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Kol Nidre 5786 October 1 st , 2025 Rabbi Sydney Danziger Masa Seattle     If you will indulge me for a moment, I want to walk you through...

I’ve never considered myself a moderate, centrist, or even slightly conservative. I have always felt fully aligned with progressive politics and the Democratic party—a leftist, through and through. I am a straight-ticket voter who didn’t need a voter’s guide as long as I knew a candidate’s political party. For the past 44 years of my existence, that has worked just fine. As a Jew and a rabbi, I felt that progressive politics were the American manifestation of my Jewish values

I like to think of myself as a good writer, a fast writer. But this particular sermon, the one that I am going to give tonight, I have...

Want to get a taste of what we sound like at Masa Seattle?. Here is the link to a few songs from a recent High Holiday rehearsal. Make...

The pendulum of Jewish life often swings from one extreme to another and, yet, always comes back to a sacred center. Anyone who has...