- Congregation Beth El–Keser Israel
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85 Harrison Street, New Haven, CT 06515-1724 | P: 203.389.2108 | office@beki.org
…s 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 interfaith families. Coming from an 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 re…
…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…
…nocide. “Remember Amaleq” starts to sound like “Remember the Alamo” — a justification for going to war. Lest we think that this interpretation is historical and not contemporary, we have only to recall Baruch Goldstein, an American-born Israeli doctor who became a fundamentalist. On the 14th day of Adar 1994, he killed 29 innocents Muslims at morning prayer in the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron. He was then beaten to death by survivors and a rio…
…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 work, contact the artist, and please mention that you came to her via BEKI http://www.lesliejklein.com / lesliejklein@gmail.com…
…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 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…
…er reason — then by all means eat the beans. While maintaining the proscription on eating kitniyot, the Committee on Jewish Law and Standards of the Rabbinical Assembly (Conservative) has ruled that green beans are permitted on Pesah. Even if you don’t eat green beans, it is permitted to eat on the dishes of someone who does eat them on Pesah. Beans and other kitniyot are not hametz. If someone hands you the beans, just pass them over to the next…
…que events of historic time were spiritually more significant than the repetitive processes in the cycle of nature…. The God of Israel [is] the God of events: the Redeemer from slavery, the Revealer of the Torah, manifesting Himself in events of history rather than in things or places. Though seeking God in a visual medium, we looked not for images but for stories, patterns of events that reveal the sacred dimension of life. Heschel continues: Jud…
…cycle” — leining one aliya for each of the Five Books. For the novice, repetition is the key. And so I read rishon dozens of times. I also made an effort to understand the text word by word, something I do not ordinarily find accessible. Gradually I focused down within the aliya, first to 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…
…urt, or at least at the court’s directive, rather than on the husband’s initiative: “If he says that she is not doing it but she says that she is not refusing to do it, a woman is placed between them, or neighbors. And this matter goes according to what the judge sees is possible in the matter (she-yire ha-dayan efshar be-devar).”32 In his notes on the Rambam, Rabbenu Avraham ben David of Posquieres (Raabad, 1120-1198) takes exception to Rambam’s…
