"Stars in the Night" - Kol Ami Newsletter 12-29-2020
12/29/2020 05:01:52 PM
Dec29
Rabbi's Week in Review
Last Sunday at our December Family Experience, our co-leaders, Erica Clinton and Cheryl Gates, presented a program in which Read more...
Last Sunday at our December Family Experience, our co-leaders, Erica Clinton and Cheryl Gates, presented a program in which Read more...
"Sharing Differences" - Kol Ami newsletter 12-22-2020
12/22/2020 05:03:07 PM
Dec22
Rabbi's Week in Review
As we wrapped up our celebration of Hanukkah for 5781, I made the casual observation that there seemed to be a greater awareneRead more...
As we wrapped up our celebration of Hanukkah for 5781, I made the casual observation that there seemed to be a greater awareneRead more...
"Sources of Light" - Kol Ami newsletter 12-15-2020
12/15/2020 06:45:22 PM
Dec15
Rabbi's Week in Review
Amid the challenges and darkness of a pandemic, and the ongoing threats to our democracy, we got a bit of welcome light thisRead more...
Amid the challenges and darkness of a pandemic, and the ongoing threats to our democracy, we got a bit of welcome light thisRead more...
"The Ways We Connect" - Kol Ami Newsletter 12-08-2020
12/08/2020 05:30:07 PM
Dec8
Rabbi's Week in Review
As Jews, we connect in two ways, and we can characterize these forms of connectedness as horizontal and vertical.
Our hRead more...
As Jews, we connect in two ways, and we can characterize these forms of connectedness as horizontal and vertical.
Our hRead more...
"A More Hopeful Future" - Kol Ami Newsletter 12/01/2020
12/01/2020 05:30:23 PM
Dec1
Rabbi's Week in Review
I got some much needed time away this week to celebrate Thanksgiving with some close family (read: family within our alreadyRead more...
I got some much needed time away this week to celebrate Thanksgiving with some close family (read: family within our alreadyRead more...
"Our Better Angels" - Kol Ami Newsletter 11-24-2020
11/24/2020 05:30:22 PM
Nov24
Rabbi's Week in Review
This past week in our Shabbat-morning study, we embarked on a discussion about the role of angels in Judaism. As a text for Read more...
This past week in our Shabbat-morning study, we embarked on a discussion about the role of angels in Judaism. As a text for Read more...
"Changing Minds and Hearts" - Kol Ami Newsletter 11-17-2020
11/17/2020 05:30:08 PM
Nov17
Rabbi's Week in Review
My seminary, the Academy for Jewish Religion (AJR — the one in NYC, not LA),
held its annual fall retreat last week. It isRead more...
My seminary, the Academy for Jewish Religion (AJR — the one in NYC, not LA),
held its annual fall retreat last week. It isRead more...
"Keeping calm ... and then carrying on" - Kol Ami newsletter 11-10-2020
11/10/2020 06:00:53 PM
Nov10
Rabbi's Week in Review
This may be getting redundant (I think it was last week that I was talking about emotional stress), but I cannot remember a Read more...
This may be getting redundant (I think it was last week that I was talking about emotional stress), but I cannot remember a Read more...
"Feeling the Stress" - Kol Ami Newsletter 11/3/2020
11/03/2020 04:05:08 PM
Nov3
Rabbi's Week in Review
I am feeling the stress. As I write this two days before the election, I am taking to heart what any number of pundits haRead more...
I am feeling the stress. As I write this two days before the election, I am taking to heart what any number of pundits haRead more...
"A Simple Message: VOTE" - Kol Ami Newsletter 10/27/2020
10/27/2020 07:54:22 PM
Oct27
Rabbi's Week in ReviewWe (finally!) reach November 3, and hopefully clear through some of the craziness and acrimony that havRead more...
"The Tree of Knowledge and QAnon"- Kol Ami Newsletter: 10/20/2020
10/20/2020 08:00:23 PM
Oct20
Rabbi's Week in Review
Last week, we read in our Torah about the Tree of Knowledge. While the common assumption and/or interpretation is that Adam Read more...
Last week, we read in our Torah about the Tree of Knowledge. While the common assumption and/or interpretation is that Adam Read more...
"No one right way to be a family"- Kol Ami Newsletter 10-13-2020
10/13/2020 07:01:23 PM
Oct13
Rabbi's Week in Review
Fay and I had special joy this week to be part of the wedding of my son, Solomon, and a member of the Kol Ami family, Lisa. Read more...
Fay and I had special joy this week to be part of the wedding of my son, Solomon, and a member of the Kol Ami family, Lisa. Read more...
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