- Congregation Beth El–Keser Israel
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85 Harrison Street, New Haven, CT 06515-1724 | P: 203.389.2108 | office@beki.org
…nd Spiritual Emancipation Please Don’t Leave Don’t Call Me Non-Orthodox My Great-grandfather Wasn’t Orthodox Will the “Real” Judaism Please Stand Up? – Rosh HaShana 5757 – 1996 Challenge & Acceptance – Kol Nidre 5768 — 2007 Life in America & the World The Long Night – March 2020 Something Beautiful Left Behind (Video) – April 2020 All the Money in the World (Video) – May 2020 Apocalypse: Been There, Done That – August 2019 You’re Going to Hear Abo…
…ue gatherings became moments of enthusiastic spontaneous story-telling during the exhibition. Ellen Cohen George Cohen, grandfather Boston, MA circa 1907 Isaiah D. Cooper Paul Cooper, father Bronx, NY 1932 Laura Myers Yakerson Mordechai Lubovitz, Great-Grandfather Lithuania circa 1912- 1920 Ivan Alvarez Mario Alvarez, Paternal Grandfather El Salvador 1935 Jay Brotman Baruch Cohen 3x-great-grandfather Lithuania pre 1880 BEKI Reconnects With Ancesto…
…ook at who is giving an account of this G‐d, the community whose text this great work of scripture belongs and consider what in their experience would lead them to such a theology. The psychoanalyst Greg Mogenson, in his work G-d Is a Trauma, insists that a “traumatized soul is a theologizing soul,” a statement to which I can personally attest. And it cannot be denied that the Israelites fleeing the harsh slavery of Egypt were indeed traumatized…
…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…
…contract, to the end that Jewish traders in those times could operate with greater security. So here’s my overall point. Today, the power grid in America is, shall we say, 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…
…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…
…y 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 congregation began a process of building renovations, aimed at improving accessibility, enhancing energy efficiency…
…d by the Good Book: “While the flesh was still between their teeth,” etc. (Numbers 11:33). Partly for that reason we are enjoined to wait a period of time after eating meat before eating dairy. But after some time, the “food” in your mouth (and stuck on or between your teeth) ceases to be “food.” Who would eat it? If your toothbrush is used at that point, it is not really in contact with “meat” or “dairy” and thus, strictly speaking, you would not…
…more about educational and cultural activities at BEKI and throughout the Greater New Haven Jewish Community. The atmosphere of the Ḥavura is intimate, warm and informal, with ten to twenty people participating in a typical monthly event. It is a great place to meet people, but it is not a “singles’ scene” like one might encounter at a large Jewish singles’ dance. The 20s-30s Ḥavura was established in the Summer of 2000. Like most activities at B…
