- 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
…16 Jan Tu Bishvat Seder via Zoom January 16, 2022 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm BEKI Kids page Home Page Interior Page Tu Bishvat Seder: An online celebration of the New Year for Trees on Sunday, Jan. 16 from 6:30 to 7:30 pm. To fully participate, have […] More Info…
…icable here. Nothing has to happen, but we can make anything happen. The chance to be our best selves, our authentic Jewish selves, and to have this redound to the benefit and future of our community, is a great one. Will it cost us financially in the near term? Yes. Will it pay dividends in the future? Ken y’hi ratzon! May it be God’s will….
…terested congregants. Two or three months into the year, my yovel learning commitment ripened into a teaching commitment. To the Department of Jewish Education I proposed a course of my 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 – defini…
…urative images in random or abstract shapes. He has compiled a book, Pareidolia, that challengers readers to see figurative form in abstract images. Judaism informs Oren’s art, “Just as it informs nearly everything I do to some degree. We are, after all, just ridiculous collections of our combined experience.” 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 Carve…
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…woman in a Minyan, enjoy a woman’s leading services, celebrate a girl’s becoming a Jewish adult as fully as we celebrate it for a boy, or commemorate the anniversary of a bat-mitzvah celebration, I believe we are making a religious statement about the role of women in our relationship to each other and to G-d. I believe each of these things is a small but important reinforcement of the message that women count. It is a small but important part of…
…otential for arrest and prosecution. Although the likelihood is small, the price would be huge. Were I incarcerated, I am sure someone would send me an email message with a file attached, and I could file my way out. Even so, spending time in the clink just doesnʼt fit into my plans. So, at least so far, I have sought consciousness-expanding experiences and new realities through more conventional, or at least non-chemical, means. Fortunately, our…
…ate’s rules; you can’t pick the most favorable rules for each state. But a company in one state does not follow the rules of a company in another state. The diversity is necessary in part because conditions and values, which are often part of the halakhic formula, vary from place to place; and in part because different posqim see things differently. Mutually exclusive options are the price we pay for this democracy and diversity. With respect to t…
…synagogue and sanctuary. One is the expansive interpretation of the second commandment. The literal words of the commandment are, Thou shalt not make unto thee a graven image nor any manner of likeness that is in the heaven above or that is in the earth beneath. My reading of this is that thou shalt not replace the worship of God with the worship of idols or representation of things that live in the heaven or under the earth. This does not prohibi…
….” “This program,” Tilsen explained, “addresses a need unmet by the Jewish community of Greater New Haven. It incorporates a component to explore how participants can make Jewish observance more a part of their home lives, just as they may learn in their residential programs how to live independently.” Johnston added, “The idea is there’s lots of JCC’s and synagogues around the country doing nice little segregated programs. Let’s give these people…
