- 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
…them. Time Our Shabbat morning service usually concludes by noon. Services today may run a little longer because of the ceremonies recognizing the b’mitzvah. The Kiddush reception following the service may last an hour or more. Telephone, Electricity, Smoking, Cameras Shabbat is distinguished from the rest of the week, in our synagogue as in many others, by not operating electronic items (although there is a telephone available for emergency use a…
…own design, entitled Hidden Stories of God in the Movies. Many of you here today were present at the birth of this notion about one and one half years ago, when I gave a Devar Torah on “Toyrah Story”, wherein I offered – no sense in beating around the bush – definitive proof that the plot for the 1995 movie, Toy Story, is the Joseph story spliced together with the Exodus story! Other movies covered in the course were Prince of Egypt, in which the…
…he same field, and other rules that seem pretty arbitrary and inapplicable today. On the other hand some of the laws in this parasha remain quite relevant. Don’t make an impoverished laborer wait overnight for his pay. Protect the rights of those who have no one to stand up for them: the non-citizen, the widow, the fatherless. Use honest weights and measures in trade. I want to look at a few verses from the parasha that seem at first unconnected t…
…ose times could operate with greater security. So here’s my overall point. Today, the power grid in America is, shall we say, a very complex distribution network. The way it operates is by a certain number of power plants producing energy, usually by burning fossil fuels, and then feeding it into the massive grid of electrical power lines. I think this is quite similar to the societal structure of the monkeys and the medieval Jewish court system,…
…theological way of thinking isn’t confined to Biblical times either. Even today there are those who seek to speculate on what Japan must have done to deserve such a horrific natural disaster and the devastation it has left. The impetus for such distasteful speculation comes from a desire to control the threat, to give meaning to otherwise incomprehensible suffering and provide a false sense of security—that if we just act properly it won’t happen…
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…2020 Meditation and Teshuva – Part 1 Robin Goldberg September 2, 2020 How Today’s Choices Determine How We Will Live in Our 90s Sascha van Creveld August 26, 2020 Do Black Lives Matter in the Declaration of Independence? Robert Forbes August 19, 2020 Policing, Racism, and Community Professor Kalfani Turé August 12, 2020 From Left to Right: Lucy Dawidowicz, the New York Intellectuals and the Politics of Jewish History Professor Nancy Sinkoff July…
…to us as little as possible. But it’s true that these are both times even today when people need a little extra space and rest. When we are sick, we stay home from school and work and synagogue. When a baby is born, the whole family also needs extra rest and time at home. At BEKI many people help by bringing the family dinner to eat. (You can sign up to bring meals when a family has a new baby on BEKI’s Lotsa Helping Hands page.) Importantly, bot…
