- 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
…29 Jan Kid Friendly Havdalah with Rabbi Eric & Annie (Zoom) January 29, 2022 6:00 pm – 6:30 pm BEKI Kids page Home Page Interior Page When children’s programs moved online for the month of January, we began gathering on Saturday nights for online Havdalah. Families can bring their own candles […] More Info…
…to be able to coordinate BEKI’s effort in this worthwhile project. SIGN UP ONLINE AT: tinyurl.com/ATatBEKI2020 AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. Your help is needed in all of the following ways: Volunteer to help shop before and during the hosting week Volunteer to help cook dinners and/or breakfasts before or during the hosting week Volunteer to help serve dinners and/or breakfasts Volunteer to dine with our guests one or more nights Volunteer to lead an acti…
…embers will contribute to promoting art at BEKI. Click here for a list of sale prices On view since early January, the exhibition continues through April 4. Videos of the artist discussing her work: Artist Talk, Mayim Chaiyim: A Watershed – video online excerpted from group online talks, curated by Amy Levine-Kennedy at the Koslow Gallery 2022 Techspressionist Salon #21– video online artist presentation, Cynthia Beth Rubin & Renata Janiszewska Jul…
…nting Holocaust survivors in their pursuit of justice from the French rail company has resulted in a $60… More Info In-person & Zoom Service May 17, 2024 7:00 am More Info Kabbalat Shabbat May 17, 2024 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm More Info BINA Graduation Shabbat May 18, 2024 9:15 am – 11:45 am More Info Shabbat Service May 18, 2024 9:15 am – 11:45 am More Info Children’s Havura, K-2 Kehila, Junior Congregation May 18, 2024 11:00 am – 12:00 pm More I…
…09 Jun Zoom Tea Tasting June 9, 2021 8:00 pm – 9:00 pm Home Page Interior Page Caroline Keogh from New Haven Tea, producer of artisanal blend flower teas, which is located here in Westville, will lead us in a tea tasting […] More Info…
…tores Job’s wealth twice over. His brothers and sisters and former friends come to his home, share a meal and comfort him for the misery God heaped on him. That’s a sharp contrast to his previous, fenced-in life, when his children feasted without him. Job has ten more children. This time, unlike before, we hear about his life with them: about his pride in his daughters, the sensuous names he gives them, the inheritance he bestows on them along wit…
…The court, convinced of his sincerity, offered him the option of doing non-combat service, but he refused as that would make him an accomplice to their violent acts. Finally, in an effort to close the case, the court instructed the physician for the medical examination to declare Joseph ‘unfit’ on the record, irrespective of his actual condition. When Joseph found that the unfitness report was untrue, he threw away his exemption card. Eight years…
…a summer as an intern (pastoral field worker) at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York. During my nineteen and three-quarters years serving congregations in Connecticut, I have counseled hundreds of families facing death or grieving a loved one, have attended numerous individuals at their hour of death, and have prepared the dead for burial. I have experience in guiding families and medical workers in deciding whether to “pull the pl…
…ething that might be hard depending on context – a Google search turned up coming out as Canadian, as a cancer-survivor, as a neo-con, as an atheist. So this is the meaning of the text: be honest with yourself in all that you do. Lying with a man as with a woman is a metaphor for lying to yourself, (perhaps the English resonance of lying is not coincidental!), for not facing the truth of your life and sharing it with others. If we are not honest w…
…istant hope of reconciling with his brothers. I think, too, he may want to come to terms with his own role in the events of that awful afternoon many years ago. So he faces a complex problem. Shall he just tell them who he is and forgive them? No, he could not be ready for that. Shall he pretend he doesn’t know them and treat them like anyone other supplicant? Shall he exact vengeance on them for what they did to him? I think he does not yet know…
