IKAR Podcasts

IKAR Podcasts

Sermons, talks, classes, and more from IKAR Rabbis and the IKAR community.

Episodes

Alana Zeitchik in Conversation with Rabbi Sharon Brous

October 12, 2025 • 57 mins
A conversation in recognition of October 7th with Rabbi Sharon Brous and Alana Zeitchik, an Israeli-American peace advocate.
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Redwood Trees & Jewish People - Rabbi Bradley Artson

October 12, 2025 • 13 mins
A lighthearted and serious look at the shared strengths of the most majestic of trees and the ancient resilient Children of Israel.
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The Mountain, the Hair, and the Great Repair - Rabbinic Intern Jacob Schatz | Sukkot

October 10, 2025 • 17 mins
Examining how our perceptions inform our beliefs and behaviors, through the Babylonian Talmud's account of the ancient Water-Drawing Festival.
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Gathering Joy - Rabbi Deborah Silver

October 5, 2025 • 13 mins
As we move from the peak experiences of the High Holydays into Sukkot, how will we gather in our joy? What practices can we adopt for Sukkot, whether or not we are able to build a Sukkah? And what role does this joy have to play in our experience of Sukkot and beyond?
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The Age of Rage is Upon Us. We Must Make Love Our Home. - Rabbi Sharon Brous | Yom Kippur Sermon

October 2, 2025 • 31 mins
I turned to King David and the Prophet Natan to learn how to fight fascism. I learned something much deeper and more sustaining for our time.
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Before the Dove, there was a Raven - Rabbi Morris Panitz

October 2, 2025 • 22 mins
We cannot bypass the pain in pursuit of the promise. Only by confronting the trauma of our past, both individual and collective, can we build a future of expansive possibility.
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We Don't Have Forever - Rabbi Sharon Brous & Lori Gottlieb | Rosh Hashanah Day 2 5786 Sermon-Dialogue

September 24, 2025 • 46 mins
Living meaningfully with the time we've got. Join Rabbi Brous and Lori Gottlieb in a sermon-dialogue on the intersection of Jewish and therapeutic wisdom on issues of deep concern for us today: how to stay in relationship with people whose ideas break your heart, confirmation bias and how minds are changed (can they be?), how to overcome psychic numbing and stay centered and empathic, even when we’re hurting, how to hold hope and ...
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If the Soul of the Jewish People is to be Redeemed - Rabbi Sharon Brous | Rosh Hashanah Day 1 5786

September 24, 2025 • 40 mins
We are facing a spiritual catastrophe. In the small space between prophecy and distinct possibility, we must forge a new path.
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This is Not an Interruption - Rabbi Hannah Jensen | Erev Rosh Hashanah Sermon

September 24, 2025 • 19 mins
We're living in a world of constant distraction and alerts and noise, and we're exhausted. But we also don't know how to get out of this internally and externally constructed trap. What can these holidays help us learn about the necessity of stillness and silence in order to go back out into the world? How can they help us rediscover our connection with ourselves and with each other?
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Countering Antisemitism & Protecting Democracy - Rabbi Sharon Brous & Amy Spitalnick in conversation

September 14, 2025 • 32 mins
The Jewish community is being offered a false choice between countering antisemitism and protecting democracy and civil rights. But there is no inclusive democracy without Jewish safety -- and no Jewish safety without inclusive democracy. Amy Spitalnick, CEO of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs (JCPA) and a nationally recognized leader on countering antisemitism and extremism and protecting democracy -- who previously led t...
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The Unreal and the Real - Rabbi Deborah Silver

September 7, 2025 • 16 mins
As we move closer to the High Holydays, what do Ursula Le Guin, a provocative Midrash and the opening word of our Torah portion have to teach us about the demanding but essenntial work of teshuvah?
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A Tale of Two Torahs - Rabbi Hannah Jensen

September 1, 2025 • 15 mins
In this week's parsha we learn that the king had to write a Torah for himself. Or was it two - a Torah that accompanies him throughout his life and one that remains in a treasury locked away? From this we can learn a lot about our public and private selves and about the difference between the actual and the ideal. What lessons might accompany us as we enter this holiday season and throughout our lives?
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Preparing, and Unprepared - Rabbinic Intern Jacob Schatz

August 24, 2025 • 16 mins
Both the Jewish calendar and the Torah come to a close leaving our people in a state of active preparation. But do we ever feel truly ready?
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Show the World What a Jew Looks Like - Rabbi Sharon Brous

August 18, 2025 • 16 mins
An earnest message to my child as she makes her own way in a broken, angry, anguished world, and a quiet plea to us all to open our hearts with love. 
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Break the Ax - Rabbi Morris Panitz

August 10, 2025 • 18 mins
At first glance, Tu B’av, the Festival of Love, seems to be the Jewish equivalent of Valentine’s Day.  But, a deeper look at the strange origins of this holiday reveals the transformative possibilities of this day.  It all begins with an ax. 
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For Those Who Cannot Rise - Rabbi Deborah Silver

August 3, 2025 • 16 mins
Tisha B'Av is the day we devote to contemplating destruction and ruin.  How should we observe it, this year, when we are already carrying so much grief?  And how can our tradition, and the story of one London rabbinical student, spur us to action?
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Lonely Sits the City - Rabbi Hannah Jensen

July 27, 2025 • 18 mins
Right now we are in the period of the most concentrated grief in the Jewish calendar leading up to Tisha b'Av next week. This year, in Los Angeles, we are in an extended period of the same. From the fires through the ICE raids beginning last month, we have gotten no reprieve. What insight does our parsha lend us about how to live in this valley of grief and also let our grief be a catalyst for action?
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The Best Seat in Hell - Rabbi Morris Panitz

July 20, 2025 • 20 mins
Buried in a list of names is the mysterious fact that the sons of the mutinous leader Korah did not die. What follows is the bizarre journey of the sons of Korah to a ledge in Hell, where their song calls out to us, even today.
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Reflections from a Bomb Shelter - Rabbi Morris Panitz

July 13, 2025 • 15 mins
Sharing a personal, first-hand account of my time in Israel during the war with Iran.
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The Folly of Those Dark Fantasies - Rabbi Sharon Brous

June 29, 2025 • 32 mins
Trauma, history, fear—all of these lead us down a path that is as futile as it is dangerous. At the end of one terrible war and in the midst of another, we can do better. We must grow in our ability to imagine one other.
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