- 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
…ntsher became the first of the 50 students to be sent to jail, also for 28 days.27 The subsequent week saw two demonstrations on behalf of the jailed objectors, a small one in Tel Aviv and a larger one of about 250 people, organized by Yesh Gevul along with the students, near an entrance to the Gaza Strip. These demonstrations were reported in the Hebrew press and received extensive coverage in at least one Jerusalem Arabic daily.28 In the last we…
…used, they fell prone all round his house and remained motionless for five days and nights. The next day Pilate took his seat on the tribunal in the great stadium and summoned the mob on the pretext that he was ready to give them an answer. Instead he gave a pre-arranged signal to the soldiers to surround the Jews in full armour, and the troops formed a ring three deep. The Jews were dumbfounded at the unexpected sight, but Pilate, declaring that…
…r Israel (BEKI) in New Haven. The 90 books – siddurim, machzorim (High Holiday prayerbooks) and chumashim (The Five Books of Moses) – were destined to go to a congregation in need, with the help of Kulanu, an organization that helps “isolated, emerging, and returning Jewish communities” around the world through education, research, networking, and fundraising. BEKI finds the right new rabbi in Eric Woodward, jewishledger.com, June 15, 2021 Raised…
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…e Day of God, and that God created everything in all its potential on that Day. From that day on, it follows that, as my daughter Sarah has recently begun quoting Martin Buber in the tag line to her email messages — To produce is to draw forth, to invent is to find, to shape is to discover. **************** In addition to learning and teaching, I also increased my involvement in various BEKI projects. I would like to focus on two – the removal of…
…Drop your donations in the box in the BEKI Lobby anytime through Memorial Day Weekend. Or, you can deliver clothing or gift cards to Emile’s house in East Rock. Contact his mother, Njeri Thande, at nkthande@gmail.com * Monday, May 27, 7 PM: Lag BaOmer Kumsitz: Campfire, S’mores, and Singing Celebrate Lag BaOmer–the 33rd day of the Omer, a traditional Jewish day of joy and outdoorsiness–in the BEKI courtyard! We will have a campfire, s’mores, and…
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…h the functions of the priests; that is to say, it deals with the tangible day-to-day reality of the Jewish religion while the Temple stood. The rest of the Torah has historical, philosophical, and legal interest to Jews of the Temple period, but VaYiqra, as a guidebook to sacrifice and the atonement of sin, contained an immediate, practical, concrete blueprint for how to get right with God. This was the owner’s manual of the Jewish way of being i…
…roduced on its own roof-top arrays. The breadth and quality of Shabbat and weekday programs for children and youth expanded, as the number of minors in the Congregation grew from under 70 in 1994 to over 225 a decade later. A typical Shabbat morning includes simultaneous programs or services for children and youth, as well as youth participating in the main service and Shabbat Shalom Torah Study. George G. Posener with Leah z”l A significant gift…
