Daily Kavanah – Friday, November 4, 2022
I'm in New York this week joining 50,000 others for the 51st running of the New York City Marathon. It's my third [...]
Rabbi Yoshi Zweiback to Run New York City Marathon with Family
On Sunday, Nov. 6, Stephen Wise Temple Senior Rabbi Yoshi Zweiback will run the New York City Marathon alongside his wife Jacqueline Hantgan [...]
Daily Kavanah – Friday, October 28, 2022
I am writing these words for Shabbat on the morning of the fourth anniversary of the Tree of Life shooting in Pittsburgh, [...]
Stephen Wise Temple Clergy Response to Recent Rise in Antisemitism
The following, written by the Stephen Wise clergy, appeared in the Stephen Wise Temple Daily Kavanah on Monday, October 24, 2022, after a [...]
Daily Kavanah – Friday, October 21, 2022
I’m watching “The U.S. and the Holocaust,” a three-part, six-hour documentary by Ken Burns, Lynn Novick, and Sarah Botstein. It’s powerful and [...]
Search for Meaning with Rabbi Yoshi Zweiback and Rabbi Josh Knobel
In the latest edition of his Search for Meaning podcast, Stephen Wise Temple Senior Rabbi Yoshi Zweiback hosts Stephen [...]
True Joy
True Joy Rabbi Yoshi Zweiback Rabbi Yoshi reaches back 30 years ago to a Simchat Torah gathering in the Jerusalem neighborhood of [...]
Daily Kavanah – Friday, October 14, 2022
The holiday of Sukkot is known in our tradition as "Z'man Simchateinu—the Season of Our Joy." There are many reasons to rejoice at [...]
Daily Kavanah – Friday, October 7, 2022
This Shabbat is a breath between the heaviness of the Day of Atonement—with its focus on the difficult work of teshuvah (repentance) and s’licha (forgiveness)—and Sukkot, [...]
Search for Meaning: “Letting Go – To Grow,” Rabbi Yoshi Zweiback’s Yom Kippur 2022 Sermon
In the latest edition of his Search for Meaning podcast, Stephen Wise Temple Senior Rabbi Yoshi Zweiback delivers his [...]