- 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
…41° 19′ 43.10″ West 72° 57′ 41.80″ and is about 70 feet (21 meters) above sea level. Candle lighting times are calculated for that location and are rounded back to the nearest minute so the lighting time will be 18 to 19 minutes before the halakhic (Jewish legal) definition of sunset. The halakhic sunset will be about one minute later than civil sunset. If you are within New Haven or its surrounding towns your recommended lighting time will be wi…
…10 Apr Pesah Festival Morning Service April 10, 2015 9:15 am – 11:15 am Pesah Seventh Day Festival Morning Service, 9;15a – 11:15a, Sanctuary. Includes reading of “Shirat haYam,” the Song of the Sea, in the Torah reading. More Info…
…gkindness.” For it is written, “Lovingkindness I desire, not sacrifice” (Hosea 6:6). Here we have a message from God, relayed by the Prophet Hosea through Rabban Yohanan ben Zakkai, Rabbi Natan, and the authors of our Conservative prayerbook: acts of lovingkindess take the place of sacrifice in our relationship with God. Ma-nora! How awesome! What does this message about acts of lovingkindness tell us? From the deep past, the voice of the Eternal…
…familiar symbolic images embedded as decorative elements. “All That Remains” will next be presented at the Virginia Holocaust Museum, Richmond, VA, in October 2020. The works in 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 wor…
…e project stalled out—and, because plans for the Westville building showed seating with no separation between men and women, some traditionally Orthodox members sued. The lawsuit was eventually settled, and the Orthodox members got the name “B’nai Israel.” The Westville building was built at Whalley Avenue and Harrison Street, across the street from the original site, and was dedicated on the weekend of 24-26 June 1960. The new congregation called…
…KI kitchen does not permit the use of any animal-derived gelatins. And the last time I looked, Yoplait had a plain “K” symbol, which is not an acceptable indication of rabbinic supervision. This product would not be accepted for use in the BEKI kitchen. Dear Rabbi, Quick question: Kids want a cat. Is kitty required to keep kosher? Signed, Kitty Query Dear Cat Kashrut Questioner, Cats can keep kosher but are not required to. Keep the cat chow out…
…d …roughly equal to the amount of heat stored by the oceans as a result of seasonal heating in a typical year. That makes it a big number. In other words, as a byproduct of human exploitation of the land and other natural resources, we have crammed 51 years of solar heat into 50 years of solar time. I cannot help but feel that the earth will make up for this in due course, that the land will have its rest. The environmental responsibilities of eac…
…speaks for itself. You’ll note also that today’s parasha resounds with the number seven – the seventh year is the sabbatical year- the seven days of Passover, the seven weeks until the Feast of weeks, etc. At some point during this last year I looked around the table and realized- “We are seven women — one teacher and six students.” Coincidence? Book of Ruth Let me move on to The Book of Ruth. I’d like to make some remarks about the story that res…
…h a pitgam, a Hebrew aphorism. She would post a new one every week on the classroom wall, often with a story to illustrate the message. Over the course of the school year, the kids would memorize a fair number of these. The sayings she chose reflected her particular take on Judaism, which tended to the ethical rather than the spiritual. In cleaning out her apartment last year, my sister Naomi and I came across some of these sayings, which I’ve bro…
…ch so that they are forced to live in small groups wandering the desert in search of resources. Thus, the wandering harems create a network with which to locate these resources. The commonality between the monkey network and the Israelite court network is a matter of distributive authority. Again, Moshe spread his decision-making authority among the lower courts, alleviating the overflow of court cases. The monkeys make a network to deal with the…
