The Eagle Who Thought She Was a Chicken
The Eagle Who Thought She Was a Chicken Rabbi Yoshi Zweiback and Rabbi Sari Laufer March 3, 2023 | 10 Adar, 5783 Your browser does not support the audio element. Watch video of [...]
Search for Meaning With Beata Poźniak
In this International Women's Day edition of his Search for Meaning podcast, Stephen Wise Temple Senior Rabbi Yoshi Zweiback hosts Beata Poźniak, a multitalented Polish-born filmmaker and artist who successfully [...]
Daily Kavanah – Friday, March 3, 2023
Each year, on the Shabbat before Purim, we observe Shabbat Zachor, the Shabbat of Remembrance. While remembrance is core to our tradition, on this Shabbat, we specifically recall Amalek and his treachery. Amalek, the [...]
Daily Kavanah – Friday, February 24, 2023: Rabbi Yoshi Announces Sabbatical
“Six years you shall sow your land and gather in its yield; but in the seventh you shall let it rest and lie fallow. Let the needy among your people eat of it, and [...]
Daily Kavanah – Friday, February 17, 2023
"When men fight, and one of them pushes a pregnant woman and a miscarriage results, but no other damage ensues, the one responsible shall be fined according as the woman's husband may exact from him, [...]
Wise Leadership Statement on Pico-Robertson Shootings
Our hearts go out to those affected by the senseless shootings in the Pico-Robertson neighborhood over the past 48 hours. The three victims were Jewish, and were shot from moving vehicles as they were leaving [...]
Search for Meaning With Rabbi Yoshi Zweiback and Rabbi Matthew Gewirtz
In the latest edition of his Search for Meaning podcast, Stephen Wise Temple Senior Rabbi Yoshi Zweiback hosts friend, colleague, collaborator, and author Rabbi Matthew Gewirtz, who has just published [...]
Wise Clergy Statement on Protests in Israel
"Send Your light and truth to all who lead and advise, guiding them with your good counsel. Establish peace in the land and fullness of joy for all who dwell there. Amen." —Prayer for the [...]
Daily Kavanah – Friday, February 10, 2023
In this week's Torah portion, Moses receives some much-needed counsel from his father-in-law, Yitro. Yitro notices how Moses sits for hours upon hours meeting personally with individual Israelites, offering them instruction, as well as adjudicating [...]
Daily Kavanah – Friday, February 3, 2023
Just a week ago, as Shabbat began in Jerusalem, we learned of the deadly shooting outside of a synagogue in East Jerusalem that killed seven Israelis and wounded three others. The gunman, a 21-year-old [...]