- 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
…th lists start with a broad thing to give up and then narrow it down: list number one — go from your land, your birthplace, your father’s house. List number two — take your son, your only son, the one you love, Isaac. This similarity led me to still others. One of the first, and most obvious, comparisons between the two instances of lekh lekha was that in both, God is sending Abraham on a journey. In the first lekh lekha, God is starting Abraham o…
…ll do it that way, too. But this procedure often created a dilemma: If the number of qaddishes was limited, there might still be some who did not get to say one; if there was no limit to the number of qaddishes added, the service became burdensomely long. So after careful scrutiny the rabbis allowed all mourners to say qaddish simultaneously. This rabbinic solution was adopted only after careful consideration, and after it was determined that mour…
…l farm or house is often physically impossible, or would mean displacing a new vast population of Israeli Arabs. The adherence to a “right of return” is akin to the notion of the resurrection of the dead, a religious view held deeply by many, including some Jewish sects. If there is bodily resurrection, what happens to people who had multiple spouses, missing body parts, or chronic pain? Are all the dead who once lived in my house coming home? Tho…
…ically “Beautiful Israel” a priority. And at home it means we must make Conservative institutions such as BEKI, Camp Ramah, Ezra Academy, United Hebrew School and the Jewish Theological Seminary our top priorities. It is here where the “tire meets the road” and a new generation is trained in what “Judaism” was, is and will be. As we redouble our own efforts to build a strong Conservative community in Greater New Haven, let us be appreciative of th…
…07 Apr Author talk: “A Thousand Kisses: A Family’s Escape from the Nazis to a New Life” with Jack Weiser (plus Yom HaShoah yellow candle lighting) April 7, 2021 8:00 pm – 9:00 pm Home Page Interior Page More Info…
…09 Mar Zoom Schmooze with Epidemiologist Dan Weinberger on new COVID research March 9, 2022 7:30 pm – 8:30 pm Home Page Interior Page Daniel Weinberger, a professor of epidemiology at Yale, will return for a second schmooze to talk about what we now know about COVID-19 . He […] More Info…
…18 Apr POSTPONED (new date TBA) – Shabbat Shmooze with Laurie Wohl April 18, 2015 12:45 pm – 2:00 pm Laurie-Wohl-poster More Info…
…23 Mar Lev Shalem: Getting To Know the New Siddur with Rabbi Woodward & Katharine Baker (Zoom) March 23, 2022 7:30 pm – 8:30 pm Home Page Interior Page More Info…
…at the Haifa Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, and P.P.O.W Gallery, New York. In 2020 Safran-Hon was a recipient of the BRIC Colene Brown Art Prize. Safran-Hon’s art can be viewed on her website, www.naomisafranhon.com At BEKI, Two Artists Channel Visions Of Home, by Al Larriva-Latt Review of exhibitions by Suzanne Neusner and Naomi Safran-Hon Her work was reviewed by Seph Rodney for the New York Times in 2020…
…11 Jan Learn New Shabbat Melodies January 11, 2023 7:30 pm – 8:30 pm Events Come learn melodies for Shabbat morning davening! Some of our regular leaders will teach favorite tunes, so that we can sing them with more confidence […] More Info…
