- 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
…tifying the space, for example, by covering the cinder blocks. How will we pay for it? Cost-effectiveness is a primary goal of the redesign plan, but there is no question that it will come with a significant price tag. We hope to raise a substantial amount of money through grants and government programs that benefit non-profit organizations. We also hope that every BEKI member will contribute to this once-in-a-generation project. Read here about o…
…nd said “As the Lord lives, the man who did this deserves to die! He shall pay for the lamb four times over, because he did such a thing and showed no pity.” Nathan said, “That man is you!” What Nathan meant was that Batsheva was the lamb because King David had caused the death of her husband. To understand the intensity of Nathan’s statement, one must know that sheep were something that people might have an emotional attachment to. King David, Mo…
…lled from the United Synagogue for any policy violation, except failure to pay dues. Our religious heritage, as documented by the Mishna and other rabbinic texts, endorses the values of free speech, intellectual integrity and democracy. Individual sages were allowed to teach whatever they actually believed, even if it was not in keeping with the majorityʼs view. The sages could speak their minds and vote their consciences. It is true that the Stat…
…holiday All-occasion cards and artwork mugs, tea towels and prints by local artist Karen Kassap. Support a local institution. No need to pay shipping or wait several days for delivery….
…s, and to have this redound to the benefit and future of our community, is a great one. Will it cost us financially in the near term? Yes. Will it pay dividends in the future? Ken y’hi ratzon! May it be God’s will….
…asters from the Renaissance onward, but drawn from contemporary life. Cell phones and computer screens perform functions that windows once performed for Rembrandt van Rijn and Vermeer, and indeed, sometimes mirrors perform the same function they had in the works of Diego Velasquez and Jan van Eyck. Another way in which references to masterpieces disturb and animate Wolf’s paintings is in the way his paintings utilize the interplay of gazes within…
…hose name I won’t mention was even more of a scoundrel. I should hope that the death panels are bi-partisan, or even better non-partisan, anyway. To avoid creating any appearance of favoritism, cronyism or conflict of interest, I pledge that if you help me in my quest I will never pay you back with a political or personal favor, or do anything that could be interpreted as supporting your career or otherwise compromising your appearance of independ…
…ave given a devar Torah in a top hat? Sometimes it appears that Shai isn’t paying attention to conversations around him, while in truth, he is always listening. He may be playing, or singing, or making up a story about the circus, but he still hears what is being said around him. Last autumn, my grandparents were preparing to sell their house, which was next door to ours, and move to Florida. None of us had directly told Shai that they were moving…
…posqim see things differently. Mutually exclusive options are the price we pay for this democracy and diversity. With respect to the question of accepting Gay & Lesbian rabbis, there are three decision points: the rabbinical schools, the Rabbinical Assembly (RA), and the shuls and schools that hire rabbis. In the past, many quietly Gay and Lesbian rabbis have been ordained and found productive rabbinic careers (which is true in all of the non-Cons…
…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…
