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Rabbi Shalom D. (Berry) Farkash • Chabad of the Central Cascades
A few weeks ago, the children were all home after the last day of school, and we were getting ready for the start of a…
Posted August 23, 2012


Rabbi Jill Borodin • Congregation Beth Shalom
One of my goals for this summer has been to expose my 6-year-old twin daughters to hiking. Over the past couple of weeks, we have…
Posted July 25, 2012


Rabbi Alan Cook • Temple De Hirsch Sinai
I have been blessed to be involved in a number of opportunities for interfaith dialogue over the past several months. In a variety of settings,…
Posted July 6, 2012


Rabbi Avremi Yarmush • Chabad of Whatcom County
In this week’s Torah portion, Korach instigates a mutiny against Moshe Rabbeinu. Throughout history, Korach has been vilified as someone who was corrupt and had…
Posted June 20, 2012


Rabbi Jay Rosenbaum • Herzl–Ner Tamid Conservative Congregation
A gift to our graduates
Posted June 4, 2012


Rabbi Ron-Ami Meyers • Congregation Ezra Bessaroth
The interplay between Passover and Shavuot
Posted May 21, 2012


Rabbi Zari Weiss • Kol HaNeshamah
On January 4, 2012, I had the privilege of participating in an historic event at the state capitol, when Governor Christine Gregoire announced she would…
Posted May 4, 2012


Rabbi David Fine • Union for Reform Judaism
Years ago I passed a signboard whose message has remained with me. “Religion is what happens after the sermon.” Simple and powerful. We are at…
Posted April 11, 2012


Rabbi Ben Aaronson • BCMH Capitol Hill Minyan
If you look at a glass of wine closely enough, you will see the entire universe. –Richard Feynman, Nobel Laureate physicist The Passover seder is…
Posted March 28, 2012


Rabbi Cindy Enger • Congregation Beth Israel
Several weeks ago, I traveled to New Jersey. I journeyed across the country from Bellingham to Princeton University to deliver the memorial address at the…
Posted March 13, 2012


Rabbi Sholom Ber Levitin • Chabad-Lubavitch of the Pacific Northwest, Congregation Shaarei Tefillah-Lubavitch
It was the summer of 2008, on a Shabbos afternoon in Brooklyn, New York, in the Hebrew month of Elul. It was the Shabbos before…
Posted February 29, 2012


Rabbi Daniel A. Septimus • Temple De Hirsch Sinai
A seasoned Jewish educator at a large Reform congregation once asked his religious school parents about their most meaningful Jewish childhood experiences. Without a doubt,…
Posted February 15, 2012


Rabbi Rob Toren • Samis Foundation
Much has been written lately in these pages about Professor Martin Jaffee’s final (alas!) column, his and the editor’s apologies, letters of praise and castigation.…
Posted February 8, 2012


Rabbi Sarah Newmark • Congregation Beth Hatikvah
Several weeks ago, I received an email from husband/wife rabbi friends announcing the arrival of their firstborn child, a son, after many years of disappointment.…
Posted January 25, 2012


Rabbi Jonathan Singer • Temple Beth Am
A few weeks ago, I found myself in an unlikely place: The Bavarian city of Bamberg, in the medieval cathedral of that German town which…
Posted December 21, 2011


Rabbi Jonathan Singer • Temple Beth Am
A few weeks ago, I found myself in an unlikely place: The Bavarian city of Bamberg, in the medieval cathedral of that German town which…
Posted December 19, 2011


Rabbi Seth Goldstein • Temple Beth Hatfiloh
On November 28, the first day of the special session of the Washington State legislature, I had the honor of delivering the invocation in the…
Posted December 5, 2011


Rabbi Moshe Kletenik • Congregation Bikur Cholim Machzikay Hadath
The recent revelations concerning allegations of deeply disturbing acts at Penn State University focus attention on the difference between technical legal requirements and moral obligations.…
Posted November 22, 2011


Rabbi Olivier BenHaim • Bet Alef Meditative Synagogue
A surprising turn of events happens in next week’s Torah portion, Chayei Sarah. We read: “Abraham breathed his last and died in good ripe age,…
Posted November 7, 2011


Rabbi Yohanna Kinberg • Temple B’nai Torah
The other morning I checked in with my 60-something-year-old mother. She seemed very tired. “I was up all night,” she told me. “I did not…
Posted October 24, 2011


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