- 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
…through the overpowering spectacle of seeing God, that he is one with the scoundrels and nobodies he scorns, even with the wicked he wishes God would punish. Yet in a way, Job’s arrogance saves his life. His wife urges him to “curse God and die.” Instead, he has the temerity to call God to account. Job does not, as Satan predicted, curse God to God’s face. Rather, he rails against the absent God, the one who is unseen, unheard, unfelt except thro…
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…liers. “Waldszenen” is a series of drawings inspired by the darker 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 s…
…iews in the weekly Pumpadita Review of Rabbinic Works, for the reasons I described. The value placed on open discourse and respect for minority opinions is very much a manifestation of the classical (pardon the expression) liberal belief that truth is inherently more powerful than falsehood, and that truth can best be arrived at through an open process. This belief in the power of truth is not readily verifiable through scientific analysis, and ou…
…l the quality of the materials and calligraphy. We take out the particular scroll or scroll that is set to the portion that we are reading on the given occasion. The weekly reading goes in sequence, so each shabbat we begin reading from the spot we left of the previous week. But on festivals and other occasions we may read from another place, and so to prevent tirha de’tsibbur (imposition on the congregation) we do not roll the scrolls while every…
…e state of repair of your bicycle, and your religious outlook. Whether you come by Schwinn or Chevy or Hush Puppies, we are always happy to see you in shul. Dear Rabbi, I learned giving gifts is not permitted on Shabbat. If this is so, how can people bring food to other people’s house on shabbat, if they are giving it? Religious people do that all the time. Signed, Don’t Give a…gift Dear Don’t Give, If food is brought, it is usually understood…
…16 Jan Tu Bishvat Seder via Zoom January 16, 2022 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm BEKI Kids page Home Page Interior Page Tu Bishvat Seder: An online celebration of the New Year for Trees on Sunday, Jan. 16 from 6:30 to 7:30 pm. To fully participate, have […] More Info…
…the Renaissance onward, but drawn from contemporary life. Cell phones and computer screens perform functions that windows once performed for Rembrandt van Rijn and Vermeer, and indeed, sometimes mirrors perform the same function they had in the works of Diego Velasquez and Jan van Eyck. Another way in which references to masterpieces disturb and animate Wolf’s paintings is in the way his paintings utilize the interplay of gazes within their borde…
…17 May Walk Against Hunger – Team BEKI May 17, 2015 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm Walk Against Hunger – 2015 flyer Walk Against Hunger – Sunday, May 17. In support of the CT Food Bank. We’re getting a BEKI Team together […] More Info…
…igurative form in abstract images. Judaism informs Oren’s art, “Just as it informs nearly everything I do to some degree. We are, after all, just ridiculous collections of our combined experience.” Watch Bruce’s video of the making of his Moshe marble sculpture Read reviews of Bruce Oren’s show in the news A Beaver Hills Sculptor Carves Through The Chaos, newhavenarts.org, Jan 10, 2022 Thou Shalt Go With The Flow, newhavenindependent.org, Dec 17,…
