- 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
A unique place for Judaic Gifts. Everything you need for holidays and special occasions Special Event January 8: Liana Finck, author of Let There Be Light read more here Hours Sunday: 9:00-12:30 pm (During Religious School) Monday: Closed Tuesday: 7:00-7:45am and 5:30-6:15pm Wednesday: 5:00-6:00pm Thursday: 9:00-10:00am (After morning minyan) Friday & Shabbat: Closed And anytime by appointment. Please text Karen Kassap 203-430-2182 or call Harrie…
…Gay and Lesbian members” is really a simple question of law that does not need hundreds of pages of analysis. The halakhic answer is, “The RA may admit anyone it wants to.” This is not unlike the question, “May the RA admit rabbis who do not follow the rules of family purity (nida) (for which the restriction and punishment is on the same level as male homosexual acts), or who drive on Shabbat, are married to gentiles, wear a mixture of wool and l…
…er all, we certainly need spiritual redemption and salvation as much as we need political salvation. But our sages believed that we can be spiritually strong only when our material needs are met. For them this meant the absence of poverty and political oppression. Our sages saw the end of political oppression as a prerequisite to spiritual health, just as God saw the end of our Slavery in Egypt as necessary before we could begin to accept God’s mi…
…cities of Greece, and even twentieth century America? Surveying the large number of works in the BEKI collection entitled “Rabbi_,” the BEKI Art Committee began discussing how best to present this work in an exhibition. Among ourselves, we called this the “Rabbi Show,” although there is nothing in the artworks themselves to signify that these are rabbis, rather than ordinary men who have been given the honor of holding the Torah. As Jewish artist…
…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…
…s school education to all of its children, whatever their special learning needs. The breadth and quality of Shabbat and weekday programs for children and youth expanded, and the number of minors grew from under 70 in 1994 to over 225 a decade later. A typical Shabbat morning includes simultaneous programs or services for children and youth, as well as youth participating in the main service and Shabbat Shalom Torah Study. In 2003, the congregatio…
…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…
…that Arab expulsion of Palestinian Arabs from Kuwait is more than half the number of Palestinian Arabs who fled or were expelled from Israel in 1947-49. The “Jenin Massacre” (2002) turned out to be a hoax; while it was reported that hundreds or thousands had been massacred, the reality was that about 55 Arabs (including 5 or 10 civilians) died, along with 22 Israeli soldiers. The headline story in mid-August (2009) of the Swedish daily Aftonbladen…
…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…
…fgnh”; Click “Gale Ebooks”] New Haven Free Public Library films on Kanopy [Need library card] WiFi and Office Resources WiFi connection is available to members and guests in the Library, Lobby and surrounding areas (except on Shabbat and Festivals). An ethernet connection is available in the Library. How to Donate Books or Funds To donate funds, send your check made payable to “BEKI” with a memo “Library” or “Ari Nathan Levine Children’s Library” …
