- 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
…ifth question added to this year’s traditional Passover four questions: To buy? Or not to buy? Jews face having to find Passover foods without Stop & Shop, www.newhavenindependent.org, April 12, 2019 The Stop & Shop at 112 Amity Road, which was open Friday but picketed by striking workers, offers a large selection of foods that are kosher for Passover because of the Jewish population in and near the Westville section, which isn’t as large as it on…
…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…
…13 Jan Racial Justice Film Discussion “Traces of the Trade: A Story from the Deep North” via Zoom January 13, 2021 8:00 pm – 9:00 pm Home Page Interior Page Traces of the Trade schmooze 1 13 21 copy 2 More Info…
…schedule of our region linked to our Service Schedule page. Go to https://www.beki.org/worship/daily-services-and-other-holidays/ to find the link. Want to preview the next newsletter? Past, current and future editions of the BEKI Bulletin are available at https://www.beki.org/calendar-events/news-happenings-and-beki-bulletins/. Find out what happened or is going to happen. A Message from Rabbi Tilsen Doing it the Hard Way – Part 2 In last month’…
…. Turn RIGHT on US-1 = Boston Post Road = Orange Avenue. Proceed west for about 1 mile. Pass a few streets on right. On right, pass Fairfax St.; pass Ardale St; next is Farwell. Farwell goes to the right (north) only. There is a small directional sign for “US Post Office” at the corner and a gas station. Turn RIGHT (north) on Farwell Street. The cemetery is 1/2 block ahead on the right….
…EKI members, guests and visitors. By Car From New York Via I-95: Take I-95 North to right Exit 43 “Downtown West Haven” (Route 122, Campbell Street). At bottom of exit ramp turn LEFT onto Campbell (=Route 122); pass under underpass (North toward New Haven). Begin clocking 3.5 miles. After 9/10 of a mile road ends at a traffic light after Hess Gas station on Right (Route 1 = Orange Rd.) with little Forest Theater in front of you. From middle lane,…
…ence that would last two and a half years. Dganit and her husband moved to North Carolina in 1992. During her time there, Dganit worked as a teacher for low-income pre-school children in Chapel Hill, and later taught undergraduate Hebrew at Duke University, while creating art as a self taught artist. After some years, she became a full time student at UNC Chapel Hill. In the summer of 2006, Dganit moved with her family to Philadelphia. She earned…
…uld not afford a chicken, they ate a shtekele fish. But today chicken is cheap, meat is mundane. Unless you really like chicken, to fulfill the mitzva of making a Shabbat meal special in our day, you might have to eat Kosher Chinese. To take a historical, but only slightly less trivial, example, we note that at the beginning of the twentieth century, the Conservative rabbinate was condemned for the radical innovation of presenting sermons in Eng…
…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…
…isciples asked the Besht why he had stopped in the middle of his prayer to buy wood, and he answered that during his prayer he saw that in heaven there was an accusation made against the Jews who live in the villages that they cheated the gentiles in their accounts. He had to silence the accuser. As a result of the gentile’s praise of the Jews the arguments of the accuser were silenced.6 Here, the Besht’s act of generosity constitutes Qiddush HaSh…
