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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...
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Congregation Kol Ami
Jul 1, 20202 min read
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...
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Congregation Kol Ami
Jun 23, 20206 min read
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....
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Congregation Kol Ami
Jun 3, 20205 min read
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...
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Congregation Kol Ami
May 27, 20204 min read
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...
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Congregation Kol Ami
May 19, 20203 min read
What about Havdalah?
Havdalah is the Jewish ceremony which ends the Sabbath day, giving us enter into the work week ahead. The creation story in the book of...
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Congregation Kol Ami
Apr 29, 20205 min read
A Resurrection Story Rabbi Yohanna Kinberg
In between the last global pandemic of 1918 and the pandemic we are currently in the midst of, the Jewish people have added several new...
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Apr 22, 20206 min read
Humbling ourselves before Creation: Science and Religion are our sacred heritage
By Rabbi Yohanna Kinberg What I am offering in my blog this week was written by Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan (1881-1983), the founder of...
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Apr 15, 20206 min read
Pivot towards Wisdom: The Ethics of our Ancestors
The Jewish people know how to walk through massive disruption and make it onto the other side. But never in our history have we made it to t
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Apr 8, 20203 min read
A Night of Questions
This Thursday we will gather for our 2nd night community Seder—as we have for so very long as a community. Last year we had our Seder in...
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Apr 1, 20204 min read
Preparing to celebrate a Passover like no other
The first night of Passover is next Wednesday, April 8. Time is particularly fluid these days. So many bench marks and scheduled events...
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Mar 26, 20203 min read
This is a test
We will survive. Our species. Most of us will live. Too many will die. We will make it to the other side. But none of us will go...
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Mar 18, 20204 min read
The faithful step: walking blind in a time of unknowns
We are being told exactly what to do. Stay home. Wash hands. Practice social distance. Our options have become very limited and our...
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Mar 11, 20205 min read
You got this! Spiritual strength in a time of societal adversity
For the spiritual practitioner...this is what one prepares for through practice. We prepare for: Instability. Uncertainty. Weathering the...
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Mar 9, 20203 min read
Stay Home Purim: 5 ways to make merry at home!
How is this Purim different from every other Purim? Covid-19. And Kirkland, WA (of all places) is the epicenter? Oy vey! Our only option...
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Mar 4, 20204 min read
Stay Home Shabbat: Responding to Communal Safety Needs
This week, in respecting the King County request for organizations to avoid large gatherings, Kol Ami is canceling all programming for...
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Mar 3, 20203 min read
Blessings for Peace and Health: May you feel safe. And know the love of community and the Divine.
Covid-19 has come into the world. Spread from one land to the next, one hand to the next. Invisibly. We can’t see it and yet we know it...
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Congregation Kol Ami
Feb 12, 20202 min read
Universal Love and Valentine’s Day
I think true love is not only true personal love but the totality of love, universal love - to be in love with everything manifest and...
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Congregation Kol Ami
Feb 3, 20203 min read
Jews have always loved an early Spring-an almond tree is blooming somewhere!
Spring is technically weeks and week away. But little signs of it are popping up all around. It is subtle. But those signs are there....
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