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...

We enter the new year of 5784 on Friday, September 15th as the sun sets. Register here for a seat at High Holdays. We require...

Rosh Hodesh Elul, the new month of Elul, is the last new moon of the year 5783. The next new moon will be Rosh HaShanah. This month of...

Shalom! I am inviting you to get involved in the Israeli pro-democracy movement. Even if it is just for the learning and keeping up to...

We just returned home from a quick trip to URJ Camp Kalsman in Arlington, Washington. Seth and I both had campers up at our local Reform...

The goal: To welcome people who are not Jewish into our community this Shabbat. Exposure! Connections! Demystifying! Sharing of our...

Why Tisha B'Av? For most of my life I have heard many liberal Jews, rabbis included, downplay the relevance of Tisha B'Av. Why? It...

Shalom! I am just back from a month of vacation. We went camping in the woods. Just my husband Seth and myself. Over the four weeks, we...

It is bright. This is what I can tell you. Our future is bright. Sustainable. Energetic. Growing. Joyful. Thoughtful. Kind. Generous. Kol...

Register today for our Kirkalnd symposium on antisemitism. https://www.kolaminw.org/events-1/kirkland-together-recognizing-antisemitism...

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...

In the summer of 2003, when Ozi was not even 3 years old, I was asked by my boss to attend Camp Kesher, a Jewish family camp on Vashon...

One of the most beautiful and uplifting aspects of Jewish prayer, for this rabbi at least, is a communal song. The songs and prayers we...

One well-known covenant of the Jewish people is brit milah, the covenant of foreskin removal on the 8th day. Also known as a Bris. I have...

“Everybody is going to be dead one day, just give them time.” Neil Gaiman The best gift you can give your children is a well-planned...

2023 SEATTLE MLK COMMUNITY WORKSHOPS and MARCH Show your solidarity. Young and Old alike. Help make the Jewish community visible at this...

When Joseph reveals his hidden identity to his brothers in this week's parashah Vayigash, he does so with emotion. He reveals himself in...

Jacob had a favorite son. Of his many sons. Twelve in all. You know one of them had to be genderqueer. And it turned out to be his most...

This Friday, 11/11, at 7:30 pm, Kol Ami is celebrating Free to Be You and Me (released on my birthday, 11/27/1972) through story and...

When I was a young adult, my home synagogue, where my father was rabbi, was shot up by a machine gun. Behind the gun: Chris Lord, a...