- 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
…Exploration.” “How we think of pluralism, integrity, and community is so crucial to our world today – not only as Jews but as human beings,” said Rabbi Eric Woodward of BEKI. “I’m so excited to get to learn from Rav Eitan at the Elm City Kallah.” “It’s All About the Community”, jewishnewhaven.org, Aug 17, 2021 Downtown Evening Soup Kitchen (DESK) has sat nestled in the basement of the Center Church Parish House on Temple St. since the early-2000s…
…cracks, and he is forced to accept that his brothers are not wicked and inhuman and that they and he share a deep human bond. Hearing Judah’s courageous argument to spare Jacob the pain of losing Benjamin, Joseph weeps aloud and cries out, I am Joseph. Is my father still alive? His brothers are speechless, so frightened and confused are they by this strange turn of events. He says I am Joseph, your brother, whom you sold into Egypt. Don’t be grie…
…8-69. 4. Menahem Stern, in Greek and Latin Authors on Jews and Judaism, (Jerusalem: The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities) 1980, vol. II, p. 51, comments on the Statue incident (discussed below): “The possibility of active [i.e. violent] resistance was inherent in the logic of the situation and would have played a large part in the considerations of Petronius, the governor of Syria, who had to execute Gaius’ plan.” Prof. Mulford Q. Sibley,…
…intings. One of the founders of the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem, Avniel emigrated from Parychy (currently Belarus) in 1921. Relocating to Haifa in 1935, he founded a law firm while maintaining an active art career from his studio on Mount Carmel. Later, Avniel joined the Artists’ Colony in Safed and worked in a home studio there. Avniel’s style evolved over the years from detailed,realistic images executed in a variety of media…
…Klein is also well known for her work in fabric” painting, dying and constructing clothing and Judaic pieces. She constructs garments and objects of hand-dyed, airbrushed, silk-screened, and embellished fabrics to address her perspective on Judaic themes. Objects, wire, machine embroidery, photo-transfer and other complex cloth techniques conceptually allude to ideas, messages and symbols. Klein’s touring exhibition, “All That Remains: A Holocaus…
…depiction, the paintings reconsider the stories encapsulated in domestic structures, blurring the boundaries between material and meaning, photography and painting, truth and fiction. Born 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 i…
…o adopting a new siddur for Shabbat and festivals, BEKI is undertaking a redesign of the sanctuary to reflect BEKI’s values of inclusion, accessibility, egalitarianism, participatory communal prayer, and environmental sustainability. For more information, and to make a donation in support of this once-in-a-generation project, visit the Sanctuary Redesign page. Link coming soon! Number of siddurim you are dedicating Quantity* Price: $50.00 Quantity…
…longer receive divine blueprints for our synagogues, but we know that the design and furnishings of a synagogue can enhance our connection to God. That’s why I was excited when president Yaron Lew approached me about the plan to redesign the sanctuary at BEKI. We have the chance to actually model our sanctuary on our relationship with the divine and our connections with each other. One of the big changes to Jewish life that happened in twentieth-…
…upation. It has been demonstrated in history that occupation means foreign rule; foreign rule begets resistance; resistance begets oppression; oppression begets terror and counter-terror.” One of the four, Giora Neuman, spent a year in jail for his refusal. At his trial in July 1972 Neuman said, in part, the following: In January, 1971, news was made public in Israel concerning widespread resistance to the occupation regime in Gaza and drastic rep…
…rking black man who is sentenced to death in the electric chair. As Lenny Bruce once said, if the story had taken place in the 20th century, Christians would be wearing little electric chair pendants around their necks. But the movie does not develop those themes – it is merely an unending graphic display of human suffering, and if it is accurate, it was the fate of over 100,000 Jews during Roman occupation. So skip the movie, read the book. My re…
