Daily Kavanah – Tuesday, September 27, 2022
It is said that the Gates of Repentance, the Sha'arei Teshuvah, open during the High Holy Days. Maimonides, the famed medieval philosopher, taught extensively [...]
Stephen Wise Temple leadership stands with protesters in Iran
On September 22, 2022, the Stephen Wise Temple and Schools leadership issued a statement expressing their solidarity with the protesters in Iran in [...]
Daily Kavanah – Thursday, September 15, 2022
Today is the International Day of Democracy, first inaugurated in 2007 by the United Nations to honor democracies worldwide. Though the first [...]
Daily Kavanah – Wednesday, September 14, 2022
Today, Christians across the world celebrate Holy Cross Day, which commemorates the discovery of the cross that—their tradition holds—was used in the [...]
Daily Kavanah – Tuesday, September 13, 2022
On this day in 1880, Jesse Louis Lasky, a pioneer in film production, was born to Jewish shoe store owners in San [...]
Daily Kavanah – Monday, September 12, 2022
On this day, in the year 1683, an army of Christian Europeans defeated the Ottoman Turks at the Battle of Vienna. Then, [...]
Stephen Wise Temple Yom Kippur Learning Sessions With Clergy
Join the Stephen Wise Temple clergy in Plotkin Chapel as they hold live learning sessions on the afternoon of Yom Kippur. This event [...]
Daily Kavanah – Thursday, August 25, 2022
Yesterday in 2006, the International Astronomical Union published its newest definition of a planet, stipulating that planets (1) orbit a star, (2) [...]
Shabbat of Sacred Rest, Shabbat of Sacred Responsibility
Shabbat of Sacred Rest, Shabbat of Sacred Responsibility Rabbi Josh Knobel At our Stephen Wise Temple Shabbat by the Beach, Rabbi [...]
Daily Kavanah – Thursday, August 11, 2022
Tonight marks the beginning of Tu B’Av, the 15th day of the month of Av. Unlike Tisha B'Av—a day of solemn mourning [...]