- 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
…s-Part2.mp3 Hallel — Celebratory Psalms Hallel – Simple (part 1) https://www.beki.org/wp-content/uploads/08-Track-8-Hallel-Simple.mp3 Hallel – Simple (part 2) https://www.beki.org/wp-content/uploads/09-Track-9-Hallel-Simple-part2.mp3 Hallel – Elaborate (part 1) https://www.beki.org/wp-content/uploads/10-Track-10-Hallel-Elaborate-part1.mp3 Hallel – Elaborate (part 2) https://www.beki.org/wp-content/uploads/11-Track-11-Hallel-Elaborate-part2.mp3 H…
….com/2017/01/02/2-dead-in-new-haven-after-carjacking-ends-in-crash/ http://www.wfsb.com/story/34164686/names-of-2-men-killed-in-stolen-suv-synagogue-crash-released http://www.courant.com/breaking-news/hc-new-haven-carjacking-crash-20170102-story.html WTIC (Fox 61). Courant https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNj9MYYDLPA WTNH News 8 http://wtnh.com/2017/01/02/new-haven-fatal-wreck-creates-gaping-hole-in-synagogue/ News 8 http://wtnh.com/2017/01/04/cr…
…02 Dec JCARR Jelly Donuts Bake December 2, 2018 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm BEKI Kids page Home Page Interior Page JCARR Jelly Donuts: Learn to bake sufganiyot before Hanuka, Sunday 2 December, 1p – 3p in the BEKI kitchen. $18 per family unit, you will […] More Info…
…ood. For this is what Hillel warned against: One who uses Torah for personal gain perishes. (Avot 4:7) For information on BEKI’s kashrut policies, see www.beki.org under “kashrut.” For communal standards, see www.kinahara.org….
…e written Torah. Indeed, in a few places, the Torah mentions its companion oral document in using phrases like “as I have told you.” As important as is the Written Torah, it is the Oral Torah that is the unique treasure of our people. Anyone can read the Torah and guess what it means, but someone who has heard the oral explanation from the source has a much fuller ability to understand its meaning. As Socrates put it, “One must be really ignorant…
…orms are now being posted to the website for 24-hour access. Go to https://www.beki.org/resources/forms/. The forms are in Acrobat .pdf format. Need to know a yahrzeit (death anniversary)? Our yahrzeit records are now available at www.beki.org at “yahrzeits.” The information available includes the name of the deceased, date of death according to the Hebrew Calendar, and the corresponding date in the civil calendar from last Rosh HaShana to the end…
…f blessed memory in the dedication on the inside front cover. Our website, www.beki.org, went up in 1997. Every issue of the BEKI Bulletin is available on-line going back to June 1997. Go back and look – we all sure looked goofy back then; now we all look very dignified. According to Google Analytics, our web site gets over 100 visits per day. Seventy-five percent of visits are by new visitors; 25 percent are returning visitors. The heaviest traff…
…d why we chose this day to come before you. Whereas on Passover there is a prescription with regards to how much we are told to give as an offering, on Shavuot, this is one of the few times — maybe the only — where one is asked to give a free will offering, as much or as little as one is able. It was much like this in our group. We came from varying levels of readiness for this experience. Two of us did not know how to read Hebrew at all when we s…
…semi-literate and accustomed to a traditional society in which custom and oral evidence were sufficient to support an individual’s claim to property.17 Landholders saw no great need to register their claim and often did so only when they wanted to sell it to another party.18 Indeed, the peasants had strong incentives to not register or to under-register their land. One incentive was the tradition of mistrust of or opposition to government — what…
…ethical sensitivity and sincerity. A study done in September 1983 on the moral judgment of 36 reservists who had served jail sentences for refusing to serve in Lebanon found that 30 of them exhibited a high level of moral development in reaching their decision to refuse (levels 4 to 5 on a modified Kohlberg scale of 1 to 5).38 In sum, it may be said that the incidence of identifiable conscientious objection among Jewish Israelis was for the most…
