Walking through Target the other day I looked longingly as the clerks set up the back to school sections and the “moving into your dorm”...

It looks like the situation has cooled off. The Trump administration gave the emergency government formed by Prime Minister Natanyahu the...

Every day is a new day. The world is always moving and changing, in small and large ways. A leaf drops. A baby is born. A garden is...

This week last year we moved to Kirkland. A year ago we packed up our little congregation in Woodinville and around 40 of us began a 14...

Last week Kol Ami kicked off 21 weeks of anti-racist learning and doing. It is not too late to join us. This is Jewish practice....

Black Lives Matter. Before last week writing these three words might have been a career-ender for some rabbis in this nation. Before last...

It is the season for blintzes. And cheese cake. And icd cream. And Torah. Shavuot, which we celebrate this Thursday night when the sun...

Havdalah is the Jewish ceremony which ends the Sabbath day, giving us enter into the work week ahead. The creation story in the book of...

In between the last global pandemic of 1918 and the pandemic we are currently in the midst of, the Jewish people have added several new...

By Rabbi Yohanna Kinberg What I am offering in my blog this week was written by Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan (1881-1983), the founder of...

The Jewish people know how to walk through massive disruption and make it onto the other side. But never in our history have we made it to t

This Thursday we will gather for our 2nd night community Seder—as we have for so very long as a community. Last year we had our Seder in...

The first night of Passover is next Wednesday, April 8. Time is particularly fluid these days. So many bench marks and scheduled events...

We will survive. Our species. Most of us will live. Too many will die. We will make it to the other side. But none of us will go...

We are being told exactly what to do. Stay home. Wash hands. Practice social distance. Our options have become very limited and our...

For the spiritual practitioner...this is what one prepares for through practice. We prepare for: Instability. Uncertainty. Weathering the...

How is this Purim different from every other Purim? Covid-19. And Kirkland, WA (of all places) is the epicenter? Oy vey! Our only option...

This week, in respecting the King County request for organizations to avoid large gatherings, Kol Ami is canceling all programming for...

Covid-19 has come into the world. Spread from one land to the next, one hand to the next. Invisibly. We can’t see it and yet we know it...