Search for Meaning with Rabbi Sydney Mintz
In this episode of Search for Meaning, host Yoshi Zweiback sits down with dear friend and esteemed spiritual leader Rabbi Sydney Mintz. Rabbi Mintz, longtime rabbi at Congregation Emanu-El in San Francisco [...]
Shabbat Shalom – Friday, October 17, 2025
It started 26 days after her son was kidnapped from the Nova music festival. Rachel Goldberg-Polin tore a strip of masking tape, wrote a number on it, and pressed it to her chest. The next [...]
Shabbat Shalom – Friday, October 10, 2025
This past Tuesday, the Jewish world marked a heartbreaking milestone: two years since that terrible day that changed all of our lives. It was also the first day of the joyous holiday of Sukkot, [...]
Search for Meaning with Rania Fadel Dean
In this episode of Search for Meaning, Rabbi Yoshi Zweiback speaks with Rania Fadel Dean, a leader of the Druze community in Los Angeles and founder of Covenant of Blood (Brit Damim). Together they explore [...]
Shabbat Shalom – Friday, October 3, 2025
I hope your fast was meaningful, that the sermons offered inspiration, the music lifted your spirit, and that you felt embraced by the warmth of our community during these High Holy Days. If you missed [...]
Shabbat Shalom – Friday, September 26, 2025
Earlier this week, we gathered as a community—both in person and online—to offer our heartfelt prayers at the dawn of the new year. One of the most powerful and haunting prayers of this season [...]
Search for Meaning with Abigail Pogrebin and Rabbi Dov Linzer
What happens when a Reform journalist and an Orthodox rabbi spend years studying Torah together? In this episode of Search for Meaning, Rabbi Yoshi Zweiback welcomes Abigail Pogrebin and Rabbi Dov Linzer to talk about their [...]
Wise Words – Monday, September 22, 2025
Dear Friends, As the New Year of 5786 approaches, we are filled with gratitude for the gift of belonging to this extraordinary Stephen Wise Temple and Schools community. Our guiding value this year is [...]
Shabbat Shalom – Friday, September 19, 2025
A story from our tradition comes to teach us something enduring about this week’s Torah portion — and about life, especially the life of the Jewish people. A teacher once saw her young students [...]
Shabbat Shalom – Friday, September 12, 2025
As 5785 draws to a close, Parashat Ki Tavo reminds us that the choices we make, as individuals and as a community, can shape the future we inherit—at times bringing blessings, at other times bringing curses. [...]