- 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
…18 Apr POSTPONED (new date TBA) – Shabbat Shmooze with Laurie Wohl April 18, 2015 12:45 pm – 2:00 pm Laurie-Wohl-poster More Info…
…ed the Plymouth Church on Chapel Street and Sherman Avenue to serve as our new Temple and Synagogue Center. Louis Scherban and Goodwin D. Wolff assisted in the negotiations, Abraham Gubin, Samuel A. Smith and Louis Kasimir took over the heavy responsibility of the pew arrangements. Several of our families memorialized Windows and Classrooms in cherished memory of their departed ones. Martin Janow, David Ordansky, Milton Potash, Morris Oppenheim, F…
…battle. A new era was about to begin. New leadership was taking over, with new objectives and a new style-but the same core values and the same shared history. I’m not saying that I’m Joshua to Stephen Pincus’s Moses, but there is a modest parallel. What happens in the governance of a synagogue isn’t about any individual’s wishes or achievements. It’s about strengthening the community. It’s about balancing change and continuity, for the good of th…
…07 Apr Author talk: “A Thousand Kisses: A Family’s Escape from the Nazis to a New Life” with Jack Weiser (plus Yom HaShoah yellow candle lighting) April 7, 2021 8:00 pm – 9:00 pm Home Page Interior Page More Info…
…ople who, for fear of repercussion, from internalizing what we hear on the news every day (this week’s attempt to create a Federal Marriage Amendment being a prime example), are unable to be honest with themselves or others about the truth of their lives and loves. This is a text about honesty. Remember, at one time, the language of “coming out of the closet” referred to something that gay people did. Now it’s a generic term for being open about s…
…other words, a free will offering. The spirit of Shavuot is also one of renewal of commitment, the taking on of the Torah. It was in that spirit that we’ve carried on and come before you today. Additionally, we read in the notes for the text that in many congregations, Shavuot is the time when children are initiated into the formal study of Jewish religion and Hebrew language. Some temples give children their first siddur [prayer book] at this ti…
…ou all. Please help us again, this time by passing along our thanks to the number of congregants who are away this weekend of Thanksgiving, giving thanks of their own elsewhere. The morning of the surgery I prayed and learned another prayerbook lesson, this time explicit. At my request, Marsha had brought me a copy of our Siddur, Sim Shalom. Uncharacteristically, I admit, I started from the beginning of the Shaharit, or morning, service. There I d…
…, a very complex distribution network. The way it operates is by a certain number of power plants producing energy, usually by burning fossil fuels, and then feeding it into the massive grid of electrical power lines. I think this is quite similar to the societal structure of the monkeys and the medieval Jewish court system, in that the majority of interactions, or in this case, power transmissions, are local, but the network is able to transmit p…
…26 Sep Pizza in the Hut September 26, 2021 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm BEKI Kids page Home Page Interior Page Pizza in the Hut returns! The party is Sunday, September 26 at 4:00pm in the BEKI courtyard sukkah. Reservations are due to the office by September 22, $10/adults, $5/child […] More Info…
…28 Jul Elm City Winds Quintet Concert – BEKI Courtyard July 28, 2021 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm BEKI Kids page Home Page Interior Page Jennifer Sidney Silva, flute; Caesar Storlazzi, oboe; Laura Caruthers, clarinet; Adrienne Gallagher, bassoon; and Emily Fine, French horn, will perform Wednesday, July 28 at 7:00 pm. […] More Info…
