Daily Kavanah – Tuesday, May 31, 2022
With Shavuot beginning on Saturday night, June 4, this is the final week of the counting of the Omer. Today is the 45th day of [...]
Daily Kavanah – Monday, May 30, 2022
With Shavuot beginning on Saturday night, June 4, this is the final week of the counting of the Omer. Today is the 44th day of [...]
Daily Kavanah – Friday, May 27, 2022
When our Torah imagines the circumstances that might have led to the world’s first murder—Cain killing his brother Abel—it tells us that God says [...]
Daily Kavanah – Thursday, May 26, 2022
By every estimation, California is facing its worst drought in decades. Compounded by the likelihood of devastating heat waves this summer, 2022 will [...]
VIDEO: Rabbis Laufer, Balin discuss history and future of women in the rabbinate
On Monday, May 23, Stephen Wise Temple Rabbi Sari Laufer and the Stephen Wise Temple Center for Jewish Life hosted Rabbi Carole Balin, [...]
Daily Kavanah – Wednesday, May 25, 2022
"Judaism is a sustained struggle, the greatest ever known, against the world that is, in the name of the world that could be, [...]
Stephen Wise Temple leadership statement on Uvalde shooting
Dear Stephen Wise Temple and Schools community, We are absolutely devastated to hear of the shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Tex. [...]
Daily Kavanah – Tuesday, May 24, 2022
If you haven’t read Monday’s Kavanah, please check your inbox and do so before reading this reflection. “Hadestown” is a tragedy. At the [...]
Daily Kavanah – Monday, May 23, 2022
Like Cantor Emma and Adam, Becky and I recently attended a performance of "Hadestown" at the Ahmanson (the run ends May 29th). I [...]
Daily Kavanah – Friday, May 20, 2022
We are in the Omer period—a time in which we count the days leading up Shavuot, every day bringing us closer to Torah, closer to [...]