By Rachel Bashevkin, BEKI member
When the ark needs to be opened and a Torah carried, who you gonna call? On Shabbat morning at Beth El - Keser Israel [BEKI], a group of teenagers decides. For the last 15 years, teen shamashim have selected people for all of the honors and have kept the se…
By Gilah Benson-Tilsen, BEKI Youth Group Coordinator
Congregation BEKI Kadima and United Synagogue Youth (USY) are youth groups that empower Jewish students in middle school and high school to plan and participate in educational, religious, community service, and social events. These acti…
JCC staff members, including the Welcome Desk Associates and babysitters, held a customer service and security training seminar on Sunday, Dec. 17 to prepare for the JCC’s reopening.
World-renowned Judaic artist Jeanette Kuvin Oren shows off a Torah cover she created. Kuvin Oren stopped by the Jewish High School of Connecticut recently to speak to students about following their passions and just how far that can take them.
This coming winter marks the ninth year for Abraham’s Tent, an interfaith program in which churches, synagogues and mosques partner to house individuals from Columbus House’s overflow shelter.
This much needed New Haven program was founded when it became clear that the number of homeles…
