Daily Kavanah – Thursday, April 9, 2020
Once there was a country that selected its rulers with a special bird. Whenever it was time to choose a ruler the bird [...]
Daily Kavanah – Wednesday, April 8, 2020
Get rid of your Maxwell House Haggadah! I thought I was finished reminding folks that the Maxwell House Haggadah was a thing better [...]
Daily Kavanah – Tuesday, April 7, 2020
With her permission, I’d like to share a portion of an email I received from Wise member Adena Frank as her family is [...]
Daily Kavanah – Monday, April 6, 2020
In January of 1975, the virtuoso jazz pianist Keith Jarrett was scheduled to give a concert in Köln, Germany. The young and unseasoned [...]
Ethnic Studies: Too Important to Get Wrong
by Rabbi Ron Stern Wise members and many others in the Jewish community have expressed concerns about the California State Board of Education [...]
Responsibility vs. the Rush to Judgment
by Rabbi Ron Stern Every Torah portion is given its name by the first important word in the first one or two lines [...]
Elevating Jerusalem: Nurturing Our Love for Israel
by Rabbi Ron Stern There was a time that people would clip newspaper articles, save editions of magazines, or photocopy articles to put [...]
No Loyalty to Royalty
by Rabbi Ron Stern The Jewish people had kings (and one queen) ruling over them for nearly 1,000 years. How many can you [...]
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 [...]
Seeing Into the Future
by Rabbi Ron Stern How far can you gaze into the future? Of course, none of us has the ability to even know [...]