Stephen Wise Temple Senior Cantor Emma Lutz’s Installation: Full Video
On Friday, March 25, 2022, the Wise community witnessed Senior Cantor Emma Lutz‘s Installation in a stirring Shabbat service at Katz Family Pavilion and Nahmias Plaza, an event covered by the Jewish Journal and the Los Angeles Daily News Cantor Emma was joined in her celebration by colleagues, mentors, and friends from throughout the country. Cantor Richard Cohn, the Director of Debbie Friedman School of Sacred Music at the Hebrew Union [...]
Jordan B. “Gorf” Gorfinkel educates Stephen Wise Temple and Wise School students about the Jewish morality of superheroes
Jordan B. "Gorf" Gorfinkel helps a Wise School sixth grader craft a panel for their graphic Megillah on March 17, 2022. Standing in Zeldin-Hershenson Hall, Malka Clement watched the man who changed the face of "Batman" comics gush over the artwork of one of her students. Wise School's Director of Judaic Studies began to cry. "I'm so moved," she said. "I just watched how transformative Gorf's workshop was with one [...]
Conversations About Ukraine: Rabbis Yoshi Zweiback, Matthew Gewirtz, and Sydney Mintz are joined by Jonathan Ornstein of JCC Krakow
In response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Stephen Wise Temple Senior Rabbi Yoshi Zweiback has initiated a series of Wise Webinars. Entitled “Conversations About Ukraine,” these webinars are designed to educate and inform. They feature Rabbi Yoshi speaking with experts on international relations, foreign policy, the human cost of the invasion, and the relationship between Russia and Ukraine. Conversations About Ukraine: Rabbis Yoshi Zweiback, Matthew Gewirtz, and Sydney Mintz are joined by [...]
Wise Webinars: Gary Grappo and Rabbi Yoshi Zweiback discuss the Russian invasion of Ukraine
In response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Stephen Wise Temple Senior Rabbi Yoshi Zweiback has initiated a series of Wise Webinars. Entitled "Conversations About Ukraine," these webinars are designed to educate and inform. They feature Rabbi Yoshi speaking with experts on international relations, foreign policy, the human cost of the invasion, and the relationship between Russia and Ukraine. Below, find video of Yoshi's conversation with the Honorable Ambassador Gary Grappo. Conversations [...]
Wise Webinars: Conversation About Ukraine with Kathryn Stoner, Ph.D. and Rabbi Yoshi Zweiback
In response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Stephen Wise Temple Senior Rabbi Yoshi Zweiback has initiated a series of Wise Webinars, entitled "Conversations About Ukraine." In these webinars, Rabbi Yoshi speaks with experts on international relations, foreign policy, the human cost of the invasion, and the relationship between Russia and Ukraine. On Wednesday, March 9, Rabbi Yoshi hosted Stanford professor Kathryn Stoner, Ph.D., for an in-depth conversation on Russia’s evolution since [...]