- Congregation Beth El–Keser Israel
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85 Harrison Street, New Haven, CT 06515-1724 | P: 203.389.2108 | office@beki.org
…proposals that would halt, limit, or curtail refugee resettlement in the U.S. or prioritize certain refugees over others; and urge President Trump and the U.S. Congress to instead take bold leadership by providing robust funding to support refugees around the world as well as provide necessary resources to refugees who are already resettled in the U.S. Most importantly, the Conservative Movement completely rejects the targeting of individuals bas…
…04 Apr Pesach Chocolate Orders Due April 4, 2022 12:00 pm BEKI Kids page Home Page Interior Page Pesach chocolate: Becky May is arranging a bulk order of Kosher l’Pesach Pareve Fair Trade chocolate: chips, bars, or minis. Orders received by Monday, April 4 will […] More Info…
…10 Apr Chocolate Pick-Up April 10, 2022 9:00 am – 12:00 pm Home Page Interior Page Pesach chocolate: Becky May is arranging a bulk order of Kosher l’Pesach Pareve Fair Trade chocolate: chips, bars, or minis. Orders received by Monday, April 4 will […] More Info…
…culture, one ought to work to change them. Your Culture, your Synagogue — Love it or Change it. But please don’t leave it. ©Jon-Jay Tilsen…
…aftir, but not only are we to remember, we are also told that we must not forget. “You shall erase the memory of Amaleq from beneath the heavens, you shall not forget.” By this the sages tells us that we must not only remember orally, we must also not forget in our hearts. We’re commanded to read this passage before Purim because our tradition identifies Haman as the descendant of Agag, King of Amaleq. So the wiping out of Amaleq is linked to the…
…eem related, but bear with me! I am wearing a tallit with petil tekhelet, i.e., the blue thread on the fringes. Some people have this blue thread and some have all white threads for fringes. During the time of the Temple most men wore tzitzit with a blue thread. When the Temple was destroyed two thousand years ago and the Jews were scattered, people forgot which animal was supposed to be used to make the blue dye. Men stopped wearing the blue thre…
…ave no one to stand up for them: the non-citizen, the widow, the fatherless. Use honest weights and measures in trade. I want to look at a few verses from the parasha that seem at first unconnected to life in New Haven, and relate them to a project were starting at BEKI, a project that I hope you will participate in. If it thrives it will help us become an even more caring community than we are now. If you see your fellow’s ox or sheep gone astray…
…e Sachs Family. See “It’s a Mitzva, or, Yes We Can!,” Bulletin May 2013, p. 13. The drinking fountain in the classroom wing is not readily accessible to people using wheelchairs. The main building is carpeted with low-pile or no-pile carpet, including the Rosenkrantz Library and the George G. Posener Daily Chapel – Beit Midrash. The classroom building is not carpeted. The linoleum floor is kept clean. The lower levels, including the Lower Social…
…hat these others were raising; it was just not appropriate behavior in a house of shiva. I was unable to effectively change the subject back to what should have been the topic, despite my best efforts. I note that I did read the “Talk to Your Friends” section of “The Art of Paying a Shiva Call” in the BEKI Yizkor Memorial Booklet, which clarifies the proper halakhot; but you did not address the “what to do if confronted with idle conversation at a…
…arity pawns or sells their cloak and buys oil for lighting. Shulhan Arukh O.H. 571 Lighting the Hanuka lights is so important that a poor person is instructed to take on additional hardship to do it. The Shulhan Arukh says the poor person ought to make whatever sacrfice is needed to fulfill this mitzva. Everyone in our Congregation can afford Hanuka candles or oil. Lighting is very inexpensive in our country. But consider that for most of human hi…
