- 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
…14 Sep Heart of the New Year Meditation with Robin Goldberg, DMD September 14, 2019 12:45 pm – 2:00 pm Home Page Interior Page Come enjoy a guided meditation to bring us into the Days of Awe. Robin Goldberg DMD has been teaching Heart Rhythm Meditation since 2012. Because […] More Info…
…s. We can see now how the practice of saying mourner’s qaddish two or more times in a row evolved. First only one person said only one qaddish, then one person at a time said one of a succession of qaddishes separated by a Psalm, then everyone said several qaddishes together. There is no logical reason to say more than one qaddish in a congregation where all mourners recite it together. The practice of saying multiple qaddishes is a remnant of an…
Phone: 203.389.2108 Fax: 203.389.5899 Postal Address: Congregation Beth El-Keser Israel 85 Harrison St. New Haven CT 06515-1724 Office Manager Peggy Hackett Ext. 114 Education Director Annie Norman-Schiff Ext. 113 President Russell Epstein Rabbi Eric Woodward Ext. 120 Ritual Committee Chairperson Bruce Spierer Youth & Family Programming Director Annie Norman-Schiff Ext. 113 BEKI Bulletin bulletin@beki.org Cemetery Association cemetery@beki….
…if you’re not used to it.” Reaching out Kulanu is … run by Johnston, a 35-year-old from out west. Years ago, Johnston converted to Judaism. She then taught Jewish education in synagogues in Iowa, Oregon and Nebraska. Aside from being education coordinator at Congregation Or Shalom in Orange, and teaching courses at MAKOM Hebrew High School in New Haven, she teaches Kulanu classes at BEKI, the Keefe Community Center in Hamden, and the Learning Bar…
…times. There are several different names in Hebrew that mean sheep. A one year old male is a keves, a one year old female is a kavsa, kivsa, or kisba. An adult male is an ayil, a 3 year old is an ayil meshullash, and a mature female is a rahel. Both a young sheep and goat is called a taleh, and a fully grown sheep is a se. A kesev according to one source is a strange looking sheep and according to another, a kesev was a spotted or speckled animal…
…leader, as the congregation began its second century. As it happened, that year Louis Friedman ז״ל retired after over 40 years as shamash; his retirement necessitated the mobilization of volunteers 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 trans…
…ongs that are sung or the use of choral music during services. Because our time is short, we will not have time to debate the validity of these points of view. Perhaps we will be able to do this some other time. For today, I would like to recognize that there are also strong forces within Judaism that embrace art, embrace a wider view of religion that encourages the inclusion of beauty in the synagogue and sanctuary. I would like to acknowledge, t…
…children, we generally encourage people to wait until after their teenage years. In the days of the Temple, kohanim did not serve in certain capacities, and men were not subject to military conscription, until age 20. Jewish youths should begin wearing tefillin when they are able to treat tefillin with care and reverence. Tefillin contain parchments on which are written Biblical passages, much like a Torah scroll. A basic pair might cost over $30…
…of all the people. Imagine if the parshah has told us, tribe by tribe, the number of people in each tribe, and separately, the number of males, 20 and up, who were fit for service. Would that kind of census send a different message to us, a message saying, “everyone counts”, including all the women? The second census, what I’ll call the redemption census, I find a strange one. It requires counting of all the male Levites who were at least a month…
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