Sep 17 3 min 5781: Festival during Pandemic Times 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 y...
Aug 19 6 min This is Elul: Month of self-reflection, transformation and self-love. 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...
Jul 29 7 min This is Av: A time for weeping and lament 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 [Pro...
Jul 22 5 min We have direction. Follow the Mizrach 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” ...
Jul 14 3 min What if Israel annexed Palestinian Territories? A moral challenge for Jews who believe in democracy. It looks like the situation has cooled off. The Trump administration gave the emergency government formed by Prime Minister Natanyahu the...
Jul 8 4 min A prayer for our time or Onwards! Towards the Promised Land. 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 plant...
Jul 1 2 min Mazel Tov! It is our first anniversary in Kirkland. 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 m...
Jun 23 6 min 21 Weeks of Consciousness Raising: Undoing, unlearning, upending Racism 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. Learning...
Jun 3 5 min We are anything but powerless: Black Lives Matter Black Lives Matter. Before last week writing these three words might have been a career-ender for some rabbis in this nation. Before last...
May 27 4 min Torah and Dairy Products: A unique and highly maternal combo for Shavuot It is the season for blintzes. And cheese cake. And icd cream. And Torah. Shavuot, which we celebrate this Thursday night when the sun go...
