Wise Members Volunteer at JCC Krakow
When she started school at Harvard Westlake this fall, 12-year-old Tali Kann heard stories from friends about their summer vacations to sun-drenched tropical locales. When asked how she spent hers, her stories were somewhat different: She spent a week with refugees escaping a war zone. “They were like, ‘WHAT?! You did what now?!’” said Tali. “Then, I told them: ‘It’s called the JCC,’ and I explained to them what [...]
Stephen Wise Temple Blood Drive Surpasses Goal
Stephen Wise Temple and Schools' community blood drive on Thursday was a massive success, collecting 30 units of blood for the Red Cross. "Wise Temple is our 'rock' of the Hill and big lifesavers for us this season," said Red Cross account manager Nina Minton. "The units we collected on Wednesday truly helped our supply during this 'Big Need' holiday shortage. We can’t thank you and our community enough for your overwhelming [...]
Wise School LEGO and Debate Teams Shine in Competition
The Wise School LEGO robotics teams and Wise School debate teams have kicked off their competition schedule, and will head into Winter Break with quite a bit of hardware. Led by teacher Mandy Snyder, the Wise School fifth and sixth grade debaters hosted the six other schools of the Golden West Debate League for a tournament right here on the Wise Campus this past Sunday. The tournament consisted of 107 debaters and 37 [...]
Search for Meaning With Rabbi Yoshi Zweiback and “Four Winters” Director Julia Mintz
In the latest edition of his Search for Meaning podcast, Stephen Wise Temple Senior Rabbi Yoshi Zweiback hosts Julia Mintz, the director of acclaimed Holocaust documentary "Four Winters," a story of Jewish resistance against the Nazis now playing at the Lumiere Cinema in Beverly Hills for a limited engagement. You can purchase TICKETS HERE, and watch the trailer HERE. Awarded the "Human Rights Award" at Hamptons Doc Fest, [...]
Wise School Hosts Athletes from ISCD, Israel Sport Center for the Disabled
On Monday, Wise School students were treated to a presentation and a Q&A with athletes from the Israel Sport Center for the Disabled (ISCD), a longtime tikkun olam partner of Stephen Wise Temple and Schools. Leading the presentation was Boaz Kramer, ISCD's executive director. A 15-year veteran of Israel's national wheelchair tennis team, Kramer won the World Cup for wheelchair tennis and was a quarterfinalist at the London Paralympic Games in 2012. [...]
Search for Meaning With Rabbi Yoshi Zweiback and Rabbi Ken Chasen
In the latest edition of his Search for Meaning podcast, Stephen Wise Temple Senior Rabbi Yoshi Zweiback hosts his friend of 40 years, Rabbi Ken Chasen. The Ordination Seminar instructor at HUC-JIR's Skirball Campus, Rabbi Chasen is also the Senior Rabbi at Leo Baeck Temple, which partners with Wise's Center for Youth Engagement and currently hosts our Aaron Milken Center Parenting Center during construction of our transformational new [...]