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85 Harrison Street, New Haven, CT 06515-1724 | P: 203.389.2108 | office@beki.org
…blood is upon them. (Lev. 18:20, 20:13) As we know, these texts have been used are being used, to exclude, oppress, and even kill gay men – and lesbians as well, although the text makes no mention of them. Hertz (or as we call it here at BEKI, the blue Hertz humash) comments that “with a man” indicates that the text “Disclosed the abyss of depravity from which the Torah saved the Israelite. This unnatural vice was prevalent in Greece and Rome.” P…
…nagogue. Third, the time has come to dismantle the Chief Rabbinate and its network of courts. Sustained by a political alliance between cynicism and fundamentalism, the system is today without a scintilla of moral worth. In 1994, 20% of the Israelis getting married went abroad to circumvent the monopoly of the Orthodox establishment, often to undergo only a civil ceremony. I am not calling for the abrogation of legislation for religious purposes (…
…world, it may be readily understandable that a military census was only focused on males. However, by having a census that only focuses on military needs, it seemingly implies, at least to me, that it is not important to have a census of all the people. Imagine if the parshah has told us, tribe by tribe, the number of people in each tribe, and separately, the number of males, 20 and up, who were fit for service. Would that kind of census send a di…
BEKI Bulletin January 2007 A Message from Rabbi Tilsen The Rabbinical Assembly’s Committee on Jewish Law and Standards endorsed two papers in December (2006), one of which finds that Gay and Lesbian Jews may celebrate civil unions with the blessing of Jewish law and may serve as rabbis in the Conservative Movement. The other paper affirms the Biblical ban on homosexual acts, provides a basis for excluding “avowed” homosexuals from the rabbinate,…
…performance of mitzvot. Some recreational drugs contribute to undesired genetic mutation. The thought of damaging my future offspring has led me to defer consideration of drug use. At this point, my actual children, already born, would be endangered, since as their resident father, I am on call 24-hours a day to provide them emergency care, if not daily guidance and maintenance. My kids already think Iʼm a dope; I canʼt be doped up and fulfill my…
…My initial email to the congregation about the sanctuary redesign, in June 2021, generated more responses than any other email I have sent as BEKI president. There was also phenomenal participation in the online survey about this subject in November 2021. This tells me that our congregants really care about our main sanctuary. For all these reasons, I believe that now is the time to redesign our main sanctuary to better reflect who we are. Two op…
…” 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, 2021 exhibition works are available for sale; click here to download price list…
…12 Mar Purim Seuda March 12, 2017 11:00 am – 1:00 pm Home Page Interior Page purimseuda2017 flyer UPDATED LOWER PRICE $2 SUBSIDY PER PERSON More Info…
…motives for wanting to forgive are not all altruistic. I find that I pay a price for my lack of forgiveness. I do not like that burden of grievance that I sometimes carry. So when the Rabbi asked me to give the devar Torah about the Joseph story, I was delighted to have the opportunity to study a situation in which a man and his brothers were forced to confront and resolve a very painful breech in their relationship. Perhaps from Joseph I could le…
…29 Apr Artist Talk with Dganit Zauberman April 29, 2023 12:45 pm Events Website: https://www.inliquid.org/artist/zauberman-dganit More info TBA More Info…
