- 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
…ograms. Rides for kids when their parent is unable to drive. An occasional phone call or visit to someone who lives alone or in assisted living. A cooked meals or groceries for someone recuperating from illness or surgery. Of course, we can’t provide regular nursing service or permanent carpooling, but we can extend a helping hand, and we should. How will this work? Well, were just getting started, and there may be some kinks till we work out the…
…, the Western Wall of the Temple in Jerusalem. The service provided by the phone company allows people unable to visit the Wall in person to fax their petitions to an agent who then carefully inserts the sheets into cracks between the stones. But you don’t even need a fax machine to reach God. Our sages valued sincerity in prayer above all else. Length, language, or location are secondary considerations. Better a few words from the heart than the…
…are, Maintenance and Renovation – The 32,000 square-foot building, built in 1959 and 1964, requires a great deal of attention, as does the grounds on which it stands. Skilled and unskilled volunteers are needed for every aspect of building management and operation, from planning renovations to weeding flower beds. Green Team: Conservation & Environment – Conservation, Environmental Awareness, Energy Efficiency, Recycling and related concerns are a…
…n’t look at the vessel, but at what’s in it. In other words, don’t judge a book by its cover. There’s a folktale that illustrated this pitgam: A young woman saw a very unattractive scholar enter her father’s house and muttered, “what a pity that such a beautiful mind is in such an ugly person.” The scholar overheard, and when they sat down to dinner he asked her, “why does your father serve his wine in a plain clay jar? Why not a silver pitcher?”…
…ose to believe. I recently saw the Broadway play Wicked. The author of the book Wicked, Gregory Maguire, writes books based on the point of view of an alternative character. In Wicked’s case, this character is the Wicked Witch of the West from L. Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. What would the story about the blasphemer be like if told from the perspective of the unidentified man? Would we learn that he was provoked, abused or misunderstoo…
…t meeting this week Office Devar Torah: TBA ~11:15a ~11:30a Sanctuary Minḥa 1p 1:35p Beit Midrash Havdala (Home Ritual) 7:10p or later Home Qever Avot Services Sun 6 October 2019 Sunday after Rosh HaShana Shaḥarit Morning Service 9:00a 9:35a Beit Midrash Qever Avot Cemetery Memorial Service 10:00a 10:15a Beth El Memorial Park, Warner St. Hamden Qever Avot Cemetery Memorial Service 11:00a 11:15a Keser Israel Memorial Park & Congregation Sinai Memor…
…he BEKI Ancestors’ High Holiday exhibition. Jessey credits Stacey Battat’s book, Thin Threads Real Stories of Survival & Recovery, with opening up her sense of our connections. She found so much inspiration in this book that she donated a copy to our BEKI Library. This year’s exhibition was the work of many hands, from scanning and editing photographs to runs to IKEA for frames, to editing the extensive labels, framing the photographs, and finally…
…makes it easier to experience God’s presence. In parashat T’rumah, in the book of Exodus 25:8, God tells Moses to instruct the Israelites to “make Me a sanctuary that I may dwell among them.” “Exactly as I show you,” God continues, “the pattern of the Tabernacle and the pattern of all its furnishings – so shall you make it.” We no longer receive divine blueprints for our synagogues, but we know that the design and furnishings of a synagogue can e…
…t meeting this week Office Devar Torah: TBA ~11:15a ~11:30a Sanctuary Minḥa 1p 1:35p Beit Midrash Havdala (Home Ritual) 7:10p or later Home Qever Avot Services Sun 6 October 2019 Sunday after Rosh HaShana Shaḥarit Morning Service 9:00a 9:35a Beit Midrash Qever Avot Cemetery Memorial Service 10:00a 10:15a Beth El Memorial Park, Warner St. Hamden Qever Avot Cemetery Memorial Service 11:00a 11:15a Keser Israel Memorial Park & Congregation Sinai Memor…
…t meeting this week Office Devar Torah: TBA ~11:15a ~11:30a Sanctuary Minḥa 1p 1:35p Beit Midrash Havdala (Home Ritual) 7:10p or later Home Qever Avot Services Sun 6 October 2019 Sunday after Rosh HaShana Shaḥarit Morning Service 9:00a 9:35a Beit Midrash Qever Avot Cemetery Memorial Service 10:00a 10:15a Beth El Memorial Park, Warner St. Hamden Qever Avot Cemetery Memorial Service 11:00a 11:15a Keser Israel Memorial Park & Congregation Sinai Memor…
