Stephen Wise Temple Shoe Buddies
Stephen Wise Temple and Schools' Shoe Buddies program is back! This wonderful initiative benefits every fifth grader at 93rd St. Elementary School in Downtown Los Angeles, where we will donate over 160 pair of new shoes. For many of these children, this is the first pair of new shoes they will have ever worn—as many have old, worn-out hand-me-downs from older siblings and donations. In addition, families with modest means are [...]
Stephen Wise Temple Blood Drive set for December 15
Stephen Wise Temple Red Cross Blood Drive Thursday, December 15 | 10 a.m.-4 p.m. | Udko Room | Sign Up Mark December 15 on your calendar for our next Stephen Wise Temple Red Cross Blood Drive. Since March of 2020, Stephen Wise Temple and Schools’ Red Cross blood drives have helped hundreds of people in need. Our last blood drive in June collected 25 pints, upping our community's total to 241 [...]
Stephen Wise Temple Receives Beit Issie Shapiro Next Generation Award
On Sunday, Oct. 30, Rabbi Ron Stern and Aaron Milken Center Director Keri Loventhal accepted the Next Generation Award on behalf of Stephen Wise Temple and Schools at the Beit Issie Shapiro Gala. The award recognizes Wise's commitment to teaching about the wonderful work of Beit Issie Shapiro to our children from early childhood through B'nai Mitzvah. Many Wise members were on hand as Noah Fakheri, Micah Melamed, and Donny Sipes presented [...]
Team Wise Wheels Completes Tour de Summer Camps
On Sunday, our Stephen Wise Temple bicycle riders—Team Wise Wheels—completed the Tour de Summer Camps ride, raising $12,000 to fund scholarships to Jewish summer camps in California. The weather, said Rabbi Ron Stern, was beautiful, and the ride was well supported by representatives from the many California camps benefiting from the scholarship dollars. Each rest stop offered delicious snacks and wonderful hot foods appropriate for hungry bikers. Team Wise Wheels rode hundreds [...]
Stephen Wise Temple to Host Veterans Day Shabbat
On Friday, Nov. 11, Stephen Wise Temple will host a special Veterans Day Shabbat. Originating in celebrations that commemorated the armistice ending World War I, which was signed at the 11th hour on the 11th day of the 11th month, Veterans Day has become a national day of recognition for those who have fought for and defended our nation, as well as their family members, who in many ways serve alongside them. [...]
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 and their three daughters—Isa, Ariela, and Naomi—to raise money for paralysis research. Believed to be the first nuclear family to run the marathon together, they will be running as Team Handsome Hank, in memory of Jacqueline's late father Henry Hantgan, who was confined to a wheelchair for the last [...]