Stephen Wise Temple joins with Volunteer Collective to provide shoes for L.A.’s homeless
From Sept. 28 to Oct. 16, right in the middle of the High Holy Day season, Stephen Wise Temple and Volunteer Collective are teaming up for the Walking Together Shoe Drive. You can clean out your closet and make a difference, as we collect new and gently-used shoes and new socks for men, women, and children. The campaign is a partnership with Shoes for the Homeless, Inc., which distributes the shoes to [...]
Stephen Wise Temple Tashlich at the Beach Returns for 2022
Tashlich at Stephen Wise Temple is a beloved tradition, and this year, we're bringing it back on Sunday, Oct. 2, 2022 for our 5783 High Holy Days. ALL AGES ARE WELCOME! Sunday, October 2 3 p.m. | Tower 24 - Santa Monica Beach Pack your bread, your blanket, and your picnic basket as Wise heads to the beach for Tashlich, the symbolic casting of our sins into the ocean in preparation for Yom [...]
Tot Shabbat returns to Stephen Wise Temple on September 10
This Saturday, Stephen Wise Temple's acclaimed Tot Shabbat will return for the first time this school year. One Saturday every month at 9 a.m., we welcome our community for a unique and festive outdoor service, where clergy and song leaders lead a music- and story-filled morning that introduces the youngest members of our community to the joy of Shabbat. Parents and grandparents will love it too! Our Tot Shabbat service is recommended [...]
JQ International launches Jewish LGBTQ+ teen mental health support group
In the interests of supporting our diverse community, the Stephen Wise Temple Center for Tikkun Olam and Rabbi Ron Stern would like to raise awareness of a new mental health support group for LGBTQ+ Jewish teens. JQ International, in partnership with the Jewish Federation Los Angeles, BTHS & LAJTI, is offering an inaugural virtual drop-in mental health support group for LGBTQ+ Jewish teens in California. Held the second Monday of every month [...]
Search for Meaning with Rabbi Sari Laufer and Rabbi Yoshi Zweiback
In the latest edition of his Search for Meaning podcast, Stephen Wise Temple Senior Rabbi Yoshi Zweiback hosts Wise's Chief Engagement Officer, Rabbi Sari Laufer. The wide-ranging talk between two colleagues covers Israel, summer camps, sign language, their respective Torah portions, authenticity, and the recent Supreme Court decision to restrict reproductive freedoms in Dobbs v. Jackson. The topic of Rabbi Sari's early Jewish learning brings up the [...]
VIDEO: Wise welcomes Lapidus and Myles for Gospel Shabbat
On Friday, Aug. 19, Stephen Wise Temple welcomed musical duo Lapidus & Myles to the hilltop for a special Gospel Shabbat. The evening featured music from our own musical team, as well as from Rabbi Micah Lapidus—the composer-in-residence of The Temple in Atlanta who grew up at Wise—and Baptist gospel singer Melvyn Myles from Historic Ebenzer Baptist Church, the former pulpit of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Below are videos of particularly inspiring [...]