Daily Kavanah – Friday, June 20 2025
Shabbat Shalom, There is something undeniably peculiar about this week’s Torah portion, Sh’lach L’cha. Why would the Torah include a story in which God instructs Moses to send scouts to spy out the land of Canaan? Why [...]
Search for Meaning with Ambassador Gary Grappo – Israel/Iran War
Rabbi Yoshi sits down with Ambassador Gary Grappo, a former U.S. diplomat and expert on Middle Eastern affairs, for an in-depth and urgent conversation about Israel’s preemptive strike on Iranian [...]
Moral Complexity Is Not Moral Confusion
Moral Complexity Is Not Moral Confusion Rabbi Yoshi Zweiback June 13, 2025 | 17 Sivan, 5785 Your browser does not support the audio element. Watch this week's video and all Shabbat sermons HERE. [...]
Daily Kavanah – Friday, June 13 2025
Shabbat Shalom, This week's Torah portion, Beha’alotcha, opens with a commandment regarding the lighting of the menorah—the seven-branched lampstand whose purpose was to bring light into the sacred space of the Tabernacle. God instructs Moses: “Speak to Aaron [...]
Search for Meaning with Carol Leifer
Carol Leifer on Jewish Identity, Comedy, and Living Authentically Award-winning comedian and writer Carol Leifer joins Search for Meaning with Rabbi Yoshi for a candid and hilarious conversation about life, [...]
Daily Kavanah – Friday, June 6 2025
Shabbat Shalom, Last year on our congregational mission to Israel, my friend Yael Goodman led some of the members of our group on a running tour of Jerusalem. Just five minutes from our hotel, we came [...]
Daily Kavanah – Friday, May 30, 2025
On Sunday, May 18 Stephen Wise Temple was honored to host the ordination ceremony of the Hebrew Union College. We welcomed and witnessed nine new Rabbis being minted! Our intern, Yael Farber, celebrated her [...]
Remembering Sarah and Yaron
Remembering Sarah and Yaron Rabbi Yoshi Zweiback and Rabbi Josh Knobel May 23, 2025 | 25 Nisan, 5785 Your browser does not support the audio element. Our own veteran, Rabbi Josh Knobel, shared his [...]
Search for Meaning with David Suissa
In this powerful and wide-ranging conversation, Rabbi Yoshi sits down with David Suissa—Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of Tribe Media and the Jewish Journal—to explore the deep currents shaping Jewish life today. A passionate voice in [...]
Daily Kavanah – Friday, May 23, 2025
We are in mourning.We are scared.We are angry.On Wednesday night, outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C., two Israeli embassy employees—Sarah Milgrim and Yaron Lischinsky—were murdered in cold blood. They were attending an event [...]