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 [...]
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 – 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": [...]
Wise Mitzvah Day 2023 Proves a Smashing Success
by Rabbi Ron Stern The return of Stephen Wise Temple and Schools' Mitzvah Day on Sunday was a smashing success. Thanks to an [...]
Rabbis Sari Laufer and Ron Stern on what Passover means to them
Rabbis Sari Laufer and Ron Stern on what Passover means to them. Rabbi Sari Laufer and Rabbi Ron Stern April 7, [...]
Daily Kavanah – Shabbat Message from Rabbi Ron Stern – Friday, April 7, 2023
Our Daily Kavanot during Passover will feature pieces from our Wise Passover Haggadah Supplement. Each day, our clergy will focus on a [...]
Wise Responds: Judicial Reform Sparks Protests in Israel
Friends, We, like many of you, have been following the events in Israel with a mixture of concern and pride. Over the [...]
Remembering the Iraq war as Prisoners of Hope
Remembering the Iraq war as Prisoners of Hope Rabbi Ron Stern March 24, 2023 | 2 Nissan, 5783 Your browser does not [...]