Search for Meaning – Who Is Like You, God?
In an inspirational sermon, Stephen Wise Temple Senior Rabbi Yoshi Zweiback celebrates creation, the Creator, and creativity. Learn more [...]
Your Ten Questions
by Rabbi Ron Stern Each fall I spend a semester teaching a new group of rabbinical students beginning their studies at Hebrew [...]
Blessed
by Rabbi Yoshi Zweiback A chapter closed for me this week: my oldest daughter went away to college. Jacqueline and I are [...]
Reaching Out During Elul
By Cantor Emma Lutz During this Hebrew month of Elul, our tradition creates time and space for us to prepare for the [...]
Yom Kippur is a Happy Day: If We Begin Now
by Rabbi David Woznica The Talmud teaches, “The Day of Atonement atones for sins against God, not for sins against man, unless [...]
Wise Community Seeks Reform
Last week, Rabbi Ron Stern lead a group of our Wise members to Sacramento for a day of lobbying for justice with the organization [...]
On the Cusp of the Month of Elul: Getting Ready for the High Holy Days
by Rabbi Sari Laufer Just two weeks before his death, Dr. Oliver Sacks, the neurologist and author, published his final piece of [...]
Ten Days of Turning
by Rabbi Yoshi Zweiback וּבַדָּבָ֖ר הַזֶּ֑ה אֵֽינְכֶם֙ מַאֲמִינִ֔ם בַּה׳ אֱלֹהֵיכֶֽם׃ Yet for all that, you have no faith in the ETERNAL your [...]
An Era of Introspection
by Rabbi Josh Knobel This week, Jews throughout the world will observe Tisha B’Av, or the ninth of Av, a day set [...]