Donate to Save the Syrian Children for Earthquake Relief
Through Save the Syrian Children, the Stephen Wise Temple and Schools community can help those suffering in the wake of a 7.8-magnitude earthquake that struck the Syrian-Turkish border this week. Seven years ago, Wise members Tamar and Philip Koosed founded Save the Syrian Children to help the helpless, delivering life-saving medical supplies for children and innocent civilians bombarded by the Assad regime. Over the years, Wise has helped fill shipping containers [...]
JDAIM at Stephen Wise Temple: Working with Israel ParaSport Center and Beit Issie Shapiro
February is Jewish Disability Awareness, Acceptance, and Inclusion Month, a unified effort among Jewish organizations worldwide to raise awareness and foster acceptance and inclusion of people with disabilities and mental health conditions and those who love them. Established in 2009 by the Jewish Special Education International Consortium, JDAIM is a call to action to act in accordance with our Jewish values, honoring the gifts and strengths that we each possess. Each week [...]
Join Stephen Wise Temple at Chosen Comedy Festival
Join Stephen Wise Temple at the world’s first Jewish Comedy Festival, "Chosen Comedy Festival" on February 14 at the Orpheum Theatre in Downtown Los Angeles! Tuesday, February 14 | 7 p.m. | Orpheum Theatre | Tickets Stephen Wise Temple is proud to sponsor the Chosen Comedy Festival, the world's first Jewish comedy festival. The Chosen Comedy Festival debuted last summer in NYC. It was so successful that they brought it to Miami [...]
Search for Meaning With Rabbi Yoshi Zweiback and Matan Koch
In the latest edition of his Search for Meaning podcast, Stephen Wise Temple Senior Rabbi Yoshi Zweiback hosts Matan Koch, the Senior Vice president for Strategic Change at RespectAbility, a nonprofit organization fighting stigmas and advancing opportunities so people with disabilities can fully participate in all aspects of community. Born 11 weeks premature with cerebral palsy and confined to a wheelchair for his entire life, Koch graduated [...]
Celebrate Shabbat Shirah at Wise
Shabbat Shirah at Stephen Wise Temple Friday, February 3 at 6:15 p.m. | Sanctuary | In-Person or Watch Online Join us on Friday, February 3 for an evening of soul, song, and Shabbat as we celebrate Shabbat Shirah with music and communal gathering. Shabbat Shirah, the “Sabbath of Song,” is the name given to the Shabbat on which we read Parashat Beshalach in the Book of Exodus. In that portion, the former [...]
Tal Becker at Stephen Wise Temple: “Israel and the Jewish Soul”
Tal Becker at Stephen Wise Temple: "Israel and the Jewish Soul: Understanding the Current Moment" Wednesday, February 8 at 7:30 p.m. | Plotkin Chapel | Register On the evening of Wednesday, Feb. 8, Stephen Wise Temple will host a special talk by Dr. Tal Becker, a Senior Fellow of the Kogod Research Center at Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem. Dr. Becker will give a presentation entitled, "Israel and the Jewish Soul: [...]