A Yom Kippur Message from Rabbi K
Teshuva can mean to make amends: to do better, put right. This is one of our personal tasks at this season. Especially now during the 10...
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Congregation Kol Ami
- Sep 8
- 3 min
Need a boost of optimism & hopefulness for humanity? Come celebrate the Yamim Noraim/Days of Awe
We enter the new year of 5784 on Friday, September 15th as the sun sets. Register here for a seat at High Holdays. We require...
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Congregation Kol Ami
- Aug 16
- 4 min
Check your receipts: Rosh Hashanah is coming!
Rosh Hodesh Elul, the new month of Elul, is the last new moon of the year 5783. The next new moon will be Rosh HaShanah. This month of...
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Congregation Kol Ami
- Aug 9
- 1 min
Saving Israeli Democracy-American Jews have a role too!
Shalom! I am inviting you to get involved in the Israeli pro-democracy movement. Even if it is just for the learning and keeping up to...
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Congregation Kol Ami
- Aug 8
- 4 min
Why Jewish Camp makes me cry and the ancestors cheer
We just returned home from a quick trip to URJ Camp Kalsman in Arlington, Washington. Seth and I both had campers up at our local Reform...
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Congregation Kol Ami
- Aug 1
- 1 min
Interfaith Shabbat this Shabbat!
The goal: To welcome people who are not Jewish into our community this Shabbat. Exposure! Connections! Demystifying! Sharing of our...
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Congregation Kol Ami
- Jul 24
- 3 min
Why Tisha B'Av? Because none of our holidays are irrelevant.
Why Tisha B'Av? For most of my life I have heard many liberal Jews, rabbis included, downplay the relevance of Tisha B'Av. Why? It...
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Congregation Kol Ami
- Jul 19
- 3 min
Back from a month in the woods and back into the woods to celebrate Shabbat.
Shalom! I am just back from a month of vacation. We went camping in the woods. Just my husband Seth and myself. Over the four weeks, we...
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Congregation Kol Ami
- May 23
- 5 min
Kol Ami's future...?
It is bright. This is what I can tell you. Our future is bright. Sustainable. Energetic. Growing. Joyful. Thoughtful. Kind. Generous. Kol...
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Congregation Kol Ami
- Mar 23
- 1 min
Kirkland Together: Recognizing Antisemitism 4/29 3-6pm space limited!
Register today for our Kirkalnd symposium on antisemitism. https://www.kolaminw.org/events-1/kirkland-together-recognizing-antisemitism...
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Congregation Kol Ami
- Feb 24
- 2 min
Turn a day of hate into a day of love 2/25 10:30am 🪬💕🪬💕
This Saturday 2/25 has been marked as a national day of hate of the Jews-by people who really hate Jews. People who work in Jewish...
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Congregation Kol Ami
- Feb 17
- 4 min
Camp Kesher: the best thing we did as a family for almost 20 years
In the summer of 2003, when Ozi was not even 3 years old, I was asked by my boss to attend Camp Kesher, a Jewish family camp on Vashon...
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Congregation Kol Ami
- Feb 2
- 4 min
Shabbat Shira: Congregation as Choir and the Rhythm is going to get you
One of the most beautiful and uplifting aspects of Jewish prayer, for this rabbi at least, is a communal song. The songs and prayers we...
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Congregation Kol Ami
- Jan 20
- 3 min
We all have foreskin
One well-known covenant of the Jewish people is brit milah, the covenant of foreskin removal on the 8th day. Also known as a Bris. I have...
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Congregation Kol Ami
- Jan 6
- 5 min
“Everybody is going to be dead."
“Everybody is going to be dead one day, just give them time.” Neil Gaiman The best gift you can give your children is a well-planned...
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Congregation Kol Ami
- Jan 2
- 3 min
Kol Ami & MLK Day Seattle: A new partnership
2023 SEATTLE MLK COMMUNITY WORKSHOPS and MARCH Show your solidarity. Young and Old alike. Help make the Jewish community visible at this...
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Congregation Kol Ami
- Dec 30, 2022
- 5 min
Od Avinu Chai! We are still kicking!
When Joseph reveals his hidden identity to his brothers in this week's parashah Vayigash, he does so with emotion. He reveals himself in...
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Congregation Kol Ami
- Dec 15, 2022
- 3 min
Vayeishev: It was never a coat, it was always a dress.
Jacob had a favorite son. Of his many sons. Twelve in all. You know one of them had to be genderqueer. And it turned out to be his most...
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Congregation Kol Ami
- Nov 7, 2022
- 2 min
This Friday! Free to Be: 50 years of Free to be You and Me.
This Friday, 11/11, at 7:30 pm, Kol Ami is celebrating Free to Be You and Me (released on my birthday, 11/27/1972) through story and...
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Congregation Kol Ami
- Oct 27, 2022
- 5 min
It is a Tree of Life: Reflections on anti-Jewish violence in America on the Tree of Life Anniversary
When I was a young adult, my home synagogue, where my father was rabbi, was shot up by a machine gun. Behind the gun: Chris Lord, a...
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