Category: Rabbi’s Turn

By Rabbi Ephraim Schwartz, West Seattle Torah Learning Center It was about four years ago, at around this time of year, when many from our local J

By Rabbi James L. Mirel , Temple B'nai Torah There is a passage in our Reform Jewish liturgy that states: "We are an ancient people well acquainte

By Rabbi Salomon Cohen-Scali, Congregation Ezra Bessaroth The Hebrew word machloket — dissension — contains the verbal roots halak and met. The fi

By Rabbi Alan Cook, Temple De Hirsch Sinai In 1955, the husband-and-wife songwriting team of Sy Miller and Jill Jackson wrote a song about their d

By Rabbi Zari M. Weiss, Rodef Tzedek This past summer, on a stunningly beautiful day, I went to Ellis Island. I had been there many years ago, but

By Rabbi Levi Backman, Chabad of Whatcom County "My Lord, do not pass from before Your servant." — Genesis 18:3 Our sages explain the above vers

By Rabbi Jay Rosenbaum, Herzl-Ner Tamid Conservative Congregation In my summer visit to Washington, D.C., I began to reflect on the parallels betw

By Rabbi Michael Adam Latz, Kol HaNeshamah Progressive Congregation Jewish tradition teaches us of the importance of t'shuvah, turning our lives a

By Rabbi Jill Borodin, Congregation Beth Shalom How does one prepare for the High Holy Days? Cooking, shopping, buying new clothes, extending invi

By Rabbi Mordechai Farkash, Congregation Beis Menachem - Lubavitch As any good homeowner knows, it's not the little boxes with the flashing lights

By Rabbi David Fine, Union for Reform Judaism The Jewish traditions and rituals surrounding the greatest of our joys — birth, reaching adulthood,

By Rabbi Bernie Fox, Northwest Yeshiva High School Every year I have the honor and pleasure to deliver a charge to the Northwest Yeshiva High Scho

By Rabbi Cindy Enger, Congregation Beth Israel, Bellingham Regarding Torah, the Mishna reminds us, "Turn it and turn it again; everything is in it

By Rabbi Sholom Ber Levitin, Congregation Shaarei Tefilah-Lubavitch Recently in a class discussing the concept of "Mishloach manot ish l'rayayhu,"

By Rabbi Yohanna Kinberg, Temple B'nai Torah Driving north today on I-405, I looked over at a car next to me and read these words on a bumper stic

By Rabbi Simon Benzaquen, Sephardic Bikur Holim Congregation It is so wonderful to have the privilege of reaching grandparenthood. One reason is t

By Rabbi Seth Goldstein, Temple Beth Hatfiloh Upon receiving change recently I noticed one of the coins I was handed was the bicentennial quarter

By Rabbi Ted Falcon, Bet Alef Meditative Synagogue I remember the story that was told when I was in rabbinical school about the two student rabbis

By Rabbi Anson Laytner, American Jewish Commitee My colleague and friend, Rob Jacobs, executive director of the Pacific Northwest chapter of the A

By Rabbi Solomon Cohen-Scali, Congregation Ezra Bessaroth Last year, the two Sephardic synagogues in Seattle organized two Shabbatonim around the