Daily Kavanah – Shabbat Message From Rabbi Ron Stern – Friday, May 5, 2023
If you join us tonight, you’ll witness young people at two stages along their Jewish journey. Our Wise School sixth graders will [...]
Daily Kavanah – Thursday, May 4, 2023
We celebrated our first grandson’s Brit Milah in the beginning of April this year. He is the first grandchild on both sides [...]
Holocaust Survivor, Mother of Wise Member Honored by State of California
Last month, Stephen Wise Temple Board member Irene Boujo and her sister Genie Benson accepted a posthumous honor for their mother, Holocaust survivor [...]
Daily Kavanah – Wednesday, May 3, 2023
It's the height of wedding season in Los Angeles. Though we are a year-round wedding venue, there’s something about spring that calls [...]
Daily Kavanah – Tuesday, May 2, 2023
Truly one of the great opportunities given to clergy are the times that we guide someone who is choosing to become Jewish. [...]
Daily Kavanah – Monday, May 1, 2023
We refer to the tiniest Torah in our ark as the Shanghai Torah. Originally from Czechoslovakia it was smuggled out of Europe [...]
Daily Kavanah – Shabbat Message from Cantor Emma Lutz – Friday, April 28, 2023
This week, different members of our clergy will share thoughts about Israel. Today Cantor Emma writes about her complicated relationship [...]
Daily Kavanah – Thursday, April 27, 2023
This week, different members of our clergy will share thoughts about Israel. Today Rabbi Ron Stern writes on the "Israeli High Holidays": [...]
Search for Meaning With Ariela Cohen From “Your Soft Landing”
> In this edition of his Search for Meaning podcast, Stephen Wise Temple Senior Rabbi Yoshi Zweiback hosts [...]
Daily Kavanah – Wednesday, April 26, 2023
This week, different members of our clergy will share thoughts about Israel. Today Rabbi Sari Laufer writes on Yom HaAtzmaut. Confession: I [...]