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Will Berkovitz

Jul 22, 2021, 1:12 AM

Echoes from the canyon: Conversations between generations

Time slowed as we rowed the Grand Canyon river: the profound immensity around us was measured in eons and millennia - not tweets, hashtags, and 24-hour news

Mar 26, 2021, 9:15 AM

What happens if no one remembers our story?

I received a call the other day from a number I didn’t recognize. It was the state-appointed guardian for the elderly neighbor who I wrote about last spring. I think she found my name on a scrap of paper...

Feb 27, 2021, 12:34 AM

Learning to sing the song of ourselves

My daughter and I have been reading one of our favorite books, The Phantom Tollbooth, which tells the story of a bored kid who lacks all curiosity toward the world around him. One of the characters he meets is the...

Feb 11, 2021, 8:39 PM

Our very imperfect union

After a running injury left me hobbled, my physical therapist recommended keeping my weight evenly on my heels to distribute the constant force of gravity throughout my skeleton. I was thinking of this experience in the aftermath of our nation’s collective near-death experience on...

Dec 14, 2020, 10:41 AM

This Chanukah, Let’s Remember The Power of ‘We’

Chanukah in Jerusalem is much like Seattle. It is often dark, usually rainy, with gusts of wind that chill to the bone. Walking through the narrow passages of the Jewish Quarter in the Old City after sunset, the lights from the Chanukah candles flicker...

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Rabbi Will Berkovitz is the CEO of Jewish Family Service, a Seattle-based social services agency founded in 1892 that helps vulnerable individuals and families achieve well-being, health and stability.

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