- 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
…interfaith and multi-racial family himself, Rabbi Woodward considers the inclusion of non-Jewish relatives in the community to be deeply important. The same goes for Jews of all income levels. Membership at BEKI is not about money. While BEKI does rely on members’ dues to pay the staff and to keep the building open, nobody is turned away because of inability to pay. Our members include those who can afford to pay little or no money to belong to B…
…25 Jan The Afro-Semetic Experience January 25, 2000 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm BEKI Join us for An encore concert IN ANTICIPATION OF THE DAYS OF AWE David Chevan, Warren Byrd and the AFRO-SEMITIC EXPERIENCE CONGREGATION BETH EL – […] More Info…
…11 Apr Kadima at Adventure Park April 11, 2021 3:00 pm – 6:00 pm BEKI Kids page Home Page Interior Page April 11 from 3-6 pm, BEKI Kadima is going climbing at the Adventure Park at the Discovery Museum in Bridgeport! Explore the park’s aerial trails […] More Info…
…euteronomy “Amaleq happened (karekha) upon you. Karekha literally means coincidence or happenstance. Amaleq stands for randomness, chaos, a universe without God’s order. The verse in Deuteronomy continues, “And Amaleq did not fear God.” Thus he becomes the opposition to Torah. God’s world has purpose and meaning with an absolute standard of morality. Amaleq opposes that order. In remembering and not forgetting Amaleq we are being told to recognize…
…eries has been an ongoing endeavor, a very personal body of work created since 2000. It consists of conceptual art clothing, wall hangings, drawings, soft sculpture, and installation pieces. The work addresses the historical events of the Holocaust in layers of meaning and imagery, in the juxtaposition of fabric and design, and in the use of familiar symbolic images embedded as decorative elements. “All That Remains” will next be presented at the…
…n a process of building renovations, aimed at improving accessibility, enhancing energy efficiency, and upgrading security. BEKI has won awards from the US Environmental Protection Agency and the United Synagogue for Conservative Judaism for its environmental stewardship. Rabbi Woodward Rabbi Eric Woodward became the spiritual leader in June 2021. BEKI today is a growing congregation with well over three hundred member families. Most of our membe…
…be parve. In my view, this particular application of the “devar hadash” principle is a problem, since in the public’s eye gelatin is always viewed as an animal-derived product. The BEKI kitchen does not permit the use of any animal-derived gelatins. And the last time I looked, Yoplait had a plain “K” symbol, which is not an acceptable indication of rabbinic supervision. This product would not be accepted for use in the BEKI kitchen. Dear Rabbi,…
…n to global warming. The cooling system is also way beyond its life expectancy. Maintenance and repair costs are huge. So is the risk of a leak of large quantities of chloroflourocarbons, also known as CFCs, which attack the atmospheric ozone layer and thus expose life on earth to increased levels of harmful ultraviolet radiation. Waiting for this system to break down and to patch it again and again is not environmentally responsible. As a congreg…
…g, may we make of this parallel? Nothing, perhaps – unconnected, just a coincidence; but what if all three patriarchs and all three Divine attributes were somehow to correspond? Would that not strengthen the hint we have of connection? In search of correspondence, I looked around a bit and found an illustration in my edition of the medieval mystical text of the Zohar. The illustration is of the Ten Sefirot – mystical attributes of the one God. The…
…day, so too writers of Jewish history have sought to minimize or deny the incidence of wife-beating in the past.2 Whether or not the incidence of wife-beating among Jews has compared “favorably” with that among other groups, it has been sufficient to generate a significant body of halakhic (Jewish legal) literature over the centuries. Due to the unusual nature of the crime, legal principles and devices are pushed to their limits, with some remarka…
