- 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
…28 Sep Rabbi Carl Astor “The Book of Jonah – Seriously? Taking a Fresh Look” September 28, 2019 12:45 pm – 2:30 pm Home Page Interior Page More Info…
…ificial. The sanctuary space should be clearly different from the familiar day to day. A BEKI sanctuary should be warm, orderly, and quiet. It should be respectful of tradition, have qualities of timelessness. The physical symbols and decorations that might provide us with these feelings have changed since the sanctuary was designed forty years ago. Styles and values, even technology and the materials from which art, and synagogues, are made, have…
…17 Apr Festival Service (in-person) – Passover Day II – 1st Day of Omer April 17, 2022 9:15 am – 11:45 am Home Page Interior Page More Info…
…ldren, grandchildren, and great grandchildren, most all of whom are here today. Looking back at these events, were angels at work? Another important figure in my mother’s life is her Aunt Charlotte, a Holocaust survivor. When my mother asked Aunt Charlotte after she had returned from the first reunion of Holocaust survivors why she had remained an observant Jew, she told her story. My great Aunt Charlotte and her family were sent to Auschwitz. Her…
…EKI Bulletin bulletin@beki.org Cemetery Association cemetery@beki.org Sisterhood Giftshop giftshop@beki.org Main Office Hours Monday 9:00a to 5:00p Tuesday Working remotely (available by phone 9:00a to 5:00p) Wednesday 9:00a to 5:00p Thursday 9:00a to 5:00p Friday 9:00a to 3:00p Closed on Federal Holidays and major Jewish Festivals (Rosh HaShana, Yom Kippur, Sukkot, Shemini Atseret-Simhat Torah, Passover, Shavuot). Informational recordings,…
…ograms. Rides for kids when their parent is unable to drive. An occasional phone call or visit to someone who lives alone or in assisted living. A cooked meals or groceries for someone recuperating from illness or surgery. Of course, we can’t provide regular nursing service or permanent carpooling, but we can extend a helping hand, and we should. How will this work? Well, were just getting started, and there may be some kinks till we work out the…
…hei HaBesht (Tel Aviv: Devir) 5707/1947, 5735/1975, p. 35. A table of tale numbers and the corresponding page numbers in other editions is given at the back of the book by Ben-Amos and Mintz. 2. Violence is neither advocated nor condoned in these tales to any significant extent, whereas many tales strongly advocate the efficacy and advantages of nonviolence. The main exception to this generalization are a few of the first fifteen tales (pp. 39-51…
…thanks to his drive to build a city. * * * We don’t often praise Cain but look at what he taught us. And look at what he did. The Torah tells us of nothing more that Cain did but good: wandering by command, then marrying, raising a son, founding a city, naming it after his son. We don’t know when he died, but we know that his descendants too showed enormous industry: They were the first to play music, the first to forge copper, the first to forge…
…ven] Advocate, is about to be published. The book is called Thirteen and a Day, and it’s a look at contemporary American Judaism through the institution of the bar- and bat-mitzva. Mark visited a lot of synagogues to see how they handle their benei mitzva preparations and celebrations, and he happened to come to BEKI on the Shabbat of Annie Bass’s bat mitzva. Later, he interviewed the Basses, the rabbi and me. I think he got his description of BEK…
…rm on Earth was a multicellular worm. As humanity continues to evolve, someday people will reach new levels of consciousness and understanding, such that they will look back at us as primitive and limited. As Rabbi Levitas of Yavne says, “Be very very humble, for a human’s future is to be a worm” (Avot 4:4). Perhaps our destiny is to be seen by our distant descendants as being as significant and advanced as worms. The Torah can only stretch the mi…
