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 [...]
Miracles, Faith, and Faithlessness – Lessons From Our Ancestors
Miracles, Faith, and Faithlessness - Lessons From Our AncestorsRabbi Yoshi Zweiback and Rabbi David WoznicaAugust 9, 2024 | 5 Av, 5784Your browser does not support the audio element.Rabbi Yoshi Zweiback and Rabbi David Woznica [...]
Daily Kavanah – Friday, August 9, 2024
A friend reached out to me last Tuesday evening with a rabbinic question soon after the news broke that Ismail Haniyeh had been killed in an explosion in Tehran: “Is it OK to be happy [...]
Can We Rejoice at the Downfall of Our Enemies?
Can We Rejoice at the Downfall of Our Enemies? Rabbi Yoshi Zweiback August 2, 2024 | 27 Tamuz, 5784 Your browser does not support the audio element. After a wave of assassinations of terrorist [...]
Daily Kavanah – Friday, August 2, 2024
In these last two parshiot of the Book of Numbers, the Israelites continue to prepare for life in the Promised Land. And, in their planning, two of the tribes of Israel make a seemingly problematic request of [...]
Search for Meaning with Hallel Abromowitz-Silverman
Rabbi Yoshi sits down with Hallel Abromowitz-Silverman, an Israeli activist and advocate. She first gained the attention of the public with her work with Women of the Wall that ended up [...]
Daily Kavanah – Friday, July 26, 2024
I’m not sure he was quite ready to let go; to give up his role as leader. On the one hand it is, objectively, an unspeakably difficult job; one filled with stress and aggravation [...]
Daily Kavanah – Friday, July 19, 2024
An enemy seeks our destruction. Before engaging us in battle, he sends a priest to curse us. However, the priest has integrity and thus tells the one who seeks our destruction that he can [...]