Looking out my window I see the natural world around me preparing for winter. Squirrels burying their nuts in our veggie planters. The...

During Pandemic times Shabbat has become even more important in the life of our community. Creating sacred time, reflection time, family...

This is the season of balanced light. Day and night hours become equal and move towards greater darkness. This is the season of our new...

One week from tonight we welcome in Rosh HaShanah 5781. Come "home" to Kol Ami and join us in celebration of these Days of Awe from the...

Glint By Cathy Cohen Beneath a sky of stars in this time of great answering I will sing     my own brief poem. If the bowl of the sky is...

Five misfortunes befell our ancestors … on the ninth of Av. …On the ninth of Av it was decreed that our fathers should not enter the...

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...

We are gearing up for a unique High Holiday season. The journalists at the Forward captured some of our innovations along with those of...

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...

This statement was recommended by the Kol Ami Social Action Committee for consideration by the Kol Ami Board of Directors at the June...

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...

Connecting with the Past at Passover – by Joan Rudd When Joe read the Four Questions in Russian, two birds showed up. Red-breasted...

B'shert – by Kathryn Harbel I live in what I call a “religiously complicated” household. My husband is an atheist; my son has been...

A Different Thought About Mother’s Day – by Mary Askenazi Remember when we were young, and Mother’s Day was something to look forward to?...