Search for Meaning2025-02-26T06:48:48-08:00

Join Rabbi Yoshi Zweiback as he talks with an eclectic variety of thinkers, artists, and change-makers about their experiences (Jewish or otherwise) and their own search for meaning and purpose in their lives.

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Search for Meaning with Dafna Admati and Yarden Tzemach from Kibbutz Be’eri

Dafna Admati and Yarden Tzemach grew up on Kibbutz Be'eri, one of the communities hit hardest in the attacks of October 7: more than 95 community members were murdered and 30 taken hostage.They describe what happened to their beautiful, idyllic kibbutz on that day and over the past year. To learn more about how you can help with the rebuilding efforts, visit:https://www.rebuildbeeri.org/

By |December 30th, 2024|Categories: Israel, Post Oct 7 war, Rabbi Yoshi Zweiback, Search for Meaning Blog|Tags: , |Comments Off on Search for Meaning with Dafna Admati and Yarden Tzemach from Kibbutz Be’eri

Search for Meaning with Ambassador Gary Grappo – Regime Change in Syria

Rabbi Yoshi sits down with Gary Grappo, former U.S. Ambassador to Oman, Chief of Staff of the Quartet, and foreign policy expert with more than four decades of experience in the Middle East. Ambassador Grappo helps us understand the situation in Syria, the rise of Hay's Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) and its leader, Abu Muhammad al-Jawlani.

By |December 15th, 2024|Categories: Rabbi Yoshi Zweiback, Search for Meaning Blog|Tags: , |Comments Off on Search for Meaning with Ambassador Gary Grappo – Regime Change in Syria

Search for Meaning with Rabbi Josh Feigelson

Rabbi Josh Feigelson was appointed Executive Director of IJS in January 2020 and became President & CEO in April 2022. He received ordination from Yeshivat Chovevei Torah Rabbinical School in 2005, and served for six years as the Hillel Rabbi at Northwestern University, where he also earned a PhD in Religious Studies. In 2011, Josh helped found and served as Executive Director of Ask Big Questions, an initiative of Hillel International, which won the inaugural Lippman-Kanfer Prize for Applied Jewish Wisdom. Josh has also been a consultant and Senior Fellow at The iCenter for Israel Education. Most recently he served as Dean of Students at the University of Chicago Divinity School. Josh is a Wexner Graduate Fellow and was the founding co-chair of the Wexner Fellowship Alumni Committee. He is the author of Eternal Questions: Reflections, Conversations, and Jewish Mindfulness Practices for the Weekly Torah Portion (Ben Yehuda [...]

By |December 2nd, 2024|Categories: Rabbi Yoshi Zweiback, Search for Meaning Blog|Tags: , |Comments Off on Search for Meaning with Rabbi Josh Feigelson

The Gratitude List

Rabbi Yoshi shares his Yom Kippur Yizkor sermon which honors the memory of his mother, Hermene Davis Zweiback, who died 25 years ago. A few weeks before the Jewish New Year while cleaning up around the house, Rabbi Yoshi came across the gratitude journal his mom kept in the last month of her life. The sermon is a reflection on the lessons it contains. While it's a very personal remembrance, it's also universal -- it's about the people who are dear to each of us and the meaning their lives give to ours. The outro music of this episode is a setting of the Sim Shalom prayer that Rabbi Yoshi composed in his mother's memory twenty-four years ago. You can listen to it wherever you stream your music.

By |November 11th, 2024|Categories: Rabbi Yoshi Zweiback, Search for Meaning Blog|Tags: , |Comments Off on The Gratitude List
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