On Wednesday morning, April 2nd, Lauren Simonds, our synagogue administrator, went to Kirkland’s Faith Community Convening on...

Shabbat Shalom! Hanukkah is afoot.

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,...

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

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...

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...

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...

The entire Passover Hagaddah, the entire holy week of Passover, has one main goal- to pass to the next generation the story, this...

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...

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...

What to expect from our weekly Shabbat Celebrations? What to expect from our 5782 High Holiday Celebrations? What to expect from our Fall...

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...

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....

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...

Judaism has a love/hate relationship with astrology. If you travel to northern Israel and tour synagogues from the Greek/Hellenized era...

A Pandemic Hanukkah-who would have thought? Oy vey. Here we are. We have made it through Purim, Passover, the High Holidays, and now...

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...

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...