- 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
…ility to pay. Our members include those who can afford to pay little or no money to belong to BEKI, and such arrangements are kept confidential. Rather, membership is important so that we can know each other, celebrate together, learn together, even mourn together. By filling out the membership application, you signal your willingness to share yourself with others, and to let them share with you. The application asks what you are hoping to get fro…
…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…
…dispel the harmful effects of negative emotions. As one humorist noted, “Humor is more important than food. If you don’t have food, you can still make jokes about it, but if you laugh too hard on a full stomach, you’ll throw up.” Everyone knows that laughter is the best medicine, though, come to think of it, Penicillin is probably the best medicine, or Prozac, or Botox. And people say, “That’s funny” when it’s not, and say “That’s not funny” when…
…familiar symbolic images embedded as decorative elements. “All That Remains” will next be presented at the Virginia Holocaust Museum, Richmond, VA, in October 2020. The works in this show include images from each of these series. In this retrospective of her work, a number of works in private collections are represented by photographic reproductions, thus providing context for the entirety of exhibition. for more information and for purchasing wor…
…In the 1990s, BEKI launched numerous initiatives to make the congregation more inclusive. Among them are the Kulanu Ke’Ehad program of outreach to adults developmental disabilities; Saul’s Circle, an outreach program for adults with chronic debilitating mental illness; an accessible washroom; and a commitment to offer a basic religious school education to all of its children, whatever their special learning needs. The breadth and quality of Shabb…
…ns with the letters alef lamed and ends with a consonantal hei, or, in the most common variations, ends with the im or enu suffix. This name is most often translated as “God.” It is the generic name used to describe both God and false gods (as in, “You shall have no other gods before me”). Some people wish to transfer that sanctity to the common English word “God” (hence, “G-d”). Although there is no basis for this in law, who am I to stand in the…
…p with Rabbi Tilsen. We have been studying Mishna Sanhedrin weekly now for more than ten months. Here I learned that “He who saves a single life is as if he had saved an entire world.” The context in which this teaching appears is so rich it deserves at the very least an entire course. Please note that the study group is open to other interested congregants. Two or three months into the year, my yovel learning commitment ripened into a teaching co…
…d’s Presence. It is as if each act of lovingkindness were a star in the cosmos and the cosmos were the trailing edge of the robe of God as He passes Moses in the cleft of the rock, letting Moses see His back only. As Abraham Joshua Heschel writes, Where is the Presence, where is the glory of God to be found? It is found in the world (“the whole earth is full of His glory”), in the Bible, and in a sacred deed.The world, the word, as well as the sac…
…l inspect your fold and miss nothing’ [or, ‘and not sin’] (Job 5:24)” (Yevamot 62b). This last example becomes, in Maimonides’ Mishne Torah (written 1177-1182), “Thus commanded the Sages: A man should honor his wife more than his own body and love her like his own body.”6 Similarly, the Rabbis have much to say about relations between one person and another in general, beyond emphasizing the Biblical dictum “You shall love your neighbor as yourself…
