“Where None Shall Make Them Afraid”
“Where None Shall Make Them Afraid” Rabbi Yoshi Zweiback July 4, 2025 | 8 Tamuz, 5785 Your browser does not support the audio element. Watch this week's video and all Shabbat sermons HERE. [...]
Daily Kavanah – Friday, July 4 2025
Shabbat Shalom, Today marks 249 years of our independence as a nation.] We give thanks for the blessings of freedom, and we reflect on the founding ideals that have shaped America—ideals of liberty, justice, [...]
Search for Meaning with Daniel Robbins
What do you get when a Shabbat dinner meant to welcome a soon-to-be daughter-in-law turns into a night of secrets, revelations, and unlikely wisdom? You get Bad Shabbos—a comedy with heart, directed [...]
Daily Kavanah – Friday, June 27 2025
Shabbat Shalom, Last night I had a beautiful—and disturbing—dream, one I don’t think I would have had a few years ago. In the dream, I was moving from one dorm room to another on a university [...]
Daily Kavanah – Friday, June 20 2025
Shabbat Shalom, There is something undeniably peculiar about this week’s Torah portion, Sh’lach L’cha. Why would the Torah include a story in which God instructs Moses to send scouts to spy out the land of Canaan? Why [...]
Search for Meaning with Ambassador Gary Grappo – Israel/Iran War
Rabbi Yoshi sits down with Ambassador Gary Grappo, a former U.S. diplomat and expert on Middle Eastern affairs, for an in-depth and urgent conversation about Israel’s preemptive strike on Iranian [...]
Moral Complexity Is Not Moral Confusion
Moral Complexity Is Not Moral Confusion Rabbi Yoshi Zweiback June 13, 2025 | 17 Sivan, 5785 Your browser does not support the audio element. Watch this week's video and all Shabbat sermons HERE. [...]
Daily Kavanah – Friday, June 13 2025
Shabbat Shalom, This week's Torah portion, Beha’alotcha, opens with a commandment regarding the lighting of the menorah—the seven-branched lampstand whose purpose was to bring light into the sacred space of the Tabernacle. God instructs Moses: “Speak to Aaron [...]
Search for Meaning with Carol Leifer
Carol Leifer on Jewish Identity, Comedy, and Living Authentically Award-winning comedian and writer Carol Leifer joins Search for Meaning with Rabbi Yoshi for a candid and hilarious conversation about life, [...]
Daily Kavanah – Friday, June 6 2025
Shabbat Shalom, Last year on our congregational mission to Israel, my friend Yael Goodman led some of the members of our group on a running tour of Jerusalem. Just five minutes from our hotel, we came [...]