Rabbi Paul Kipnes

Rabbi Paul Kipnes is the spiritual leader of Congregation Or Ami in Calabasas, CA. He serves as rabbinic dean at URJ Camp Newman in Santa Rosa, CA, and as vice president of the Central Conference of American Rabbis. Rabbi Kipnes and his wife Michelle November co-wrote Jewish Spiritual Parenting: Wisdom, Activities, Rituals and Prayers for Raising Children with Spiritual Balance and Emotional Wholeness (Jewish Lights). He also co-edited a national CCAR Journal issue on New Visions for Jewish Community. Rabbi Kipnes serves on the Rhea Hirsch School of Jewish Education clinical faculty at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Los Angeles. His writings can be viewed on his blog, Or Am I? and he tweets at @RabbiKip.

Rabbi Paul Kipnes speaks at the Rabbinic Moral Leadership Gathering

A Mass Shooting and Wildfires Changed My Rabbinate. Here's How I'm Moving Forward

Rabbi Paul Kipnes
 December 24, 2018

So I am going home with moral clarity for these turbulent times. I am feeling refreshed spiritually, reinvigorated strategically, renewed in my commitment, and prepared to help bend that arc a little more toward justice. I have no doubt that the journey ahead will be difficult. But the passion and perspective I picked up will push us - my rabbinic partner and I - through my diminishing patience for the status quo to produce what I perceive will become new organizing opportunities.