- 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
…ademy, Kadima-USY, Makom, JTS, MERCAZ, Masorti-Israel — and above all our own family — these are the institutions that we must support. No one else is going to Jew it for you….
…ion. My mother tells me that her Zadie was a very religious man who prayed daily. In his old age, she asked him why he had such strong faith and he told her about the miracles in his life. He was a soldier in the Austro-Hungarian army in WWI, when he was shot and seriously wounded. As the army lines were retreating, he was abandoned by his comrades, who left him chocolate to ease his death. Lying in a barn, bleeding from his serious wound, he was…
…Thursday Shaharit Morning Service, 8:15a to 9:15a, in the Beit Midrash. Includes Torah reading, relaxed pace, commentary, free coffee and tea, morning snack after service. See Schedule of Daily Services….
…Shaharit Service תפילת שחרית Monday mornings 7a-7:50a in the George G. Posener Daily Chapel (Beit Midrash); coffee and tea before and after service. Includes short Torah reading (weekly reading)….
…identifying people wear a head covering in the sanctuary and beit midrash (daily chapel). Head covering for female-identifying folks is optional, but required when called to the reader’s table. A skullcap (known in Hebrew as kippah or in Yiddish as yarmulke) may be found near the entrance to the sanctuary. You will notice most Jewish adult males and many Jewish adult females wearing a prayer shawl. Since this is a religious item, visitors who are…
…onor Anna Rubin, Rebecca Goldman, Mrs. Harry Kagan, Mrs. Bessie Miller, Mrs. F. M. Pashall, Mrs. Nathan Sosensky, Mrs. David Rosen, Mrs. Henry Galin, “Aunt” Scheitelman, Mrs. Rose Langer, Mrs. Joseph Feinstein, Mrs. George Miller, Mrs. Bessie Stephson, Mrs. Harry Kimel, and Mrs. Harry Diamond. May these good ladies be spared with us and for us many, many years and may have much joy of the future glory of Keser Israel. Within the past few years a N…
…, some 750,000 Arab and Bedouin residents fled or were expelled (official U.N. figure: 711,000), some by the urging of local Arab leaders, some by foreign Arab leaders, and some by local Jewish forces. Many of those persons bore greater or lesser responsibility for their fate. Some of them fled from areas that were at the end of the war under Arab, not Israeli, rule. The majority (over two-thirds) of these displaced persons simply resettled elsewh…
…all of us can live in 602 square feet?” (Jerusalem Report, 30 March 2009, p. 13). (For reference, BEKI’s George G. Posener Daily Chapel is about 1,000 square feet.) Farmer Ahmed might also find that another Israeli Arab family is already working “his” land, or that his former farmland is now a fish pond, highway interchange or shopping mall. In the past 60 years, Israel has become about as developed as Connecticut. The world has changed. In short,…
…l the BEKI office at (203) 389-2108 x114 or email the office at office@beki.org. To arrange a visit or for more information, email Education Director Annie Norman-Schiff at anormanschiff@beki.org. BINA is supported by the The Gladys R. Lipkin Fund for the BEKI Hebrew School, The George & Leah Posener Endowment for the Jewish Education of BEKI Youth, the Louis Friedman Scholarship Fund and the Rabbi Andrew Klein Scholarship Fund, tuition, and the B…
…–Pesach Break– May 1 May 15 May 29 To register for Teen Kesher or for more information, contact Annie Norman-Schiff at: principal@beki.org or Rabbi Woodward at: rabbi@beki.org …
