Category: Rabbi’s Turn

By Rabbi Simon Benzaquen , Sephardic Bikur Holim I want to share with JTNews readers the message I delivered to my congregation, Sephardic Bikur

By Rabbi Seth Goldstein , Temple Beth Hatfiloh Dear Mr. President, Mazel tov on your victory this election Day. This was definitely a hard-fought

By Rabbi Moshe Kletenik, Congregation Bikur Cholim- Machzikay Hadath This November, Initiative Measure 1000 will appear on the ballot in Washi

By Rabbi Ted Falcon, Bel Alef Meditative Synagogue Spiritual teachings sometimes flow from the most unlikely sources. One of my teachers this year

By Rabbi Jacob Fine, Hillel at UW The air has become crisp with the smell of fall, and with the change in season comes the reminder that the High

By Rabbi Anson Laytner, American Jewish Committee Twentieth-century America was the era of civil rights. The National American Woman Suffrage Asso

By Rabbi Harry Zeitlin , Congregation Beth Ha'Ari As the rhythm of the Jewish year flows from past setbacks, failures and disasters typified by T

By Rabbi Mark S. Glickman, Congregations Kol Ami and Kol Shalom How shall we sing God's song in a foreign land? — Psalms 137:2 When I was growing

By Rabbi Jacob Izakson , Temple Beth Shalom, Spokane On May 12, a 98-year-old lady named Irena Sendler passed away in Warsaw, Poland. During Wor

By Barbara H. Brandt , The Secular Jewish Cirlce of Puget Sound There are two persistent commandments in the Torah: have no strange gods and welco

By Rabbi Beth Singer, Temple Beth Am We Jews, like all other constituencies in America, have been caught up in the drama, headache and excitement

By Rabbi Daniel Lapin, American Alliance of Jews and Christians It's a good thing that more Americans attend synagogue or church each week than go

By Rabbi Bruce Kadden, Temple Beth El We are approaching Shavuot, the Feast of Weeks, as we continue to count the omer, taking us from the Exodus

By Rabbi Josh Hearshen, Herzl-Ner Tamid Conservative Congregation We are in the season of saluting parents. We have Mother's Day and Father's Day.

By Rabbi Avrohom David, The Seattle Kollel "Rabbi, are you growing a beard?" It's a question I hear often at this time of the year. The period b

By Rabbi Elazar Bogomilsky, Chai Center of Seattle As I prepare to sit down to the seder again with family and guests, I think about a question on

By Rabbi Chaim Levine, LivingJudaism o·pin·ion (e-pin`yen) n.— Belief or judgment that rests on grounds insufficient to produce complete certainty

By Rabbi Shalom D. (Berry) Farkash, Chabad of the Central Cascades Since it is Purim today, we need to say l'chaim, so l'chaim, l'chaim v'livracha

By Rabbi Yechezchel Kornfeld, Congregation Shevet Achim The "Hot Topic" in all Jewish communities throughout the world is how best to ensure the

By Rabbi Rachel Nussbaum, The Kavana Cooperative We've experienced a dramatic shift in the content of our Torah reading over the past couple of we