- 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
…osener has presented each student with a gift at the annual Graduation and Promotion Exercises. Seeing the continuing success and growth of the School and sensing the need for assured funding, he established the George G. & Leah E. Posener Endowment for the Jewish Education of BEKI Youth in May 1997. To express their appreciation, the students, alumni, parents and faculty of the School designated Shabbat morning 17 May 1997 as the Religious School…
…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…
…by tradition. For candle lighting times for the New Haven Area, enter ZIP Code 06515 at Candlelighting Times Guide. For candle lighting times and additional time parameters, see MyZmanim for New Haven and adjust elevation to 21 meters where applicable. The bottom left of the screen provides a date menu. For a Hebrew Calendar Add-on with candle lighting times for Mozilla Firefox, see https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1379. Want to kno…
…ant us to do with her? She doesn’t know the language! She doesn’t know the code! What are we supposed to do with her?” “What does God say?” she asks. I listen. God doesn’t say anything. He won’t tell them to let me in. He doesn’t interfere. He’s just smiling. “Why is he smiling?” she asks. I think that God finds it amusing in some way…his children amuse him. And I think He’s smiling because he knows it’s not time, for them or for me, and that I ha…
…HaMoed? Signed, Prayerful Dear Prayerful, Yes. According to the early law code `Arba Turim (“The Tur”), O.H. 188, “…[O]n Rosh Hodesh and Hol HaMoed we say in it [birkat hamazon] ‘ya`ale veyavo’ and if Rosh Hodesh or Hol HaMoed falls on Shabbat we say ‘retsei vehaHalitsenu’ and afterwards ‘ya`ale veyavo.’ We do not mention Shabbat in ‘yaele veyavo’ nor Hol HaMoed or Rosh Hodesh in ‘retsei vehaHalitsenu.’ Rabbi Yosef Karo in Beit Yosef comments tha…
…s mitzva is so important that the Shulhan Arukh, the sixteenth-century law code that serves as the common base for modern law, describes the obligation in this way: ‘ One needs to take great care in lighting the Hanuka lights; even a poor person subsisting on charity 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…
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Domestic Space June 1 – September 14 2024 Exhibition viewed by appointment only Contact office@beki.org Doron_Wolf_Domestic Space – price list The Letter, painting by Doron Wolf The history of art invades and merges with private life in the paintings of Doron Wolf, which explore contemporary spaces of domesticity through the lens of timeless masterpieces of art history. Each work is a composite of several images, some of them taken from life…
2023-2024 5784 Anna Broell Bresnick: Four Stops Along an Artistic Path June 24 – September 3 2022-2023 5783 BEKI Ancestors: High Holiday Exhibition 2022 Cynthia Beth Rubin: Sensing Connections, Retrospective Exhibition January – March 2023 Dganit Zauberman: Land in Flux April – June 2023 2021-2022 5782 Belle Kogan Greenberg: Celebrating a Lifetime of Creative Work summer 2022 Mordecai Avniel:Landscapes of Israel summer 2022 Naomi Safran-Hon April…
November 25, 2024 – March 23, 2025 Breaking Ground for what was then B’nai Israel synagogue. Photographed by I.A. Sneiderman. About 1960 or 1959. Notice the shovels in the picture. One of the actual shovels is currently on exhibit at BEKI. The BEKI Art Gallery is celebrating the history of the Congregation through an exhibition of historic photographs, copies of newspaper clippings, portraits of past leaders and members, and related materials. Th…
