Daily Kavanah – Friday, September 20, 2024
In late October 2023, I traveled to Israel. I felt compelled to go. I needed to see my family and friends. I needed to stand with them in solidarity, to show my support, to volunteer, [...]
Daily Kavanah – Friday, September 13, 2024
Like many of you, I’m sure, I remember exactly where I was early in the morning on September 11, 2001. My brother phoned me first thing in the morning and told me to turn [...]
Search for Meaning with Maor and Yossi Levy
Maor and Yossi Levy join Rabbi Yoshi to tell the story of the community of Kibbutz Eilon, just a few miles from the border with Lebanon. Their family, along with tens [...]
Daily Kavanah – Friday, September 6, 2024
Rabbi Yoshi shared these words at our memorial for the six hostages murdered by Hamas. Just a few days after October 7th, I saw, for the first time, a post on my social media [...]
Daily Kavanah – Friday, August 30, 2024
Many of us have probably already seen footage of the fences designed to protect the Israeli communities on the Gaza border being breached by the terrorists. Some of the openings they made on October [...]
Search for Meaning with Rabbi Michael Zedek
Join Rabbi Yoshi for a conversation with one of his childhood mentors and teachers, Rabbi Michael Zedek. Rabbi Zedek talks about his journey to the rabbinate and his new book, "Taking [...]
The Two Paths to Awe
The Two Paths to Awe Rabbi Yoshi Zweiback August 23, 2024 | 19 Av, 5784 Your browser does not support the audio element. From recounting his own experience in a bomb shelter to illuminating [...]
Daily Kavanah – Friday, August 23, 2024
If you saw it you would understand. The heartbreak. The utter heartbreak. Right before she begins her speech at the DNC with her husband, Jon, at her side, she hears tens of thousands of people [...]
Daily Kavanah – Friday, August 16, 2024
This week’s Torah portion includes a verse that is undoubtedly the most well-known to all Jewish people throughout time and space. For more than three millennia, these were the first Hebrew words that most Jews [...]
Search for Meaning with Arielle Mokhtarzadeh
Arielle Yael Mokhtarzadeh is a first generation Iranian American Jewish leader and advocate. She serves as Co-President of 30 Years After, a nonpartisan nonprofit committed to ensuring the Iranian American Jewish [...]