Heroes of the Holocaust: A Small Light

Niver In PRINT: Blog Bytes Winter 2022 Jewish Journal

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Thank you to the Jewish Journal for publishing me online for over twelve years. Since they resumed print publication in Fall 2021, I have been in the Blog Bytes section more than twenty-eight times! Here are the four issues that I was in during October, November and December 2022: Jewish Journal October 21, 2022: p. … Continued

Happy Holidays: Niver’s News: Dec 2022

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Dec News 2022 with Lisa Niver & We Said Go Travel: Happy Festival of Lights! Happy Chanukah! Merry Christmas! Happiest of all the Holidays to YOU! Happy New Year! I hope your 2022 celebrations have brought joy, light and warmth to your heart. At our house we lit the Chanukah candles and I love how every … Continued

Happy Birthday: Niver’s News: Oct 2022

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Oct News 2022 with Lisa Niver & We Said Go Travel: This is 55. Happy Birthday! As you celebrate another voyage around the sun, we hope today is as wonderful and extraordinary as you are. Wishing you a memorable day and that your life is filled with love, harmony and good health during the coming year. … Continued

Keeping the Faith in the Land of The Free

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Hello, my name is Robin Hanasab. My relationship with the Wise Community began in the 7th grade, roughly three decades ago. At the time, for me, it was the natural next step in my Jewish education. Growing up in a traditional Persian Jewish household, who escaped from Iran to pursue religious freedom, there was no … Continued

Shana Tova 5783: Niver’s News: Sept 2022

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Sept News 2022 with Lisa Niver & We Said Go Travel: Shana Tova 5783! This month starts the Jewish New Year. My family celebrated in Denver with our cousins and at our synagogue, Stephen Wise Temple, in Los Angeles. My parents were honored with an aliyah to say the blessing before reading the Torah. This reading … Continued

My Mother was the Center of our Jewish Universe

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by Drew Steinberg Jewish values and the importance of family are engrained in me because of my mom. Because of her, we celebrated Shabbat every Friday night as our family of four, at a minimum, while I was growing up. High Holiday meals and Passover seders had full tables of extended family (blood relatives and friends … Continued

This is Not Your Parents’ Hebrew School

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This is Not Your Parents’ Hebrew School: Wise CYE and Leo Baeck Are Reinventing Jewish Education On Sunday May 1, 2022, families at Stephen Wise Temple’s Center for Youth Engagement (CYE) celebrated an academic year unlike any other in the temple’s 58-year history, one which marked a re-imagining of Jewish education for children attending secular … Continued

Installation of Senior Cantor Emma Lutz

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Installation of Senior Cantor, Emma LutzFriday, March 25 at 6:15 p.m. | In-person and Online Since joining Stephen Wise Temple & Schools in 2016, Cantor Emma Lutz has made a significant mark on the Wise community. She has guided our Wise School students, mentored our youth, shared moments of joy and sorrow with our families, and brought beautiful, … Continued

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