- 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
…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…
…en advantage of the exemption for Yeshiva students.1 From the immediate pre-state period until 1970, only a little over 100 Jewish Israelis publicly declared their positions as conscientious objectors and draft resisters. For the most part these were individuals who had commitments both to some form of Zionism as well as to nonviolence. As there was no official government policy towards these people, they were dealt with on an individual basis. In…
…bstractions focusing on merging a verity of materials such as wood, rice paper, paper, fur, metal and shells. Combining contrasting materials, the fragile and the strong, mass and no mass, allows for a complex relationship within each piece. Unifying the material is an essential part of unified the content. About the Artist: Anna Broell Bresnick has exhibited her work numerous museums including the de Cordova Museum, Berkshire Museum, LACE, Stamfo…
…ations. We also hope that every BEKI member will contribute to this once-in-a-generation project. Read here about our planned approaches to fundraising. Join me, donate now! As I wrote to the congregation in December, I have made an initial donation of $10,000 to the sanctuary redesign campaign. I hope everyone will follow my lead and donate generously. You will hear more about financing and fundraising in the coming months. We will ask everyone t…
…ouise Elizabeth “Betty” Holden Stutz, brother Robert, daughter Eleanor, son-in-law Jeffrey Lowell and grandson Galen Frederick Lowell. In making this contribution, Eleanor explained that she wanted to express her gratitude for the blessings of life, love and wisdom that she received through her father, in recognition of God as the ultimate source of blessing. “I wanted to give something back,” she said. The acquisition of a new telephone system ha…
…ted relationship to her homeland, Israel. The gallery space at BEKI, Safran-Hon hopes, will draw these questions of home and belonging into a Jewish context, evoking the role of the congregation as a spiritual home, and of the synagogue building as a symbolic home in our tradition, as well as the political and ethnic ideas behind the making of a Jewish collective Home. In these pieces, Safran-Hon combines photographs of abandoned homes in Wadi Sal…
…ed consumers and rabbinic authorities, minimizing the profit motive and dampening competition. Doing so adds a sense of holiness to our lives and helps insure the future of the Jewish People and the continuation of our mission. Rabbi Tsadoq says: Do not make the Torah a crown for self-aggrandizement nor a spade for digging one’s livelihood. For this is what Hillel warned against: One who uses Torah for personal gain perishes. (Avot 4:7) For inform…
…Performance by: Yoni Hirshfeld https://www.beki.org/wp-content/uploads/Song-1.mp4 Performance by: Jon Stone https://www.beki.org/wp-content/uploads/Song-2.mp4…
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…ons, including one forthcoming at Petach Tikva Museum of Art. more information and images on the artist’s website https://www.doron-wolf.com…
