Daily Kavanah – Friday, February 2, 2024
On Sunday I’m flying to Israel, my third trip since October 7. This time I’m leading a solidarity mission with members of our Wise family. We have three primary goals: 1) bearing witness to the atrocities, [...]
Daily Kavanah – Friday, January 26, 2024
This Friday night, on Homecoming Shabbat, we kick off our 60th anniversary celebration. Each day this week, a member of our our clergy shares some personal Stephen Wise Temple Moments. Tonight we begin the celebration of [...]
Search for Meaning with Dan Schnur
Professor, columnist, and host of "The Dan Schnur Political Report," Dan shares even-handed analysis on pressing political issues, from domestic policy to geopolitics. Rabbi Yoshi gets his take on the [...]
Daily Kavanah – Friday, January 19, 2024
A few years ago, right before the pandemic, I met the Pulitzer prize-winning author, Doris Kearns Goodwin, at a writers conference in Rancho Mirage. She was speaking about her book, “Leadership: In Turbulent Times,” which [...]
Whose Earth? It’s the Only One We’ve Got.
Whose Earth? It's the Only One We've Got.Rabbi Yoshi ZweibackJanuary 12, 2024 | 2 Shevat, 5784Your browser does not support the audio element.Dark humor is a common way Israelis deal with difficult times. With [...]
Daily Kavanah – Friday, January 12, 2024
I remember a conversation I had with my Uncle Alan a few years before he died. We were discussing a challenging moment that someone close to us had recently gone through and he said, “Well, [...]
Daily Kavanah – Friday, January 5, 2024
I think I first learned about the Cambodian genocide when I was in elementary school, probably when I was in fourth grade, in 1979. Maybe it was as part of a current events curriculum, or [...]
Daily Kavanah – Friday, December 29, 2023
This is the last Shabbat of 2023. Most would agree that this has been the worst year for the Jewish People and for Israel since the Shoah. What an awful sentence to read (and to [...]
Daily Kavanah – Friday, December 22, 2023
“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.” — Thomas Edison “One more try” is a central message of this week’s Torah [...]
Search for Meaning with Susie Lubell
In his latest "Search for Meaning" podcast, Rabbi Yoshi speaks with Susie Lubell (left), a self-taught artist and illustrator whose work has been included in galleries and private collections around the world. [...]