Congregation Beth El–Keser Israel

85 Harrison Street, New Haven, CT 06515-1724 | P: 203.389.2108 | office@beki.org

Our banner is based on BEKI’s stained glass, designed in 2008 by Cynthia Beth Rubin. For information on this and other of Cynthia’s work, go to: <a href="http://www.cbrubin.net" target="_blank">www.cbrubin.net</a>. Artisan Fabrication by JC Glass of Branford, CT

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  • 20’s/30’s Havura Garden Tour
    https://www.beki.org/events/20s30s-havura-garden-tour/

    …29 Oct 20’s/30’s Havura Garden Tour October 29, 2017 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Home Page Tour Yale’s Marsh Botanical Garden, Sunday 10/29: This little hidden gem is open to the public for free, with free tours on the last Sunday of each […] More Info…

  • Material and Spiritual Emancipation
    https://www.beki.org/dvartorah/material-and-spiritual-emancipation/

    …sing seem to be a treadmill. Would that our Board and active volunteers be free to focus on our spiritual mission of Torah, Avodah and Gemilut Hasadim. It is with this in mind that we ask BEKI members and supporters to envision our shul with a well-maintained renovated building and an adequate endowment that would allow us to focus on our spiritual mission. God freed you from slavery in Egypt so that you could do God’s work in the world. Help us b…

  • Film Discussion: “I Am Not Your Negro”
    https://www.beki.org/events/film-discussion-i-am-not-your-negro/

    …11 Nov Film Discussion: “I Am Not Your Negro” November 11, 2020 8:00 pm – 9:00 pm Home Page Interior Page Launching BEKI’s film and discussion series about racial justice, we’ll discuss the film “I Am Not Your Negro,” a 2016 award-winning documentary, narrated by Samuel L. […] More Info…

  • Parashat Huqat-Balaq
    https://www.beki.org/dvartorah/parashat-huqat-balaq/

    …s and our traditions. The times we live in right now are very good. We are free and privileged. We are welcome in mainstream society. More than that: we have considerable impact on it. The danger is that we might intermarry and assimilate until there’s nothing left of Judaism to preserve. In the century just past, an extraordinary percentage of Nobel prizes were awarded to Jews, and Jews earned distinctions way out of line with our numbers — in re…

  • The Afro-Semetic Experience
    https://www.beki.org/events/the-afro-semetic-experience/

    …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…

  • Kadima at Adventure Park
    https://www.beki.org/events/kadima-at-adventure-park/

    …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…

  • Parashat BeHar: My Jubilee
    https://www.beki.org/dvartorah/parashat-behar-my-jubilee/

    …irit. In Pete Seeger’s words, It’s the hammer of justice, It’s the bell of freedom, It’s the song about love between my brothers and my sisters, All over this land. In our time, Pope John Paul II has declared the Millennial Jubilee as an occasion for apology and seeking forgiveness for the wrongs committed against Jews and others during the past thousand years. I know that many Jewish spokespersons have criticized the Pope for not having gone far…

  • Isaiah’s Message of Teshuva & Healing
    https://www.beki.org/dvartorah/isaiahs-message-of-teshuva-healing/

    …lieve that the book of Isaiah was written during the Babylonian exile by a number of people in addition to Isaiah. Isaiah himself was a prophet of the nation of Judah and was one of the first to leave a written record of his prophecies, or proclamations. The book of Isaiah is one of the longest in the Bible, containing sixty chapters. The sayings of Isaiah are contained in the first 39 chapters. Most of the rest, written around 550 BCE, were poems…

  • Food, Kosher, Kashrut, Kosher for Passover
    https://www.beki.org/dvartorah/food-kosher-kashrut-kosher-for-passover/

    …ametz is gone. Signed, Compulsive Kitchen Cleaner Dear Compulsive, Pharaoh freed the slaves. This means that Pesah is supposed to be a happy holiday. Joy on the festival is a halakhic (legal) requirement. As the Good Book says, “You shall rejoice on your festivals.” Clean is not the same as kosher, although they are related concepts. If you put in two to three times your normal weekly effort into cleaning (assuming you do clean regularly), then it…

  • Domestic Violence in Classical Halakhic Sources
    https://www.beki.org/dvartorah/domestic-violence-in-classical-halakhic-sources/

    …nsgresses a prohibition, as Scripture states, “Do not add [to the required number of lashes]” — if the Torah warns not to add blows to a guilty person, how much more does this apply to an innocent person. Even to raise one’s hand against another, even if one doesn’t actually hit him or her, is called wicked, as Scripture states, “And he said to the wicked one, Why do you hit your neighbor?”7 Rabbenu Perez, in his decree, cites a responsum of Rabbi…