Rabbi Stephen Wise

Rabbi Stephen Wise is the spiritual leader of Shaarei-Beth El Congregation of Oakville, Ontario, Canada. Rabbi Wise is the chair of the Interfaith Council of Halton, a member of the Halton Police Service multi-faith taskforce and treasurer of the Reform Rabbis of Greater Toronto.  He is an author and speaker on Israel as a “start-up nation”, with his first book “Israel: Repairing the World”. Rabbi Wise and his wife Cheryl, the director of Education at SBE, have 3 young children, Jacob, Talia and Alexa.

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Experiencing Israel

Israeli Inventions at Work

Rabbi Stephen Wise
A Camera You Can Swallow: Doctors in 60+ countries use the PillCam, a smooth capsule the size of a pill that patients can swallow, to determine best treatment protocols. Developed by Given Imaging, its miniature camera takes 50,000+ images inside the body over an eight-hour period.