Search for Meaning with Roee Azari and Amit Ben Shlomo
On October 7, Amit Ben Shlomo and Roee Arazi, members of the Givati Brigade, were called up for reserve duty in the Israel Defense Forces. A few months into this [...]
The Golden Age is Over
The Golden Age is Over Rabbi Yoshi Zweiback April 12, 2024 | 4 Nisan, 5784 Your browser does not support the audio element. In his weekly sermon, Rabbi Yoshi Zweiback talks about the [...]
Daily Kavanah – Friday, April 12, 2024
At the beginning of the pandemic, I embarked on a process of reflection with a few rabbinic colleagues about how we might navigate that moment of profound disruption. We were joined in those conversations by [...]
Search for Meaning with Yasmeen Ohebsion
Yasmeen Ohebsion, a senior at Tulane University, joins Rabbi Yoshi in conversation about antisemitism on college campuses today. Yasmeen, a leader in the Tulane Jewish community, recently testified in front [...]
Daily Kavanah – Friday, April 5, 2024
Tomorrow is called “Shabbat Mevarchim,” the Sabbath on which we announce the date of the coming Hebrew month. Since we are lunar people, Rosh Hodesh (the new month) coincides with the new moon. While [...]
Sharing the Burden
Sharing the Burden Rabbi Yoshi Zweiback March 29, 2024 | 19 Adar 2, 5784 Your browser does not support the audio element. In his Shabbat sermon, Rabbi Yoshi Zweiback highlights the idea that [...]
Daily Kavanah – Friday, March 29, 2024
My soul, my heart really needed Purim this year. Or, to be more precise, it needed the fun, silly, colorful, joyous part—the part where the kids dress up as Queen Esther or Mordechai, Spiderman [...]
Search for Meaning with Audrey Birnbaum
Audrey Birnbaum grew up in New York in the late 1960s, the child of a Holocaust survivor. When her father, Jack, died in 2018, Audrey discovered hundreds of pages of notes [...]
Daily Kavanah – Friday, March 22, 2024
Purim has a different resonance now, in the middle of this terrible war. Megilat Esther is essentially a Jewish fantasy about what it would mean to be given permission to fight back. And not [...]
Daily Kavanah – Friday, March 15, 2024
This week we’ve been focusing our daily kavannot on the life and legacy of our namesake, Rabbi Stephen Samuel Wise, whose birthday we celebrate this Sunday (he was born on March 17, 1874 and [...]