- 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
…outh groups Free High Holy Day tickets Support from our Hesed Committee Shiva minyanim Choice of two affiliated cemeteries Programming for children and adults All Jews are invited to become members of BEKI, including: Jews by birth and Jews by choice (converts) Jews in mixed marriages and couples who are both Jewish Jews of all races Jews of all gender identities or sexual orientations. BEKI believes in taking a robustly welcoming stance toward in…
…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…
…itique of each of these interpretive strategies. To turn inward and self-reflective has the great advantage of increasing self-awareness and recognizing how we may have contributed to our own misfortune. But it also runs the significant danger of blaming the victim. Amaleq attacked the stragglers, interpreted by the sages as a warning to not be a religious straggler, neglecting the mitzvoth. But, the Holocaust would have happened whether we fulfil…
…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…
…nteers to read Torah, lead daily and Shabbat services, and teach benei mitzva students. Mr. Friedman had raised generations of New Haven youth with a love of Torah—and his commitment to both tradition and the advancement of women eased the congregation’s transition to a fully gender-egalitarian format. In the 1990s, BEKI launched numerous initiatives to make the congregation more inclusive. Among them are the Kulanu Ke’Ehad program of outreach to…
…1:11). Dear Rabbi, I can’t stand it. Whenever I come for food at a Bar Mitzva or Bat Mitzva or Wedding I have to stand in a long line. Can’t you do something about it? Signed, Tired of waiting in long lines. Dear Tired, Simply tell the people to stand closer together. Then the line will be shorter. Dear Rabbi, How early can we make our house kosher for Pesah? Can we eat kosher for Pesah foods on our Pesah dishes before Pesah? Signed, Early Bird De…
…d long since expired. However, the tanks are just the beginning. Their removal sensitized us to the critical need to continue renovating our entire heating and cooling infrastructure. Our furnace is ancient, insulated by asbestos and heating extremely inefficiently compared with the alternatives now available. Even if fuel costs for the current system did not represent such a financial burden, which they do, we would still have a compelling enviro…
…a few sentences, then to a few words, and finally to one word. And so my Devar Torah is just that — a word of Torah about a word of Torah. The Aliya and the Word If we turn to page 166 in Etz Hayim, our new Humash, let’s look at the first aliya, which starts at [Genesis] chapter 28, verse 10. In last week’s parasha, upon the instigation of Rivqa, Yitshaq instructs Ya`aqov to head to Paddan-aram to take a wife from among the daughters of Lavan. Now…
…e-and-death situation could actually be a constructive act. Just as “a mitzvah draws forth another mitzvah, and a transgression draws forth another transgression,”38 so too does one violent act draw forth another violent act. It would be instructive to know what actually happened to couples to whom Isserlein’s ruling was applied. It may be worthwhile to keep in mind the values expressed by Epstein most recently in the `Arukh HaShulhan: The princip…
