- 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
…26 Jan New Haven Beit Midrash (off-site) January 26, 2023 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Events The Jewish Obligation to Repair and Restore. “And God placed the Man in the Garden of Eden, to work it and protect it,” a call […] More Info…
…27 Mar Learning New Shabbat Morning Melodies March 27, 2023 7:00 pm Events A second evening of melodies for Shabbat morning davening. Other regular leaders will teach favorite tunes, so that we can sing them with more confidence and spiritual […] More Info…
…27 Jan Tu BeShevat Celebration (part 2) with Caroline Scanlan from New Haven’s Urban Resources Initiative via Zoom January 27, 2021 8:00 pm – 9:00 pm Home Page Interior Page TuBShevatSchmooze1 27 21 copy 2 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…
…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…
…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…
…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…
…, 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…
…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…
…el invisible anymore. One day I was speaking with my brother-in-law on the phone. I was talking about BEKI (which by this time I had joined) and the feeling that I have here. And I confided in him that one day I’d like to get up on the bima and read from the Torah. And as I said these words I began to tremble. The very thought was overpowering to me. To even think of myself as playing such an honored role among Jews seemed so bold. Who was I to ge…
