Today’s societal anger and divisiveness may be what it looks like when we collectively try and bury the pain of loss rather than address it.
A Letter From the CEO: After Texas
We need to call this hatred what it is and call on those who are not Jewish to do the same. As history has taught us, we do not have a choice.
A statement on Colleyville from our CEO
As the assault on Congregation Beth Israel in Texas unfolds, we are once again left grappling with the reality of targeted hatred directed at Jews.
A November Message From Our CEO
Dear Friends, Our son Nativ turned 18 the other day. He was nine months old when we moved back to Seattle after I graduated from Rabbinic school. Nine years old when I started at JFS. I have a distinct memory of teaching him how to ride a bike. I was running beside him down our…
A Message From Our Acting CEO
Sharing that I work at JFS has led to unexpected and wonderful conversations with strangers and friends alike about their own connections to Judaism.
Echoes From the Canyon: A Message From Our CEO
I am more convinced than ever for the need to create more space for reflection and conversation—to understand the lived experiences that mold opinions.
Remembering Their Stories: A Passover Message From Our CEO
Let’s work to free others of the bondage of their seclusion, the hunger of their loneliness and the exile of their isolation.
Our Very Imperfect Union
I pray that we will not fall back into complacency and that we will all feel called to work together to perfect our very imperfect Union.
Healing Our Fractures: An Election Message From Our CEO
The act of service isn’t just a noun that we receive; it is also a verb—an action that we are called to do.
A Sukkot message from our CEO.
What Yom Kippur is to the spirit, Sukkot is to the body.
A Rosh Hashanah message from our CEO.
During this period, our tradition teaches, we must reach out to “clean up” our relationships and seek reconciliation.
A Heart of Many Rooms.
The Talmud—the 1,500-year-old proverbial scrapbook of Jewish legend, law and rabbinic debate—has something profound to teach us today.
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