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Steven Stark Lowenstein

Nov 13, 2025, 6:15 AM

from Wheels of Love taken with my Iphone I remember the first time I ever heard the expression. It was 1980 and Elwood and Jake, after having a religious experience, said, “We are on a mission from God.” Like...

Jul 27, 2025, 6:41 PM

Not a Normal Job

I’ve been thinking a lot about my first year in Rabbinical School 35 years ago this month. I had the great fortune this past week to be back in Israel with several of my congregants, the 7th time since...

Jun 5, 2024, 11:55 PM

Up to Jerusalem

In May of 1985, just before Shavuot, I was 21 years old and about to wrap up my time as a student abroad in Israel. In my Essence of Judaism class, taught by Rabbi Aaron Kirshenbaum at the Tel Aviv...

Jan 22, 2024, 2:39 AM

Zionism 2.0

I’ve always been an Emotional Zionist. I’m the rabbi that loves to tell the story of Golda coming to the Blackstone Hotel in Chicago in 1948 with no money and just a pack of cigarettes in her pocket and...

Dec 7, 2023, 11:06 AM

To Hug, To Help, To Hear

In the Torah last week we read…Jacob was left alone and in the darkness of the night he wrestled with a being all night long. Jacob wanted a blessing and would not stop until he received one. “No longer...

About Me

Ordained by HUC-JIR in 1995, Rabbi Stark Lowenstein has been a Rabbi in Chicago for 30 years the last 23 at Am Shalom in Glencoe, illinois. He is the author of For the Love of Being Jewish and For the Love of Israel.