Shabbat Shalom – Friday, February 20, 2026
I want to begin with October 7th — that Shabbat morning. I woke up to WhatsApp messages from my daughter and from friends and family in Israel. Confusion. Horror. The numbers kept rising. And [...]
Search for Meaning with Cantor Lauren Blasband-Roth
In this episode of Search for Meaning, Rabbi Yoshi Zweiback sits down with Cantor Lauren Blasband-Roth for a thoughtful conversation about vocation, music, and Jewish life. Lauren shares her journey to the [...]
Shabbat Shalom – Friday, February 13, 2026
This Shabbat is known as Shabbat Shekalim—the special Sabbath that comes just before the beginning of the month of Adar, always a few weeks before Purim. In our portion, we read about the half-shekel tax: an [...]
Shabbat Shalom – Friday, February 6, 2026
This week’s Torah portion, Parashat Yitro, brings us to the threshold of Sinai. Our Israelite ancestors have escaped enslavement, but they are only beginning to understand what freedom really means. As the story continues, we [...]
Search for Meaning with Professor Michal Bar-Asher Siegal
In this episode of Search for Meaning, Rabbi Yoshi Zweiback sits down with Professor Michal Bar-Asher Siegal, one of today’s leading scholars of rabbinic Judaism and early Christianity. Their conversation ranges from [...]
Shabbat Shalom – Friday, January 30, 2026
Last Shabbat, Rabbi Oded Mazor shared a powerful teaching with us about the plague of darkness that has stayed with me. The Torah doesn't just describe Egypt being plunged into darkness; it tells us [...]
Shabbat Shalom – Friday, January 23, 2026
Recently, I purchased a Google Hub for our kitchen. The speaker is pretty good and it’s nice to be able to simply call out a request and have music fill the room (“Hey Google, [...]
Search for Meaning with Peter Himmelman and Rabbi Steve Leder
In this special episode of Search for Meaning, Rabbi Yoshi Zweiback sits down with Rabbi Steve Leder and Peter Himmelman for a wide-ranging conversation about friendship, faith, creativity, and the moment we [...]
Shabbat Shalom – Friday, January 16, 2026
A tyrant and a tyrannical regime oppress a people—stealing their dignity, robbing them of their freedom, ruling through fear and brutality. It happens in so many places, in so many ways. For years, for decades, [...]
Shabbat Shalom – Friday, January 9, 2026
This week’s Torah portion, the first in the Book of Exodus, includes one of the best-known moments in the entire Bible. וַיֵּרָא מַלְאַךְ יְהֹוָה אֵלָיו בְּלַבַּת־אֵשׁ מִתּוֹךְ הַסְּנֶה וַיַּרְא וְהִנֵּה הַסְּנֶה בֹּעֵר בָּאֵשׁ וְהַסְּנֶה [...]