- 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
…bbat lunch or for the High Holiday meals. (BEKI provides clients with free tickets for High Holiday services.) In the summertime, Kulanu participants may have a joint program with one of BEKI’s social action committees—they will clean up Beaver Pond Park in southern Connecticut, where congregants have held Tashlich services during Rosh Hashana. Kulanu also plans to provide a job training sight at BEKI for adults with developmental disabilities who…
…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…
…06 Dec Drive-By Food Collection December 6, 2020 10:00 am – 11:00 am Home Page Interior Page ONLY in the BEKI parking lot. Help with the immediate and desperate need for non‐perishable and non‐expired food (cans and boxes) to local food insecurity […] More Info…
…01 Nov Drive-By Food Collection November 1, 2020 10:00 am – 11:00 am Home Page Interior Page ONLY in the BEKI parking lot. Help with the immediate and desperate need for non‐perishable and non‐expired food (cans and boxes) to local food insecurity […] More Info…
…18 Oct Drive-By Food Collection October 18, 2020 10:00 am – 11:00 am Home Page Interior Page ONLY in the BEKI parking lot. Help with the immediate and desperate need for non‐perishable and non‐expired food (cans and boxes) to local food insecurity […] More Info…
…donate 100% of the sales to BEKI for many of the works in the exhibition. Non-members may designate the donations from their sales to BEKI Tikkun Olum projects that are non-denominational in nature, such as providing meals for Columbus House. Sales to BEKI members will contribute to promoting art at BEKI. Click here for a list of sale prices On view since early January, the exhibition continues through April 4. Videos of the artist discussing her…
…d in Acco 850 years ago, French was the predominant language in Jerusalem. None of this is to deligitimize Arab claims; after all, most of Israel’s Jewish population is descended from immigrants from Arab countries, Africa and Europe. The fact that my great-great-great grandfather Dov ben Ze’ev lived in northern Israel does not give me a “first come” claim over people who subsequently lived there. But the notion that Arabs are somehow more “native…
…rdained and found productive rabbinic careers (which is true in all of the non-Conservative movements as well). The Ziegler school has said that it intends to welcome openly Gay and Lesbian rabbinical students; JTS is in the process of reconsidering its policy,and is widely expected to eventually accept openly Gay and Lesbian students to the Rabbinical School. Openly Gay and Lesbian students have been welcome in the undergraduate and graduate prog…
…about an individual Jew, but about Jews in general: Jews find these treif (non-kosher) foods disgusting! So be aware of that! Don’t give beef to a Hindu, don’t give rats to an American, and don’t give crab to a Jew. That’s what the Torah is telling us. And so the Torah says, “to you.” These things are impure to you, these things are disgusting to you. The Torah says “to you” because these things are not impure or disgusting in any absolute or obje…
…have done something to improve things, too. They should have asked him to stop telling about his dreams. The brothers should have told him — “could you please talk about something else, because we know our father loves you best and it really hurts our feelings and if you keep talking about it, we’re going to do something bad to you.” And that’s what they did; they made plans to kill him and instead sold him as a slave. What they did was awful. Th…
