- 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
…05 Nov Deadline to Order USY Pies November 5, 2021 9:00 am – 2:00 pm BEKI Kids page Home Page Interior Page Pies can be picked up Sunday, November 21st from 12 to 1:30 pm and Tuesday, November 23st from 6 to 7:30 pm More Info…
…08 Nov Costuming Presentation & Workshop by Sharon Naveh November 8, 2015 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm Sunday, November 8th, 1-4 pm Plan ahead for Purim! The Rimmonim (New Haven) Chapter of the Pomegranate Guild of Judaic Needlework, presents a Costuming Presentation and […] More Info…
…oss Dressing and Deuteronomy 22:5 Tefillin While You Wait Women & Tefillin Misplaced Matriarchs Misplaced Matriarchs Addendum: Missed Beats & Displaced Genderqueers Chews by Choice – Tishrei 5759 Toward a Moderate Communal Kashrut Regime The Chicken that had no Heart The Cycle of Violence Motifs of Nonviolence in Shivhei HaBesht (Tales of the Ba’al Shem Tov) Mitzva Indigestion Torah Manifesto The Problem of Purim Farshem nit dein mamen Wandering i…
…07 Nov Fair Trade Chocolate Order Deadline November 7, 2021 12:00 pm Becky May’s Fair trade chocolate order due date is Sunday, November 7. Orders should go to her via email, bseashoremay@aol.com. Details are in the November […] More Info…
…, Connecticut Jewish Ledger, 6 January 2006 A Higher Power, New Haven Independent, 19 December 2005 Student Power, SmartPower, December 2005 Stemming the Tide, by Liz Galst, Forward (English), 4 November 2005…
…edman, alav hashalom. Well, once every 15 years isn’t often enough. This coming November, we will hold another tribute dinner. I am honor bound not to say too much tonight. The Board and the honorees know why. This year’s first-ever auction, chaired by Donna Levine, was a brilliant success and a lot of fun. We are already planning the next one. For years, I heard people talk about improving the Shabbat qiddushim. Now, thanks to Bryna Pauker, Sherr…
…with Darryl and with all of you this “milestone” anniversary of Darryl becoming a Bat-Mitzvah. Of course, 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 t…
…ll bless themselves by your descendants…. But in both sets of blessings, similar things are promised, just for different people. I think that if Abraham had passed God’s test in the second lekh lekha with an A or a B instead of a C, maybe the blessings would have been for him like in the first lekh lekha as well as for his descendants. I would like to thank everyone for coming to celebrate with me today. I would especially like to thank everyone w…
…mprehension. We would like to feel uplifted. I think we would like to be reminded of things that are God created, not man created. In the sanctuary we might like to be surrounded by the natural rather than the artificial. 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 dec…
…uy him tefillin.” In general, we encourage pre-benei mitzva to begin performing mitzvot (religious obligations) as soon as they are “age appropriate,” even though minors are not technically obligated until they reach the age of majority. For some mitzvot, such as marriage and raising children, we generally encourage people to wait until after their teenage years. In the days of the Temple, kohanim did not serve in certain capacities, and men were…
