Moving and Shaking

By Ryan Torok
Published on April 24, 2013

Leaders from Los Angeles’ Jewish and Israel communities came together to celebrate Yom HaZikaron, Israel’s Memorial Day for its fallen soldiers and victims of terror, on April 14 at Stephen S. Wise Temple in Bel Air.

Milken honors educators

By Ryan Torok
Published on December 5, 2012

“We are planting seeds — not me, but all of us.” With those words of hope offered to her fellow teachers, Lidia Turner, a seventh- and eighth-grade Hebrew teacher at the David Saperstein Middle School of Milken Community High School, accepted the Milken Family Foundation’s 2012 Jewish Educator Award during an assembly at her school on Sept. 21.

Florence Zeldin, Rebbetzin of Stephen S. Wise Temple dies at 92

Published on May 30, 2012

Florence Zeldin, teacher, writer and wife of Stephen S. Wise Temple’s founding rabbi, Isaiah Zeldin, died May 20 at 92.

[PODCAST] An Emmy Nomination for the Kosher Porky Pig: ‘Looney Tunes’ ’ Bob Bergen [UPDATE]

By Naomi Pfefferman
Published on September 19, 2011

Milken school, Stephen S. Wise Temple severing ties

By Jonah Lowenfeld
Published on March 25, 2011

Milken Community High School and Stephen S. Wise Temple are severing ties, both institutions announced on Friday, March 25.

Yom HaZikaron remembrance service at Stephen S. Wise Temple [VIDEO]

By Rob Eshman
Published on April 19, 2010

What would Noah do?

By Jane Ulman
Published on January 3, 2008

On a ferociously cold evening in November 1978, Rabbi Everett Gendler climbed atop the icy roof of Temple Emanuel in Lowell, Mass., and installed solar panels to fuel the synagogue's ner tamid (eternal light).

"We plugged it almost directly into the sun," said Gendler, who rejoiced that the ner tamid was no longer dependent on the finite and politically questionable energy resources of the Middle East.

A privilege to share

By Susan Freudenheim
Published on February 8, 2007

"I do not think that the Holocaust can be forgotten," Elie Wiesel said. "It is the most recorded event in history. But I am afraid it will lose its uniqueness. I'm afraid it could be cheapened, diminished, trivialized."

Q & A With Rabbi Isaiah Zeldin

By David Finnigan
Published on February 12, 2004

If you spend a Saturday afternoon touring Stephen S. Wise Temple with Rabbi Isaiah Zeldin, you will be immersed in the living history of one of Judaism's great, modern temples. Resting atop 18 commanding acres off of Mulholland Drive in Bel Air, the Stephen S. Wise complex houses 11 buildings where once, 40 years ago, there was nothing.