- 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
…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…
…14 Sep Heart of the New Year Meditation with Robin Goldberg, DMD September 14, 2019 12:45 pm – 2:00 pm Home Page Interior Page Come enjoy a guided meditation to bring us into the Days of Awe. Robin Goldberg DMD has been teaching Heart Rhythm Meditation since 2012. Because […] 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…
…rch 1, 2021, Rabbi stepped into the role of BEKI’s Interim Rabbi. While in New London, Rabbi Astor was president of the New London Clergy Association, a faculty member at Connecticut College, a member of the chaplaincy board and ethics committee at Lawrence and Memorial Hospital, and a mohel. Rabbi Astor’s first pulpit was in Wayne, New Jersey, where he served for 7 years. His prior experience as an interim rabbi was in 2015-2016 at Shaarei Tikvah…
…, 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…
…their own history and let Jews live on the Jewish reservation in peace. If Americans can claim the right to regulate the migration of Mexicans into Texas and New Mexico, or any of the millions who in theory should have just as much right to live on these shores as the native born, then surely Israel, like any society, has a right to define itself and protect itself from inundation by larger surrounding ethnic groups. Some “working groups” of Israe…
…Use of our building for lifecycle events Meal deliveries for families with new babies Newcomers Group BINA (our religious school) Teen Kesher USY and Kadima youth groups Free High Holy Day tickets Support from our Hesed Committee Shiva minyanim Choice of two affiliated cemeteries Programming for children and adults All Jews are invited to become members of BEKI, including: Jews by birth and Jews by choice (converts) Jews in mixed marriages and cou…
…Use of our building for lifecycle events Meal deliveries for families with new babies Newcomers Group BINA (our religious school) Teen Kesher USY and Kadima youth groups Free High Holy Day tickets Support from our Hesed Committee Shiva minyanim Choice of two affiliated cemeteries Programming for children and adults All Jews are invited to become members of BEKI, including: Jews by birth and Jews by choice (converts) Jews in mixed marriages and cou…
