- 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
…do what it can. Here are the kinds of things were talking about: rides to services or BEKI programs. Rides for kids when their parent is unable to drive. An occasional phone call or visit to someone who lives alone or in assisted living. A cooked meals or groceries for someone recuperating from illness or surgery. Of course, we can’t provide regular nursing service or permanent carpooling, but we can extend a helping hand, and we should. How will…
…17 Apr Festival Service (in-person) – Passover Day II – 1st Day of Omer April 17, 2022 9:15 am – 11:45 am Home Page Interior Page More Info…
…onest about our lives. And it’s a lesson that is useful for all of us. The weekday morning liturgy affirms this biblical instruction and includes this powerful statement about honesty: A person should always be in awe of Heaven in private and in public, and admit the truth and speak truth in one’s heart. We recite this line before we recite the Shema, that powerful affirmation of the oneness of God and the interconnection of all things and our rol…
…tever their special learning needs. The breadth and quality of Shabbat and weekday programs for children and youth expanded, and the number of minors grew from under 70 in 1994 to over 225 a decade later. A typical Shabbat morning includes simultaneous programs or services for children and youth, as well as youth participating in the main service and Shabbat Shalom Torah Study. In 2003, the congregation began a process of building renovations, aim…
…choosing life and with at-onement. I believe that the Job of the good old days, the days before God began tormenting him with his own personal parade of plagues, is not at one with his fellows or with God. I’m not questioning that Job is “blameless and upright,” that he “fears God and shuns evil.” I’m not claiming that Job is guilty and deserves punishment. I’m saying that despite his blameless and upright conduct — or perhaps through it — Job se…
…ing the leader of the pack at 18 months as the youngest member of your two year old nursery school class at EBJ. Most people in those days saw you as a highly active child with natural athletic abilities, but few saw beyond this preschooler in constant motion. Your father and I, your teachers and those close to you caught the glimmer of a very sensitive child who would make funny faces so his brother would laugh so that we could give him his asthm…
…er 9/11. September 11 is probably most vivid because of its recency. A few weeks ago, my wife and I were in New York and had dinner with a couple, 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 collag…
…, 1952, p. 76. 22 Tute, 1929, p. 48. 23 Eisenman, p. 137; Granott, 1952, p. 75. 24 The survey taken during the British Mandate managed to cover only about one-fourth of Israel’s land area before the Mandate’s end. (Sabri Jiryis, “The Land Question in Israel,” Middle East Research and Information Project Reports, 47, 1976, p. 14.) 25 Granott, 1952, p. 107. 26 Tute, 1927, p. 180. 27 Jiryis, 1976, p. 16. 28 Eisenman, p. 61. 29 Yehoshua Porath, “The P…
April – June 2022 Conversation with the Artist via Zoom: Thursday, May 12 7:30 PM For over 35 years, Suzanne Neusner has focused on abstract imagery through a variety of weaving and quilting techniques that she developed to reflect her own aesthetic. Her work includes references to landscapes, abstractions, and playful reinventions of traditional Jewish themes such as matzoh covers. Neusner uses color and form to highlight contrast and texture, o…
…itzvah in the context of our community’s regular Shabbat, Festival, or weekday service because the celebration belongs to the entire community. Head Covering and Prayer Shawl (tallit) Our congregation requests that all male-identifying people wear a head covering in the sanctuary and beit midrash (daily chapel). Head covering for female-identifying folks is optional, but required when called to the reader’s table. A skullcap (known in Hebrew as ki…
