- 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
…ons, including one forthcoming at Petach Tikva Museum of Art. more information and images on the artist’s website https://www.doron-wolf.com…
…12 Jun Drive-by Food Drive June 12, 2022 10:00 am – 11:00 am Home Page Interior Page BEKI will hold a food collection from 10 to 11 am on Sunday, June 12. This is Westville’s annual Giveaway Day (in which people put […] More Info…
…ed or acquired during the festival, so the items must be produced and acquired before mid-morning Erev Pesah when the hametz is nullified. Dear Rabbi, How clean is clean for Passover? I have spent two weeks cleaning, but no matter how much I clean, I can never be sure all the hametz is gone. Signed, Compulsive Kitchen Cleaner Dear Compulsive, Pharaoh freed the slaves. This means that Pesah is supposed to be a happy holiday. Joy on the festival i…
…festivals featuring digital art. Her video les affinités recouvrées (Recovered Affinities) was featured opening night of multiple Jewish Film Festivals (San Francisco, Boston) and other venues around the world. A three-time recipient of grants from the Connecticut Commission on the Arts, Rubin has been awarded international artist residencies and grants from sources as diverse as Vidéochroniques (Marseilles) and the Memorial Foundation for Jewish…
…haharit 12-Niggun 13-Qadshenu-bmitzvotekha…vetaher-libenu 14-Ki-Ata-…-Emet….Melekh-al-kol-haaretz…. 15-Besefer-haim….. 16-Avinu-Malkenu 17-13-Attributes-and-VaAni-Tefilati-Torah-service 18-Shema-through-Gadlu-in-Torah-service 19-Unetaneh-Toqef 20-BeRosh-Hashana-Yikatevun 21-BeKhol-Maaminim 22-Alenu 23-HaYom-Harat-Olam 24-Areshet-Tzefatenu 25-HaYom-TeAmtzenu 26-BeYom-Din 27-Shema-Qolenu 28-Ki-Anu-Amekha 29-As…
…and Robert, Cleveland, U.S. Census Bureau, Current Population Reports, P60-218, Money Income in the United States: 2001, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2002.) Even more: On the global level, I am in the top 1%. So when I say that the rich should pay, I am including myself. When we share our spiritual, financial and other blessings with others and consequently see their Hanuka lights — or their Holiday Candles — glowing in their…
…higher proportion of their income. While the letter of our law mostly required only a flat-rate (fixed percentage) contribution, our ethical teaching has urged that those with higher incomes ought to give even more. In our current political climate it is said, “Let the wealthy keep more of their earnings as an incentive for them to produce more.” Remarkably, the opposite theory is applied to the poor: “Take away from the poor in order to boost the…
…ng lot is for BEKI members, guests and visitors. By Car From New York Via I-95: Take I-95 North to right Exit 43 “Downtown West Haven” (Route 122, Campbell Street). At bottom of exit ramp turn LEFT onto Campbell (=Route 122); pass under underpass (North toward New Haven). Begin clocking 3.5 miles. After 9/10 of a mile road ends at a traffic light after Hess Gas station on Right (Route 1 = Orange Rd.) with little Forest Theater in front of you. Fro…
…ouple, Isaac and Miriam, that lived across from the Twin Towers. Their five-year-old daughter had watched from her bedroom window as the second plane crashed into the towers. She hadn’t seen the first because she was in bed reading a book. She watched the towers crumble. Every time she does a drawing, a collage, or an art project there is always some reminder in it of that day. “See Momm, these are stairs we ran down when we had to be evacuated.”…
…or bat-mitzva? Signed, Davening to Know Dear Davening, At BEKI minors (pre-benei-mitzva youth) are allowed, indeed encouraged, to read Torah (with some exceptions and reservations). This is not the case in most communities because generally children do not know how to read Torah or because it is an honor reserved for adults, not as a matter of law but as social etiquette. There is no legal barrier to minors reading Torah or having an aliya (again…
