Daily Kavanah – Friday, March 25, 2022
וַיֹּ֣אמֶר מֹשֶׁ֔ה זֶ֧ה הַדָּבָ֛ר אֲשֶׁר־צִוָּ֥ה ה׳ תַּעֲשׂ֑וּ וְיֵרָ֥א אֲלֵיכֶ֖ם כְּב֥וֹד ה׳׃ “Moses said, ‘This is what the Eternal has commanded that you do so that K’vod Adonai (God’s Presence) will appear before you.’” —Leviticus 9:6 The [...]
Search for Meaning with Rabbi Tarlan Rabizadeh and Rabbi Yoshi
In celebration of Nowruz, the Persian New Year, Rabbi Yoshi Zweiback welcomes the first female native Farsi speaker to become a rabbi, Rabbi Tarlan Rabizadeh. A leader, a brilliant educator, and a trailblazer as [...]
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 [...]
Daily Kavanah – Friday, March 18, 2022
This past Wednesday and Thursday, we celebrated Purim and remembered a time when our community was threatened by a genocidal demagogue. In that terrifying moment, we were very much on our own. There were no [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Rabbi Yoshi Zweiback in The Forward: Jewish History is Repeating Itself in Ukraine
In 1911, my grandpa Jake was born in the small Hungarian village of Torun in the Carpathian Mountains. While he was still a child, the village became a part of Czechoslovakia, and after World War [...]
Rabbi Yoshi in the Jewish Journal: The Harrowing Escape of a Chabad Group from the Ukrainian War Zone
Menachem Mendel Borodkin grew up in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. His wife, Rivka, was born in Ukraine. For the past five years, they have worked together in Dnipro in southeastern Ukraine, building Jewish community at Beis [...]
Daily Kavanah – Friday, March 11, 2022
Menachem Mendel Borodkin grew up in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. His wife, Rivka, was born in Ukraine. For the past five years, they have worked together in Dnipro in southeastern Ukraine, building Jewish community at Beis [...]
Search for Meaning with musician Elana Arian, Senior Cantor Emma Lutz, and Rabbi Yoshi
After her soulful performance during Stephen Wise Temple's Friday-night Shabbat services, singer, songwriter, and composer Elana Arian joins Senior Rabbi Yoshi Zweiback and Senior Cantor Emma Lutz for this edition of "Search for Meaning" to [...]