Congregation Beth El–Keser Israel

85 Harrison Street, New Haven, CT 06515-1724 | P: 203.389.2108 | office@beki.org

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  • Calendar
    https://www.beki.org/calendar-events/calendar/

    …M – Menorah Lighting 1 9:00 AM – In-person & Zoom Service (Federal Holiday Service Time) 9:00 AM – Office Closed 4:00 PM – No BINA 5:45 PM – Menorah Lighting 5:45 PM – In-person & Zoom Service 2 8:15 AM – In-person & Zoom Service 9:00 AM – Torah Study 5:45 PM – In-person & Zoom Service 3 7:00 AM – In-person & Zoom Service 5:00 PM – Kabbalat Shabbat 4 9:15 AM – Shabbat Service 11:00 AM – Children’s Havura, K-2 Kehila, Junior Congregation 7:00…

  • Conscientious Objection to Military Service in Israel
    https://www.beki.org/dvartorah/conscientious-objection-to-military-service-in-israel/

    …organized movement of selective objection, i.e. objection not to military service per se but objection to service in the occupied territories or even, occasionally, objection to service at all in what was now seen as an army engaged in an illegal or immoral occupation.8 As one student, about to be drafted, put it in 1979, “It’s not clear to me which side I’ll be on in the various confrontations with the Palestinians. If I’m told to help put down…

  • Rabbi’s Annual Report June 2013
    https://www.beki.org/dvartorah/rabbis-annual-report-june-2013/

    …s many either moved away or grew up and went to yeshiva, college, military service, volunteer service, employment or other activities. During the past twenty years, the number of children has grown from under 70 to over 210. Nine youths became benei mitzva in celebrations at BEKI in FY13 (compared to eleven last year and ten the prior year). The nine do not include those who held ceremonies at locations other than the synagogue or who became of ag…

  • BEKI In the News
    https://www.beki.org/calendar-events/beki-in-the-news/

    …ith Special Needs, by Dorine Leogrande, Connecticut Jewish Ledger, 13 March 1998, p. 3. More BEKI News & Info News Articles 1996-2000 Candle Lighting Times Divrei Torah by BEKI Members Distinguished Service Award Recipients…

  • Nonviolent Resistance of the Jews to Roman Occupation in Israel 26-41 C.E.
    https://www.beki.org/dvartorah/nonviolent-resistance-of-the-jews-to-roman-occupation-in-israel-26-41-c-e/

    …anger, since his reaction speaks for itself. For immediately, without even waiting until the next day, he wrote to Pilate, reproaching and rebuking him a thousand times for his new-fangled audacity and telling him to remove the shields at once and have them taken from the capital to the coastal city of Caesarea (the city named Sebaste after your great-grandfather), to be dedicated in the temple of Augustus. This was duly done. In this way both the…

  • Parashat Huqat Devar Torah
    https://www.beki.org/dvartorah/parashat-huqat-devar-torah/

    …ch in too short a time, And G-d lashes out. Moses and Aaron know That this time, Unlike last time, The anger is too extreme To be spoken to. When Moses tells Aaron To take the fire pan and incense And run into the midst of the community, He also tells Aaron why: “for the fury has gone out from before the L-rd.” The word for “fury” here is qetsef, which Robert Alter tells us connotes a “foaming wrath,” an almost animalistic anger. Moses and Aaron h…

  • Bulletin June 1997
    https://www.beki.org/bulletin-june-1997/

    …Tiqun Leil Shavuot Sweeter than Honey Night of Adult Study Yizkor Memorial Service Festival Morning Services Feature Hallel & Ruth Ezra Academy Shabbat Torah Pathways Adult Education Classes Notice of Annual General Meeting Letters Sisterhood News LifeCycle Devar Torah by Drew Allison Men’s Hevra Qadisha UHS Graduation & Promotion Ramah New England Alumni Sought Seizing the Moment by Rabbi Ismar Schorsch, Chancellor of JTSA Stutz Memorial Builds B…

  • Parashat BeHar: My Jubilee
    https://www.beki.org/dvartorah/parashat-behar-my-jubilee/

    …ar…. Jewish ritual may be characterized as the art of significant forms in time, as architecture of time…. The main themes of faith lie in the realm of time. My second teaching commitment has taken the form of leading Cosmic Conversations monthly on Shabbat mornings – Cosmic Conversations, the name our Shabbat morning children’s services coordinator, Anne Johnston, has bestowed upon the Torah study group for our 6th to 8th graders. My commitment b…

  • Shabbat Pesah 5761: My Bat Torah Observance
    https://www.beki.org/dvartorah/shabbat-pesah-5761-my-bat-torah-observance/

    …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…

  • Prayer & Synagogue Ritual
    https://www.beki.org/dvartorah/prayer-synagogue-ritual/

    …, How does the repetition of the Amida work? It seems to be different each time I’m at services. Signed, Amida Amida Dear Amida, The Amida or shemona esrei prayer, a part of each service, is repeated in the presence of a minyan (quorum) during shaharit (morning), musaf (additional) and minha (afternoon) services, but not during maariv (evening) service. There are two ways this can be done, at the discretion of the officiant or shaliah tsibur (read…