People suck, so proclaims the Lord.* But you do not have to.
This isn't just my proclamation about human nature; it's God's voice in our parashah this week. Both stories found in Parashat Noach,...
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Congregation Kol Ami
Oct 255 min read
We all get to choose. Thank God!
We are not confined to a predestined reality. The world was not created so that it could be destroyed. We are not born sinful. None of that
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Congregation Kol Ami
Sep 21, 20232 min read
A Yom Kippur Message from Rabbi K
Teshuva can mean to make amends: to do better, put right. This is one of our personal tasks at this season. Especially now during the 10...
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Congregation Kol Ami
Feb 24, 20232 min read
Turn a day of hate into a day of love 2/25 10:30am 🪬💕🪬💕
This Saturday 2/25 has been marked as a national day of hate of the Jews-by people who really hate Jews. People who work in Jewish...
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Congregation Kol Ami
Oct 18, 20223 min read
Migrants coming from Texas to Seattle: How you can help with this humanitarian crisis right now!
Love the stranger...this is the most repeated mitzvah in the Torah. It is not an option for us Jews. We have been strangers in a strange...
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Congregation Kol Ami
Mar 31, 20223 min read
Community Seder is all about All Ages!
The entire Passover Hagaddah, the entire holy week of Passover, has one main goal- to pass to the next generation the story, this...
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Congregation Kol Ami
Jan 23, 20221 min read
Connecting with Rabbi Kinberg 30 minutes at a time
Shalom! A few weeks ago I invited our Kol Ami members and friends to use my new calendar site to make appointments with me to check in...
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Congregation Kol Ami
Aug 30, 20214 min read
From the Rabbi: Kol Ami Tikkun Olam/Social Action for the New Year.
So many of you have been expressing interest in ways that you can help to heal and repair our broken world through the good works of Kol...
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Congregation Kol Ami
Jul 25, 20215 min read
What to expect when you do not know what to expect: Late Summer and Fall 2021, Delta Variant Ed.
What to expect from our weekly Shabbat Celebrations? What to expect from our 5782 High Holiday Celebrations? What to expect from our Fall...
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Congregation Kol Ami
May 30, 20214 min read
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...
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Congregation Kol Ami
Mar 14, 20212 min read
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....
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Congregation Kol Ami
Jan 28, 20213 min read
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...
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Congregation Kol Ami
Dec 17, 20204 min read
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...
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Congregation Kol Ami
Dec 3, 20203 min read
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...
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Congregation Kol Ami
Oct 8, 20204 min read
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...
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Congregation Kol Ami
Sep 16, 20203 min read
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...
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Congregation Kol Ami
Aug 19, 20206 min read
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...
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Congregation Kol Ami
Jul 29, 20207 min read
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...
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Congregation Kol Ami
Jul 22, 20205 min read
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”...
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Congregation Kol Ami
Jul 14, 20203 min read
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...
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