Online Schmooze Recordings

Visiting Israel After 10/7

Avital Sokolow-Silverman
April 9, 2024

We are All Climate Hypocrites Now

Sami Grover
January 16, 2024

Celebrating Gender Diversity in Jewish Tradition, Values and Theology

Rabbi Dr. Jay Michaelson
November 15, 2023

BEKI Green Team – Home Energy Audits

Michelle Long
November 1, 2023

Yom HaShoah – Holocaust Remembrance Day

April 18, 2023

Israel Discussion – “Suicidal democracy? On the moral and emotional dimensions in Israel’s moment of truth”

Uriel Abulof
April 9, 2023

Immigration at Our Southern Border:   A Lawyer’s View on Recent Barriers

Liora Cohen-Fraade
March 22, 2023

How to Ensure the Safety of our Kids – BeSMARTforKids.org

Joanna Taczanowsky from Moms Demand Action
February 22, 2023

From Justification to Justice: Jewish Perspectives & Experiences of Abortion

Michal Raucher
July 27, 2022

Sanctuary Redesign: Accommodating Those With Neurodiverse Needs

Discussion led by Carol Weitzman
July 27, 2022

The Cantors’ Assembly 75th Anniversary Journal

Cantor Matt Austerklein & Rachel Adelstein
July 6, 2022

“Shmita, Letting the Land Rest, and What Actually Happens to the Land”

Bruce Spierer
June 29, 2022

Conversation with Martha Coolidge – Director – “I’ll Find You”

Martha Coolidge
June 8, 2022

Conversation with the Artist with Suzanne Neusner

Suzanne Neusner
May 12, 2022

Lev Shalem: Getting To Know the New Siddur

Rabbi Eric Woodward and Katharine Baker
March 23, 2022

New COVID Research

Dan Weinberger
March 9, 2022

Evacuating our Afghan Allies: the Role of Community Sponsors like JCARR

Thomas Huddleston
March 2, 2022

Book Talk: The Man Who Loved His Wife

Jennifer Moses
February 23, 2022

Exploring BEKI’s Musical Heritage Pt.5

Rachel Adelstein
February 15, 2022

Exploring BEKI’s Musical Heritage Pt.4

Rachel Adelstein
February 8, 2022

What’s New in Westville?

Lizzy Donius & Alisha Crutchfield McLean
February 2, 2022

Exploring BEKI’s Musical Heritage Pt.3

Rachel Adelstein
January 25, 2022

Exploring BEKI’s Musical Heritage Pt.2

Rachel Adelstein
January 18, 2022

Tu Bishvat Seder

January 16, 2022

Exploring BEKI’s Musical Heritage

Rachel Adelstein
January 10, 2022

Christian Kabbalists of 17th Century Europe

Max Duboff
November 10, 2021

Poisoning the Wells: Antisemitism in Contemporary America

Corinne Blackmer
November 3, 2021

“Fair Trade” and Why It Is A Jewish Issue

Susan Sklar
October 13, 2021

CONECT- an interfaith social action group

Matt McDermott & Alana Rosenberg
October 6, 2021

Elul Beit Midrash: “Vidui – Essential for Teshuva, Not Just for Yom Kippur: The When, Why & How of Confession”

Jay Sokolow
September 1, 2021

Elul Beit Midrash: “Teshuva as Conversion: Psychological Reflections on Religious Change”

Arielle Rubenstein
August 18, 2021

Elul Beit Midrash: “Jonah, Grudges & Growth”

Rabbi Eric Woodward
August 11, 2021

Pride Month Schmooze

Miryam Kabakov
June 30, 2021

BEKI Annual Meeting

June 21, 2021

JUNETEENTH, the African-American Celebration of Freedom

Robert Forbes
June 16, 2021

Tea Tasting

Caroline Keogh of New Haven Tea
June 9, 2021

Anti-Asian Racism in America

Rachel Forbes
June 2, 2021

Together New Haven: Economic Development in New Haven

Carlos Eyzaguirre
May 26, 2021

Regendering the Torah

Yael Kanarek
May 19, 2021

Broke in America: Seeing, Understanding, and Ending U.S. Poverty

Joanne Samuel Goldblum and Colleen Shaddox
May 5, 2021

Earth Day

Rabbi Ellen Bernstein
April 21, 2021

“A Thousand Kisses: A Family’s Escape from the Nazis to a New Life”.

John W. Weiser
April 7, 2021

Racial justice and the film “By the River, I Stand”

Jennifer Klein
March 24, 2021

Making the Passover Seder Meaningful & Fun

Annie Norman Schiff
March 24, 2021

Singing Around the Seder Table

Rachel Adelstein
March 17, 2021

Inaugural Book Talk: “A Beginner’s Guide to America”

Roya Hakakian
March 10, 2021

BEKI town hall style meeting

Presentation by the Rabbi Search Committee
March 3, 2021

Slavery, Memory, and Reconciliation

Adam Rothman
February 17, 2021

Gavriel Savit discusses his journey as a writer and his book “The Way Back”

Gavriel Savit
February 3, 2021

Let’s Talk about Trees!

Caroline Scanlon
January 27, 2021

Tu B’Shevat as a Gateway to Judaism and Sustainability

Nigel Savage and Shamu Sadeh of HAZON
January 20, 2021

Discussion of “Traces of the Trade”

Facilitated by Jennifer Klein and Jim Berger
January 13, 2021

Access slides from the discussion here.

Health and Wellness Judaism

(Rabbi, Dr.) Levi Brackman
January 6, 2021

Book Talk: “Invisible Years”

Daphne Geismar
December 6, 2020

Discussion of “Commandment 613”

Miriam Lewin and Rabbi Kevin Hale
December 23, 2020

T’chiah: Spirit and Fire

Leslie Klein
December 9, 2020

Debt, Torah, and Bankruptcy Law

Corey Stone
December 2, 2020

Discussion of “I Am Not Your Negro”

Facilitated by Jennifer Klein and Jim Berger
November 11, 2020

BEKI USY vs Chess Master Jim Eade

Jim Eade, Noam Benson-Tilsen, Aaron Bruce, Caleb Freiman, and Ethan Lavi
November 4, 2020

Getting Personal: Yaron Lew Talks about Growing Up on Kibbutz

Yaron Lew
Wednesday, October 21, 2020

Virtual Jewish Heritage Tour: Budapest, Vienna and Prague

Jacob Shoshan (for Bokoff Tours & Travel)
Wednesday, October 15, 2020

The Relations of Care: Reflecting on the Dignity of Work, Racial Justice, and Interdependence for Teshuva

Jennifer Klein
Thursday, September 24, 2020

Heshbon Nefesh:  Taking a Moral Inventory in Judaism & in the 12-Steps

Dr. Jay Sokolow
September 14, 2020

Meditation and Teshuva – Part II

Robin Goldberg
September 9, 2020

The Psychological Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Drs. Raina Sotsky and Morris Bell
September 3, 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 22, 2020

It’s Never Too Early to Start Planning: Giving yourself a Voice in the Face of Mortality

Donna Levine, Esq. and Dr. Michael Hurwitz
July 8, 2020

Tracking Covid-19 in New Haven and Across the Country

Dr. Dan Weinberger
July 1, 2020