Wise Clergy Statement on Monterey Park Shooting
According to Chinese astrology and lore, the Year of the Rabbit is supposed to usher in a year of peaceful energy. All the [...]
Wise In The News: Rabbis Featured in Multiple Articles
Rabbi Sari Goes to Sacramento: On Friday, Jan. 6, Stephen Wise Temple Rabbi Sari Laufer traveled to Sacramento to participate in a pre-inauguration interfaith [...]
Our Clergy’s “Jewish Best of 2022” List
Our Clergy's Jewish Best of 2022 List Rabbi Yoshi Zweiback, Rabbi Ron Stern, Rabbi Sari Laufer, and Rabbi Josh Knobel giving their [...]
Daily Kavanah – Thursday, December 29, 2022
In the "Eco Bible" I introduced yesterday, each discussion of the weekly parsha (Torah portion) culminates with action items. Rabbis Neril and Dee guide us [...]
Daily Kavanah – Wednesday, December 28, 2022
I was recently reminded of a classic, ancient rabbinic parable. A passenger on a crowded small ship suddenly takes out a drill [...]
Daily Kavanah – Tuesday, December 27, 2022
From my vantage point as a teen growing up in New Jersey in the 1970s, California was barely on my radar. Of [...]
Daily Kavanah – Monday, December 26, 2022
Though Hanukkah is in our rearview mirror, its message of hope—that the few can triumph over the many— is an important principle [...]
Daily Kavanah – Thursday, December 1, 2022
Why Israel? Why synagogues? Why Jewish life celebrations such as baby namings, B'nai Mitzvah, weddings? In "Fiddler on the Roof," Tevye famously said: "Tradition!" To [...]
Daily Kavanah – Wednesday, November 30, 2022
What makes you Jewish? My friend, Rabbi Adam Naftalin-Kelman (Hillel Director at the University of California, Berkeley) said that the Jews are [...]
Daily Kavanah – Tuesday, November 29, 2022
What makes you Jewish? The painful reality of antisemitism is that it often pushes Jews inward. That is, when we feel threatened, [...]