- 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
…led-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/cruisers-are-spotted-following-car-before-fatal-crash/ News 8 Paul Bass interview Rabbi Tilsen on his visit to Standing Ro…
…ociation of Industrial Management; Association of Steel Distributors; Yale New Haven Hospital; Union and New Haven Bancorp; Northeast Bancorp; New Haven Colony Historical Society; Jewish Family Service; National Conference of Christians and Jews; and Connecticut Business and Industry Association, among many others. Both Lou and Pat served as presidents of the Congregation. The Goodwin Brothers Endowment was originally established as the Robert Goo…
…ing the year in the local, Jewish and national press. See “The Shul in the News” at www.beki.org/newsindex.html. Youth Programs Nine Benei Mitzva Observances Contingent of 18 Attend Camp Ramah Shabbat & Festival Children’s Programs Thrive Youth in Israel BEKI boasts award-winning Kadima and USY youth groups. Fifty percent of the Regional Board members are BEKI youth. President Shayna Weinstein, with commissioners Rena Cheskis-Gold and others invol…
…us school. The fortunes of the times, however, ceased smiling. The City of New Haven hired a new Superintendent of schools who introduced a program of racial integration before it became a popular notion. For many years, Sheridan Junior High School in the Westville area, with a largely white student body, had a relatively high academic standing. Some of the Sheridan children were to be bused to other areas of the city. Many parents, including cong…
…store the prosperity of the agriculturalists,” writes Tute, “that the Land Code of 1858 was framed. …It is clear that this legislation could only be given effect to by setting up a system of land registration.”13 The Land Code of 1858 was thus soon followed by the Tapu Law of 14 December 1858 which provided for the issuance of title-deeds. “Procedures for registration, not only of old title, but also of transfers, inheritance, vivification of mewa…
…shul community. I grew up Modern Orthodox, so over time I have learned to “code switch” between being both frum and secular. I live in New Haven now and hope to become a member of one of the teams for Kiddush. If I could find a fellow member who shared a particular hobby or interest, maybe someone who’s artistic; I love seeing plays and I’ve been playing cello since 4th grade. Jonathan Cohen & Shayna Schor and Caleb Listed from tallest to shortest…
…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 BEKI A major gift by Eleanor E. Stutz Lowell in memory of her father, Frederick L. Stutz, alav ha-shalom, will establish the Frederick L. Stutz Memorial for the purchase and installation of a modern, full-featured telecommunication system. Frederick…
…980, p. 3. 10. For example, see Blatt, p. 112. 11. Blatt, pp. 116-118. 12. New York Times, 1 Aug. 1982, p. 12:3. On the Eli Geva story, see for example New York Times, 27 July 1982, p. 8:6, and 29 July 1982, p. 14:3. 13. For the text of the letter see Ishai and Dina Menuhin, eds., Gevul Hatzivut (The Limits of Obedience), (Tel Aviv: The “Yesh Gvul” Movement and Siman Kri’a Books, 1985), p. 175. The letter, while criticizing the government’s war po…
…Her work has been written about in the New York Times, Art In America, Art New England and many regional newspapers. She has been the recipient of numerous awards and grants, including two from the Connecticut Commission on the Arts, a Weir Farm Art Center Residency, two full residency grants to the Vermont Studio Center and two Artist In Residence Grants from the International Festival For The Arts, New Haven, CT. She served 4 years as the direct…
…ges, obligations, burdens, and celebrations. Ze me-ze, from one another. A new book by Mark Oppenheimer, a Yale alum who is current editor in chief of the [New Haven] Advocate, is about to be published. The book is called Thirteen and a Day, and it’s a look at contemporary American Judaism through the institution of the bar- and bat-mitzva. Mark visited a lot of synagogues to see how they handle their benei mitzva preparations and celebrations, an…
