Daily Kavanah – Friday, February 14, 2025
Today, February 14, is Valentine’s Day. As a Jewish educator, I struggle with how to align our Jewish holidays with secular celebrations [...]
Daily Kavanah – Thursday, November 30, 2023
Third grade students, Isabella and David, dive deeply into the Mi Chamocha prayer in their introductions to its words. Taken from the Torah’s song of the [...]
Daily Kavanah – Wednesday, November 29, 2023
Continuing this series highlighting words of wisdom offered by our third and fourth grade Wise Elementary Students at their morning worship services, the [...]
Daily Kavanah – Tuesday, November 28, 2023
This week I’m sharing words from a few of our third and fourth grade students at Wise Elementary school. The children are assigned [...]
Daily Kavanah – Monday, November 27, 2023
One of the high points of the week are the services that my fellow clergy and I lead with our Wise Elementary School [...]
Wise Stories 5784: Alex Raminfar
Stephen Wise Temple member Alex Raminfar delivered his Wise Story on Monday, Sept. 25, 2023, during our Yom Kippur family [...]
Wise Stories 5784: Sheryl Cooper
Stephen Wise Temple member Sheryl Cooper delivered her Wise Story on Sunday, Sept. 24, 2023, Erev Yom Kippur 5784, during [...]
Wise Stories 5784: Bryan Behar
Stephen Wise Temple member Bryan Behar delivered his Wise Story on Friday, Sept. 15, 2023, Erev Rosh Hashanah 5784, during [...]
Wise Stories 5784: Rabin Pournazarian
Stephen Wise Temple member Rabin Pournazarian delivered his Wise Story on Sunday, Sept. 24, 2023, Erev Yom Kippur 5784, during [...]
Wise School Teacher Sarah Shpall Wins 2023 Jewish Educator Award
When Wise School sixth-grade teacher Sarah Shpall was told early last week that there would be an all-school assembly [...]