May 30 4 min I'm back! A message from Rabbi Kinberg upon her return. Life’s random and unexpected events threw me for the past few months. I had big plans for this spring at Kol Ami. Teaching online and...
Mar 14 2 min Passover @ Kol Ami 5781 1st Night Home Seder: Invite a few Kol Ami members to do a Zoom seder in a small group if you do not already have family or friends....
Jan 29 3 min Giving and Goodness: The true meaning of Tzedakah As a torch is not diminished though it kindles a million candles, so will he not lose who gives to a good cause. Midrash Exodus Rabbah...
Dec 18, 2020 4 min Welcome to Tevet: A lesson in becoming goat-like and reaching for the light Judaism has a love/hate relationship with astrology. If you travel to northern Israel and tour synagogues from the Greek/Hellenized era...
Dec 4, 2020 3 min Gathering Sparks, Growing Light: This is Our Heritage A Pandemic Hanukkah-who would have thought? Oy vey. Here we are. We have made it through Purim, Passover, the High Holidays, and now...
Oct 8, 2020 4 min New Shabbat Schedule: Ch-ch-ch-changes! During Pandemic times Shabbat has become even more important in the life of our community. Creating sacred time, reflection time, family...
Sep 17, 2020 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...
Aug 19, 2020 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, 2020 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...
Jul 22, 2020 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”...
