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85 Harrison Street, New Haven, CT 06515-1724 | P: 203.389.2108 | office@beki.org
…hat they think is attainable. It is not fair to oversimplify the process – doing so is itself a poor way to influence public policy. I do think clergy can, and should, play a significant role in the development of public policy, and that our religious values should inform our positions on civil questions. The Bishop’s attempt seems clumsy, but who am I to comment on internal Church issues. Their approach would have no chance of success in our sett…
…ars and my dentist on Emek Refaim Street in Jerusalem is one of the people doing research and leading the resurgence of the mitzva of petil tekhelet! In many schools, Jewish children learn VaYiqra as their first formal introduction to Torah study, just as they have done for generations. Jews have shown incredible dedication to learning Torah and studying the mitzvot, even those mitzvot like Temple sacrifices and wearing petil tekhelet and that we…
…ad things happened to Yosef but he ended up being a really good person and doing good things, because God helped him. I think that God still helps people grow and change. God helps me. Being Jewish is important to me because it has been a good way to learn about God and how to grow and change. I want to help make the world a better place and I want there to be peace in Israel and Jerusalem. I like to learn about holidays and learn Hebrew (which is…
…la.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1379. Want to know who is scheduled to lead the services? Consult the Service Leader Rotation Schedule to see who is doing what where on Shabbat Evenings, Mornings and Afternoons….
…the wilderness were winding down, and although Moshe was eager to continue doing what he had done so well for so long, the time was coming for Joshua to take charge. Moses wasn’t the right man to lead the people into 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 m…
…09 Mar Zoom Schmooze with Epidemiologist Dan Weinberger on new COVID research March 9, 2022 7:30 pm – 8:30 pm Home Page Interior Page Daniel Weinberger, a professor of epidemiology at Yale, will return for a second schmooze to talk about what we now know about COVID-19 . He […] More Info…
…computer will need to be woken up). In this case, rely on the opinion that doing a d’rabanan (or takanah-level) action on Shabbat can be performed as long as one does it “kil’achar yad,” which means, in a way that you don’t normally do it. Try using your non-dominant hand to click refresh; try sitting in a different position. This would render it halakhically acceptable. If the halakhic language seems abstruse to you, the value that we are going f…
…blasphemer was death, but he wanted to check with God, to make sure he was doing the right thing. Moses did not want to be accused of taking an innocent life. As a bat mitzva, I recognize that I am now responsible for the mitzvot, which Heschel calls “the antidote to evil,” and my actions as a Jew reflect on my family, this congregation, and the entire Jewish community. I also appreciate the privilege of speech and the responsibility I have to use…
…ave properly, to help our brothers and sisters is not conditional on their doing exactly the same. A midrash describes the fulfillment of a specific related Biblical law, a halakha de-Oreita, in this way: Rabbi Alexander said: Two donkey drivers were walking by the way and they hated each other. One of their donkeys sat down. The second driver saw it, but kept going. Then, after having passed, this second driver thought: It is written in the Torah…
…ons. The ones I have are just barely sufficient to keep me from saying and doing utterly ridiculous, embarrassing and dangerous things, and only much, but not all, of the time. Another reason is that drugs alter oneʼs perception of reality. As it is, I feel my grip on reality is tenuous at best. While some have noted that loss of connection to reality is not really such a great loss, given the state of reality, I have a commitment to remain engage…
