Category: Rabbi’s Turn

By Rabbi Jessica Kessler Marshall , Temple Beth Or We just celebrated the holiday of Shavuot, and when we explain this holiday, we typically say t

By 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 HaZi

By Rabbi Daniel A. Weiner, Temple De Hirsch Sinai Is it senseless hype or civil heresy? Simple celebrity stalking or something deeper and more dis

By Rabbi Rick Harkavy, Congregation Bet Chaverim "My father was a wandering Aramean...." It is with these words that our Passover Haggadah remind

By Rabbi Rachel Nussbaum, The Kavana Cooperative At a conference earlier this year, I heard a denominational leader now close to retirement ask wh

By Rabbi David Fredman, West Seattle Torah Learning Center A few weeks ago I was at an event in town and a friend of mine came over. We began to d

By 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 wel

By Rabbi Berry Farkash, Chabad of the Central Cascades I encountered the following story on several Web sites: A number of years ago at the Seatt

By Rabbi Jill Borodin, Congregation Beth Shalom "Luchot v'shivre luchot menuchim ba'aron" — "The whole tablets and the broken tablets rested insi

By Rabbi Alan Cook , Temple De Hirsch Sinai It was my honest intent to write an upbeat article for my guest stint in the JTNews. A reflection on t

By Rabbi Avremi Yarmush, Chabad Jewish Center of Whatcom County As a child growing up, my father would always repeat an epithet of Rabbi Shneur Za

By Rabbi Jay Rosenbaum, Herzl-Ner Tamid Conservative Congregation The character Larry David plays on TV is one of the most annoying, infuriating p

By Rabbi Zari Weiss, Congregation Kol HaNeshamah As the sun begins to set on Wednesday evening, Jews and their families throughout the world will

By Rabbi David Fine , Union for Reform Judaism Questions. We love questions, and we love asking questions of our rabbis. How many letters are in t

By Rabbi Ben Aaronson , Capitol Hill Minyan Richard Feynman, recipient of the Nobel Prize in physics, worked as a young graduate on the Manhattan

By Rabbi Sholom Ber Levitin, Regional Director, Chabad of Washington State and Congregation Shaarei Tefilah-Lubavitch As a prerequisite for atone

By Rabbi Cindy Enger, Congregation Beth Israel, Bellingham Shortly before Rosh Hashanah, the Congregation Beth Israel synagogue community enjoyed

By Rabbi Mark Spiro , LivingJudaism Everyone knows the story of David and Goliath. But how many people know that the difference between these famo

By Rabbi Daniel A. Septimus, Temple De Hirsch Sinai In the Winter 2009 edition of Reform Judaism Magazine, the Union for Reform Judaism shared the

By Rabbi Bernie Fox, Northwest Yeshiva High School My wife Shirley and I spent this past Shabbat in Pittsburgh visiting my mother. In the morning,