Israel: A beacon of LGBTQ+ inclusion in the Middle East
by Rabbi Yoshi Zweiback June is known as Pride month in America as an acknowledgment of the transformational change in perception around LGBTQ+ [...]
UTLA misses mark on anti-Israel resolution
by Rabbi Yoshi Zweiback My father is a retired surgeon. Whenever he would hear about a fellow doctor opening a restaurant or some [...]
Naming antisemitism when we see it
by Rabbi Yoshi Zweiback The other day a friend of mine who lives on the East Coast reached out to me about a [...]
John Oliver fails Natan Sharansky’s “3D Test”
by Rabbi Yoshi Zweiback Last week the comedian John Oliver devoted a segment of his HBO show to the Israel-Palestine conflict. He acknowledged [...]
Wise Readers to Leaders News – January 2021
Wise Readers to Leaders Remote Program (2020-21) Wise Readers to Leaders in past years during the summer [...]
Changing the world on Sukkot
The Shelter of the Sukkah by Rabbi Ron Stern For more than 2,500 years Jews have been gathering for Sukkot. Whether at the [...]
An Update from Our Partner, Israel Sport Center for the Disabled
Stephen Wise Temple is proud to partner with Israel Sport Center for the Disabled, an incredible organization that does so much for so [...]
A Message from the Stephen Wise Temple Community to the Nessah Synagogue Community
From the Stephen Wise Temple Community to the Nessah Synagogue Community: Your sanctuary, your place of assembly, your source of comfort, the place [...]
Befriending the Stranger
by Rabbi Ron Stern Each morning when I drive to work, I pass under a freeway. There, under the bridge, shivering in the [...]
Housing the Homeless: A Five-Part Series
Housing the Homeless: Dinner with Tommy Newman, Director of Public Affairs for the United Way Friday, May 24 | 7:30 p.m. REGISTER HERE [...]