Assistant Director of Education (Part-Time) Congregation Kol Ami: A Center for Jewish Life (Kirkland, WA) Kol Ami is seeking a warm, organized, and relational educator to serve as our Assistant Director of Education . This part-time role supports our vibrant youth and family education programs and helps create joyful, inclusive Jewish learning experiences. Responsibilities include: Onsite leadership for 28 Saturday morning programs (8:00 AM–12:00 PM) Supporting 2 Friday night programs/month...

Train Tunnel Standing at the sealed passage between Israel and Lebanon If I could open up the tunnel between Israel and Lebanon at Rosh HaNikra, I would hack away at it with my nails, my teeth, with everything I have. I have stood and looked at that sealed tunnel at Rosh HaNikra many times in my life. Remembering that, even if for a short time, a train ran from the beautiful coastal city of Haifa up the stunning Mediterranean coastline to Beirut. Beirut. I have heard it is, or was, the Paris...

Never Again—for Us or for Anyone? Yom HaShoah 5786 | Kol Ami: A Center for Jewish Life In memory of the six million Jews and all those who were killed during the Shoah (catastrophe), and in honor of those who stood up for us when we could not stand up for ourselves. “Never again”—just for us? Or “never again”—for anyone? Where are we this year? Where are you? We, as human beings, move constantly between the particular and the universal. Between caring for our own and caring for the whole....