- 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
…llery at the Boston Center for the Arts. She has exhibited in galleries in New York, the West Coast and throughout the United States as well as in Berlin, Rome and Vienna. Her work 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 re…
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…nhattan Cultural Council. Safran-Hon had solo exhibitions at Slag Gallery, New York, RX Gallery, Paris, Brandt Gallery, Amsterdam, and Marfa Contemporary, Marfa, Texas, and group shows at the Haifa Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, and P.P.O.W Gallery, New York. In 2020 Safran-Hon was a recipient of the BRIC Colene Brown Art Prize. Safran-Hon’s art can be viewed on her website, www.naomisafranhon.com At BEKI, T…
…l so far with him, to the border of Canaan. Now that he is leaving Canaan, new angels with a new mission must guide him. In a way, this happens in all our lives. When you leave one place, or a stage in your life, you leave behind the protectors and guides of that place or stage, and you face the uncertainty of whether there will be people who will take their place. Jacob was lucky in that new angels were coming down the ladder for him and he had G…
…lfillment of a specific related Biblical law, a halakha de-Oreita, in this way: Rabbi Alexander said: Two donkey drivers were walking by the way and they hated each other. One of their donkeys sat down. The second driver saw it, but kept going. Then, after having passed, this second driver thought: It is written in the Torah, “If you see the ass of one who hates you lying under its burden, you shall surely lift it up.” Immediately the second drive…
…most vivid because of its recency. A few weeks ago, my wife and I were in New York and had dinner with a couple, Isaac and Miriam, that lived across from the Twin Towers. Their five-year-old daughter had watched from her bedroom window as the second plane crashed into the towers. She hadn’t seen the first because she was in bed reading a book. She watched the towers crumble. Every time she does a drawing, a collage, or an art project there is alw…
…d activities that have been flourishing for years. And we’ve initiated any number of new programs that you have suggested. There is energy in the air that encourages people to think, “We can do it.” Our attitude is, “Just say yes.” Last June we had a tribute dinner, honoring the rabbi and Miriam and raising a lot of money for the shul. A zillion people worked to make that happen. Prior to that, the last tribute dinner anyone could recall took plac…
…y known as Downtown Cooperative Ministries and has been working in and for New Haven since 1973. Habitat for Humanity of Greater New Haven is an affiliate of Habitat for Humanity International, an ecumenical Christian ministry dedicated to eliminating poverty housing by creating homeownership opportunities for working, low-income families. Using volunteer labor and donated funds and materials, Habitat for Humanity rehabilitates abandoned properti…
…ou all. Please help us again, this time by passing along our thanks to the number of congregants who are away this weekend of Thanksgiving, giving thanks of their own elsewhere. The morning of the surgery I prayed and learned another prayerbook lesson, this time explicit. At my request, Marsha had brought me a copy of our Siddur, Sim Shalom. Uncharacteristically, I admit, I started from the beginning of the Shaharit, or morning, service. There I d…
