- 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
…the Jews chose God.” Listen to what Mark Twain wrote at the very end of the 19th century, in 1899, in his essay “Concerning the Jews”: If the statistics are right, the Jews constitute but one percent of the human race. It suggests a nebulous dim puff of star dust lost in the blaze of the Milky Way. Properly, the Jew ought hardly to be heard of, but he is heard of, has always been heard of. He is as prominent on the planet as any other people, and…
…dscapes of Israel summer 2022 Naomi Safran-Hon April – July 2022 Suzanne Neusner: Fiber Arts April – June 2022 BEKI Ancestors 2021 High Holiday exhibition Bruce Oren: Entropy Warriors: 50 year Retrospective January – March 2022 2020-2021 5781 2019-2020 5780 Leslie J. Klein: Spirit and Fire, A Retrospective Exhibition mid-January– June, extended due to gallery closure for the Pandemic Richard McBee: Paintings about the Binding of Isaac: Akeidah Ver…
…y to love, but to love with all that we are; with our heart, our body, and spirit. And yet how can we achieve such love if fear is the foundational emotion? In my experience fear doesn’t yield love, it, as Yoda warns, leads to anger and eventually to hatred. On Yom Kippur we read that Hashem is good and does good to all, sinner and saint alike. Depicted is a G‐d with eternal patience for all G‐d’s children, always calling those who have gone astra…
…haritable Giving Donna Levine, Lisa Stanger & Glenn Levine May 8, 2024 Part 1 Part 2 Visiting Israel After 10/7 Avital Sokolow-Silverman April 9, 2024 We Are All Climate Hypocrites Now Sami Grover January 16, 2024 Celebrating Gender Diversity in Jewish Tradition, Values and Theology Rabbi Dr. Jay Michaelson November 15, 2023 BEKI Green Team – Home Energy Audits Michelle Long November 1, 2023 Yom HaShoah – Holocaust Remembrance Day April 18, 2023 I…
…06 May First Fridays at Five-Thirty – Kabbalat Shabbat (in-person) May 6, 2022 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm BEKI Kids page Home Page Interior Page A New Approach to Kabbalat Shabbat. On the first Friday of April, Kabbalat Shabbat services will happen at 5 pm, a more kid-friendly time. Organizer […] More Info…
…01 Apr First Fridays at Five-Thirty – Kabbalat Shabbat (in-person) April 1, 2022 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm BEKI Kids page Home Page Interior Page A New Approach to Kabbalat Shabbat. On the first Friday of April, Kabbalat Shabbat services will happen at 5 pm, a more kid-friendly time. Organizer […] More Info…
…who care and support one another, are active in Tikkun Olam, have a great spirit of voluntarism, and serve as lay leaders. We also have an amazing new rabbi. He is vibrant, smart, thought-provoking, and the most menschlich person I have ever had the pleasure of working with. But our main sanctuary, which is in dire need of repairs, has an outdated hierarchical design from the 1950s and ’60s. It doesn’t reflect our values of inclusiveness and envi…
…d G-d makes animals only after realizing the human needs a companion [2-18, 19]. They can’t both be true. In a literal sense. Either the plants came first, then animals, then humans. Or the humans came first, then plants, then animals. Only one chronology is possible. Things happened in one order or the other. But the Torah says: here they both are. Why wasn’t one of them cut? Whether the editor of the Torah was human or divine the question is the…
…29 Aug Kadima Reverse Tashlikh River Cleanup August 29, 2021 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm BEKI Kids page Home Page Interior Page Get into the spirit of the month of Elul, as we prepare for the High Holidays by cleaning up our local community. This is Kadima’s […] More Info…
…to denial, anger, fear, or guilt. This does not mean that I went through it 100% anxiety-free. I felt my will assert itself, however, from a level deeper than any anxiety. When my best medical alternative quickly became clear, my deeper energies turned foremost to communicating with those around me. In service of this powerful need, I found within me an unusual calm and lucidity. These helped me to reach out to those close to me in special ways bo…
