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 [...]
Bradley Sonnenberg Wellness Series Presents: Sarah Waxman
The Bradley Sonnenberg Wellness Series at Stephen Wise Temple Presents: "Journey Into Wellness: Sarah Waxman" Wednesday, September 13, at 7 p.m. | Online| Register Join us for an evening discussion for the Bradley Sonnenberg Wellness Series with Sarah Waxman, the passionate founder and CEO of At The Well. ATW is a nonprofit organization on a mission to enhance women’s wellbeing and wholeness through Jewish practice. Sarah will share her journey of mental [...]
Get to know Stephen Wise Temple’s High Holy Day musicians
Before the High Holy Day season arrives with S'lichot on Sept. 17, we would like to introduce you to the music team that will be guiding you through the Days of Awe at Stephen Wise Temple. A community is like a magnificent symphony–each individual person can create beauty and meaning on their own, but when we come together, the sounds and experiences shared have the potential to be so much more [...]