Search for Meaning with Rabbi Angela Buchdahl
Watch the video podcast on YouTube In this episode of Search for Meaning, Rabbi Yoshi Zweiback sits down with a colleague and friend, Rabbi Angela Buchdahl, senior rabbi of [...]
Shabbat Shalom – Friday, March 27, 2026
To offer a sacrifice in ancient Israel, you needed fire. And since sacrifices were offered daily, the Torah instructs the priests in this week’s parasha to kindle an אֵשׁ תָּמִיד (eish tamid)—a fire that never goes [...]
Shabbat Shalom – Friday, March 20, 2026
As a kid growing up in Omaha, Nebraska, March 17 meant remembering to wear something green to school—or risk getting pinched by a classmate. Today, that date carries a very different and far more meaningful [...]
The true meaning of the menorah
The True Meaning of the Menorah Rabbi Yoshi ZweibackMarch 13, 2026 | 25 Adar, 5786Your browser does not support the audio element.Watch this week's video and all Shabbat sermons HERE.
Search for Meaning with Rabbis Ed Feinstein and David Woznica (Part II)
In the second installment of this wide-ranging conversation, Rabbi Yoshi continues his dialogue with Rabbi Ed Feinstein and Rabbi David Woznica — turning from personal story to the larger questions pressing [...]
Shabbat Shalom – Friday, March 13, 2026
Exodus begins in trauma. A Pharaoh comes to power who willfully forgets Joseph, forgetting that one of the Jewish people was the architect of Egypt's salvation.Oppression follows. Then murder.And then, finally, the struggle for liberation [...]
Shabbat Shalom – Friday, March 6, 2026
This past Shabbat, we read the Torah verses commanding us to remember Amalek, the paradigmatic enemy of the Jewish people, who attacked our ancestors from behind while they were vulnerable in the wilderness. In Jewish [...]
The Kotel Belongs to All of Us
The Kotel Belongs to All of Us Rabbi Yoshi Zweiback February 27, 2026 | 11 Adar, 5786 Your browser does not support the audio element. Watch this week's video and all Shabbat sermons HERE. [...]
Search for Meaning with Rabbis Ed Feinstein and David Woznica (Part I)
In this first installment of a special two-part conversation, Rabbi Yoshi sits down live with Rabbi Ed Feinstein, longtime senior rabbi of Valley Beth Shalom, and Rabbi David Woznica, who has [...]
Shabbat Shalom – Friday, February 27, 2026
I still remember my first visit to the Kotel, the Western Wall in Jerusalem, one of the holiest sites in Jewish tradition.It was 1978. We had come as a family to celebrate the b’nai mitzvah [...]