- 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 Jul Elm City Winds Quintet Concert – BEKI Courtyard July 28, 2021 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm BEKI Kids page Home Page Interior Page Jennifer Sidney Silva, flute; Caesar Storlazzi, oboe; Laura Caruthers, clarinet; Adrienne Gallagher, bassoon; and Emily Fine, French horn, will perform Wednesday, July 28 at 7:00 pm. […] More Info…
…26 Sep Pizza in the Hut September 26, 2021 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm BEKI Kids page Home Page Interior Page Pizza in the Hut returns! The party is Sunday, September 26 at 4:00pm in the BEKI courtyard sukkah. Reservations are due to the office by September 22, $10/adults, $5/child […] More Info…
…All worship services and children’s programs are member-led. Education Director Annie Norman Schiff (anormanschiff@beki.org) arranges the rotation for children’s programs. To sign up to lead part of the Saturday morning services, or to read Torah or Haftorah, make your selection via our online spreadsheet. Just scroll down to the proper date to see details about each aliyah. Questions? Consult Rachel Adelstein at ritualcoordinator@beki.org. …
…Shabbat Afternoon Schedule Change: The Shabbat Minha (Saturday Afternoon) services in February 2017 will be 1p – 1:35p in the Posener Beit Midrash, and (as in the summer) the evening service will not be held at BEKI on those four days. This early service time will allow participants to avoid the round-trip to the synagogue on what are the snowiest and coldest nights. Comments or questions to jjtilsen@beki.org . …
…service is an Amidah very similar to the Amidah of the Shacharit (morning) service. Near the end of the service, Mourner’s Kaddish is recited by people observing either a mourning period or the anniversary of the death of a close relative. Kiddush & Motzi Celebrating happy occasions with feasting is an important part of our tradition. We hope you can join us for a reception, which will be held in the downstairs Social Hall. We will gather in the S…
…srael. Posener was the first recipient of the Congregation’s Distinguished Service Award in 1995 in recognition of outstanding volunteer service to the Congregation. In 1999 and again in 2000, George Posener added significantly to his initial contribution to the Fund. The Gilah Benson-Tilsen Fund for Youth To mark Gilah’s acceptance of adult responsibilities toward God and Humanity at the time of her becoming a bat mitzva, Gilah and her family hav…
…oynbee and) said, “How odd of God to choose the Jews,” we respond, (in the spirit of Maurice Samuel,) “It’s not so odd: the Jews chose God.” Listen to what Mark Twain wrote at the very end of the 19th century, in 1899, in his essay “Concerning the Jews”: If the statistics are right, the Jews constitute but one percent of the human race. It suggests a nebulous dim puff of star dust lost in the blaze of the Milky Way. Properly, the Jew ought hardly…
…13 Aug Chapel on the Green August 13, 2017 9:45 am – 3:30 pm Home Page BEKI Social Action/Tikkun Olam volunteers will prepare individually wrapped items for distribution to those in need outdoors on the New Haven Green. Cold food prep […] More Info…
…y to love, but to love with all that we are; with our heart, our body, and spirit. And yet how can we achieve such love if fear is the foundational emotion? In my experience fear doesn’t yield love, it, as Yoda warns, leads to anger and eventually to hatred. On Yom Kippur we read that Hashem is good and does good to all, sinner and saint alike. Depicted is a G‐d with eternal patience for all G‐d’s children, always calling those who have gone astra…
…them, so close that we feel they reflect us, so close that we breathe our spirit into them, then we are sometimes more like the stern judge. And as that stern judge we give tzedaka without hesed, justice without mercy. We set strict limits and threaten stern consequences. Sometimes we have to – that mythical world of only-mercy did not survive. Could not survive. But we have to be very careful about those consequences too – because that other myt…
