family. Also bagels. We hope to be able to sit in the main service as a family sometime in the next decade! Jon would look for someone who enjoyed board games. Caleb would look for another baby whose socks he can try to steal. Both have already made a lot of great progress. Coretta & Naftali Caplan and baby Jonah Caplan We live in Westville. Baby Jonah is going to h…
…has been written about in the New York Times, Art In America, Art New England and many regional newspapers. She has been the recipient of numerous awards and grants, including 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/curato…
…to his neighbor, a silversmith, and saw a ring there. He took it in his hand and immediately threw it away. He said that this ring was ordered with money gained from interest. The silversmith investigated and found it to be so.24 Today, this might mean declining to benefit from consumer goods produced through slave labor or produced from stolen land or by illicitly acquired capital. Such refusal to participate in the structures of oppression and…
…p, 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 additional 10 or fewer invited guests (Standard Kiddush): $320 For every additional 20 invited guests beyond those 10, expect to…
…e allow a couple to open the ark and take out the Torah together, or lift and bind the Torah together, serve as Torah reader and honoree together. There are many other ways couples can do things together in the service. There are many ways people can be involved as couples and be fully in keeping with law and tradition. While there are people who are disappointed that they could not have a joint aliya, there are also people – especially women – wh…
…, this is, in part, a personal celebration for her, for our family and friends and our community. We look forward to your all joining us in the continuation of this celebration at Kiddush. However, for me, this celebration is, in part, also a small but important statement. It is, for me, a religious statement. It is a statement that stands, at the least, as a counterpoint to one that I think is made by the censuses described in today’s parshah. Ma…
…kh lekha, I don’t think that God really wanted Abraham to follow that commandment and sacrifice his son. I think so because Abraham does not receive his blessings until he is about to actually stick his knife into Isaac. To me, this seems to say that God wanted Abraham to argue. But God had to give him some kind of reward, since Abraham did what he said. The Torah says that in the second lekh lekha, God was testing Abraham. Most of the time, peopl…
