- 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
…in Oxford, England, Safran-Hon grew up in Haifa, Israel. She received her B.A. in Studio Art and Art History summa cum laude from Brandeis University in 2008, and her M.F.A. from the Yale School of Art in 2010. Safran-Hon attended Skowhegan in 2012 and Art Omi in 2016. She was a 2019–20 Workspace Resident at Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. Safran-Hon had solo exhibitions at Slag Gallery, New York, RX Gallery, Paris, Brandt Gallery, Amsterdam, a…
…ada’ and the length of this devar Torah. So tonight let’s drown out Haman’s name, do lots of meshigas, and have some fun. Ḥag Sameaḥ….
…anzimat and Shari`a in the British Mandate and the Jewish State, (Leiden: E.J. Brill) 1978, pp. 56-57. 7 Granott, 1952, pp. 90-91. 8 Granott, 1952, p. 93. On the various provisions for mawat in the main Sunni schools, cf. Ali Abd Al-Kader, “Land Property and Land Tenure in Islam,” Islamic Quarterly, 5 (1959) pp. 6-7. 9 Granott, 1952, p. 87. 10 Eisenman, p. 56. 11 Abd Al-Kadr, p. 8. Cf. Eisenman, p. 54 and Granott, 1952, p. 80. 12 Hon. Mr Justice T…
…bi Aaron Shuchatowitz began his service as the Congregation’s rabbi in 1935. Mr. Louis Friedman became its shamash (ritual director) in 1946. By the 1940s and the end of World War II, a second generation, American born, had come along. Post-war prosperity had prompted movement away from the geographic area of the shul, and attendance at Rose Street was decreasing. Redevelopment In 1955, under the administration of Mayor Richard C. Lee, the City of…
…esentation, Cynthia Beth Rubin & Renata Janiszewska July 06, 2021 More information and additional links at: CBRubin.net…
…ed system, and suggested to Moshe a better alternative, so must we recognize the inadequacy of our current electrical system and do something about it. Thank you friends and family for being here and sharing this day with me. Shabbat Shalom. Email Tsvi Benson-Tilsen tsvibt@gmail.com. For more information on Tsvi’s Photovoltaic project at BEKI, see The sun will shine on BEKI bar mitzva, by Howard Blas, Connecticut Jewish Ledger, 6 January 2006 A Hi…
…tion is invited and must be included in the calculation of number of guests. a. Sponsoring Kiddush prepared by BEKI Kiddush Team This fee (prices as of March 2024) includes a dairy buffet lunch, announcement and publication of sponsorship, wine & grape juice, setting up and clean-up of the room, trash removal and standard custodial services. These BEKI volunteers can manage up to 50 invited guests in addition to the congregation; for larger events…
…s, each member of our shul community will be asked repeatedly to help support the shul. As Rabbi I see every day how this community makes a real difference in the lives of many people. It is my hope that, in the words of our Torah, “every person shall give as they are able” (Deut. 16:17). When Grampa Ed and his brothers left the card table with $50 or $100 less than they came with, they still felt like winners. They knew that even if they did not…
…rvice. Now began to develop an 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….
…” Dear Rabbi, The siddur (prayer book) instructions say that the Shema [p. 100-103 in Sim Shalom] should be recited silently except for the first line. But sometimes we sing it out loud. Why is that? Signed, Can Hear O Israel Dear Can Hear, The Shema is, ideally, recited out loud, at least loud enough for the reciter to hear him- or herself. The instruction “silently” refers only to the one line “barukh shem…, praised be…,” which is not part of…
