- 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
…redesign. The upgrades should bring less noise (thereby improving acoustics), better air quality, and improved energy efficiency— potentially reducing BEKI’s carbon footprint and operating costs. Replacing the single-pane sanctuary windows with energy-efficient glass will offer many design possibilities for increasing natural light and beautifying the room. Other themes, including financial questions, emerged in response to the open questions at t…
…6 to 37 C.E.6 The first account, from War 2:175-203 (Williamson translation),7 was written during the 70s of the first century.8 The reader’s attention is called to the italicized passages. As procurator [Greek: “hegemon”] of Judaea Tiberius sent Pilate, who during the night, secretly and under cover, conveyed to Jerusalem the images of Caesar known as standards. When day dawned this caused great excitement among the Jews; for those who were near…
…Gelbert, et al. Part One: Beth El According to Jews in New Haven (vol. 2), edited by Dr. Barry E. Herman, published by the Jewish Historical Society of Greater New Haven, several Jewish families in the Congress Avenue, Washington Avenue, Commerce Street and York Street area felt the need to establish an additional traditional congregation in the late 1800s. The existing synagogues were already overcrowded. In 1891 they formed a group for the pu…
…ree or disagree. The Law Committee can issue teshuvot (legal determinations), and we can adhere to them or not. I have never heard of any synagogue being expelled from the United Synagogue for any policy violation, except failure to pay dues. Our religious heritage, as documented by the Mishna and other rabbinic texts, endorses the values of free speech, intellectual integrity and democracy. Individual sages were allowed to teach whatever they act…
…r side of Schuberts composition of the same name, Op. 82. Birds (my subject), like people, but unlike any other species, are able to traverse the globe’s oceans and landmasses. These birds, however, are now traversing a new landscape – that of an increasingly degraded one. Wall Sculptures The rest of the smaller wall pieces are abstractions focusing on merging a verity of materials such as wood, rice paper, paper, fur, metal and shells. Combining…
…after a specified time such lands were then declared uncultivated (mahฬฃluฬl), thereby transferring full legal title to the State.41 In these ways antagonisms between Jews and Arabs — which continue to a great degree to center on the issue of land — were exacerbated. The Ottoman Land Codes and Laws of 1858 and 1859, then, were issued in order to assure state control over the lands of Palestine and to increase state revenues from those lands. For a…
…one set of standards and share our resources such as mashgihim (supervisors), and to ensure a market for any vendor we certify. It means that our work does not have to depend on a single rabbi, and we constitute a large body of rabbis who are not trying to “compete” with each other. It has been noted that some non-Conservative rabbis will not accept our certification. It is also true that many of those same rabbis also don’t accept the certificati…
…Performance by: Yoni Hirshfeld https://www.beki.org/wp-content/uploads/Song-1.mp4 Performance by: Jon Stone https://www.beki.org/wp-content/uploads/Song-2.mp4…
…BRIC Colene Brown Art Prize. Safran-Hon’s art can be viewed on her website, www.naomisafranhon.com At BEKI, Two Artists Channel Visions Of Home, by Al Larriva-Latt Review of exhibitions by Suzanne Neusner and Naomi Safran-Hon Her work was reviewed by Seph Rodney for the New York Times in 2020; read the review at www.nytimes.com/2020/05/15/arts/design/naomi-safran-han.html Three doors into my blue heart in pink and orange Prices on Request. For in…
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