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Rabbi Mark S. Glickman • Congregations Kol Ami and Kol Shalom
In late February 1946, Captain Seymour Pomrenze of the United States Army rode in a Jeep through Frankfurt, Germany. A blizzard howled through the city,…
Posted September 26, 2011


Rabbi Harry Zeitlin • Congregation Beth Ha’Ari
The Ramchal (Rabbi Moshe Chaim Luzatto), the 18th-century Kabbalistic master, begins his classic, Derech HaShem, The Way of God, with this statement: “Kol ish m’Yisrael…
Posted September 12, 2011


Rabbi Beth Singer • Temple Beth Am
The organizations we can’t live without
Posted August 29, 2011


Rabbi Jaron Matlow • Congregation B’nai Torah
Before I was a rabbi, I was a career Navy officer. I am also a veteran on total disability. With this part of what defines…
Posted August 15, 2011


Rabbi Bruce Kadden • Temple Beth El
I have just returned from spending a week on the faculty of Camp Kalsman, the regional Union for Reform Judaism camp, culminating with the camp’s…
Posted July 20, 2011


Rabbi Jessica Kessler Marshall • Temple Beth Or
We just celebrated the holiday of Shavuot, and when we explain this holiday, we typically say that we sanctify God’s giving us the Torah. But…
Posted June 20, 2011


Rabbi Chaim Levine • Hope for Heroism
As I write this column I’m sitting in Israel, A few days after Yom HaShoah and a few days before Yom HaZikaron, the Day of…
Posted May 9, 2011


Rabbi Daniel A. Weiner • Temple De Hirsch Sinai
What is our fascination with distractions?
Posted April 27, 2011


Rabbi Rick Harkavy • Congregation Bet Chaverim
“My father was a wandering Aramean….” It is with these words that our Passover Haggadah reminds us each year of the wanderings of our people…
Posted March 31, 2011


Rabbi Rachel Nussbaum • The Kavana Cooperative
Humility and tzimtzum
Posted March 24, 2011


Rabbi David Fredman • West Seattle Torah Learning Center
How we must bring all Jews together
Posted March 9, 2011


Rabbi James L. Mirel • Temple B’nai Torah
Dear JTNews reader: This column is addressed to those who are “unaffiliated.” The rest of you are welcome to read it as well. The word…
Posted February 23, 2011


Rabbi Berry Farkash • Chabad of the Central Cascades
I encountered  the following story on several Web sites: A number of years ago at the Seattle Special Olympics, nine contestants, all physically or mentally disabled,…
Posted February 9, 2011


Rabbi Jill Borodin • Congregation Beth Shalom
What to make of those broken shards of the original commandments?
Posted January 26, 2011


Rabbi Alan Cook • Temple De Hirsch Sinai
We must tone down the rhetoric and leave room for respectful dialogue
Posted January 18, 2011


Rabbi Avremi Yarmush • Chabad Jewish Center of Whatcom County
Or, denial is a river in Egypt
Posted December 22, 2010


Rabbi Jay Rosenbaum • Herzl-Ner Tamid Conservative Congregation
We can all learn something from Larry David — believe it or not
Posted December 8, 2010


Rabbi Zari Weiss • Congregation Kol HaNeshamah
The second Hanukkah blessing that recalls the historical dimensions of Hanukkah and brings them to today
Posted November 24, 2010


Rabbi David Fine • Union for Reform Judaism
How to make that one day each week something special
Posted November 9, 2010


Rabbi Ben Aaronson • Capitol Hill Minyan
For the sake of argument, some types of discourse are better than others
Posted October 27, 2010


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