Wise Helps Keep Families Together
by Rabbi Ron Stern The text came to my phone at 9:00 p.m. on a Sunday evening from Sue Kay: “My cousin works [...]
Proclaiming Liberty: Aspiring to the American Ideal
by Rabbi Ron Stern This week on our incredible mountaintop we’ve welcomed children to both Camp Wise and Wise Readers to Leaders. [...]
Love Your Neighbor as Yourself
by Rabbi Ron Stern Judaism sets the bar high for personal responsibility. Whether it’s the ritual laws of kashrut or prayer, the demands [...]
Memorable Seders
by Rabbi Ron Stern Last year, while officiating at the Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles interfaith seder, in a room packed with [...]
March for Our Lives Gallery
Click on each picture to open it. Wise members attended Saturday's March for Our Lives rally bringing signs, chants, and prayers [...]
Center for Tikkun Olam March 2018 Report
Passover marks the halfway point of our calendar, the perfect time to take stock of all that we have accomplished since the High [...]
Biblical Humor
by Rabbi Ron Stern What makes us laugh? It has been the subject of question for philosophers in ancient days, psychologists and social [...]
Building Homes, Building Hope
Building Homes, Building Hope by Rabbi Ron Stern The scene is all too familiar: we stop for a light at a busy intersection [...]
Stewards of Our World
by Rabbi Ron Stern Up until the establishment of kibbutzim in the land of Israel the words Jew and farmer seemed incongruous in [...]
The Flames of Hanukkah and the Flames that Surround Us
by Rabbi Ron Stern California is on fire! Our air is filled with smoke and ash, our pools have become black swamps, our [...]