- 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
…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…
…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…
…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…
…mandment 613” Miriam Lewin and Rabbi Kevin Hale December 23, 2020 T’chiah: Spirit and Fire Leslie Klein December 9, 2020 Debt, Torah, and Bankruptcy Law Corey Stone December 2, 2020 Discussion of “I Am Not Your Negro” Facilitated by Jennifer Klein and Jim Berger November 11, 2020 BEKI USY vs Chess Master Jim Eade Jim Eade, Noam Benson-Tilsen, Aaron Bruce, Caleb Freiman, and Ethan Lavi November 4, 2020 Getting Personal: Yaron Lew Talks about Growin…
…10 Mar Abraham’s Tent March 10, 2015 5:30 pm – 11:30 pm BEKI Abraham’s Tent is a community-based program with Columbus House which, through the generosity of local religious congregations and organizations, provides shelter and case management for […] 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…
…11 Mar Abraham’s Tent March 11, 2015 5:30 pm – 11:30 pm BEKI Abraham’s Tent is a community-based program with Columbus House which, through the generosity of local religious congregations and organizations, provides shelter and case management for […] More Info…
…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…
…them, so close that we feel they reflect us, so close that we breathe our spirit into them, then we are sometimes more like the stern judge. And as that stern judge we give tzedaka without hesed, justice without mercy. We set strict limits and threaten stern consequences. Sometimes we have to – that mythical world of only-mercy did not survive. Could not survive. But we have to be very careful about those consequences too – because that other myt…
…ne who rebels [against God],” and Esau, who is the utter antithesis of the spirit of Jewish Civilization. Rashi, who lived some 900 years ago in France, explains Rabbi Shimon ben Pazi’s comment on the first verse of Psalms, “Happy is the one who has not walked in the path of sinners” by saying that this means one who does not “hunt with dogs for sport or entertainment צידת חיה על ידי כלבים וכל מעשיהם לשם שחוק ושמחה” (Talmud Bavli Avoda Zara 18b)….
