IKAR Podcasts

IKAR Podcasts

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

Episodes

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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Jeremy Ben-Ami (J Street Pres.) and Rabbi Sharon Brous in Conversation

June 22, 2025 • 71 mins
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Sight and Vision - Rabbi Deborah Silver

June 22, 2025 • 16 mins
The ten spies who enter Canaan create 40 years of delay in the Israelites’ journey to the Promised Land. What did they do wrong?  And how can we avoid making the same mistake they did as we witness the brutality all around us?
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Even Now, We Dream - Rabbi Sharon Brous

June 15, 2025 • 18 mins
Amid ICE raids and ballistic missiles, here’s what I saw from the stage at a multifaith vigil in downtown Los Angeles, what I heard from my Iranian friend who yearns for home, and why I believe our most audacious dreams must be born in the darkest times
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May You Be Blessed and Safe - Rabbi Hannah Jensen

June 8, 2025 • 20 mins
This Pride Shabbat, we need to reckon with the current landscape for our trans siblings. We need to understand that trans people are being used as a wedge to divide Americans, and as a test case for increasing authoritarianism. What does our parsha teach us about the dangers of callousness, and what brighter, more beautiful future can we imagine?
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What I Need You To Hear - Rabbi Morris Panitz

June 1, 2025 • 17 mins
When trauma is acknowledged, not denied, not justified, not dismissed through comparison, only then can something new and hopeful be imagined.     Read the sermon here.
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Four Things I Know - Rabbi Sharon Brous

May 25, 2025 • 22 mins
After the antisemitic murder of two young beloveds on a DC street, there are four things I know. Parashat Behar-Behukotai 5785
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It’s Precisely Now that We Dream Big - Rabbi Sharon Brous

May 18, 2025 • 24 mins
A strange, mysterious half-story told in the Torah hints at a failure of leadership and a failure of law, and calls us to be brave and bold, especially when our dreams seem furthest from reality.
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A Letter to the Pope - Rabbi Sharon Brous

May 11, 2025 • 17 mins
A blessing for strength in spirit and body for a new Pope in a time when spiritual and moral leadership matters more profoundly than ever.
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“What Faith Means to Me” - Rabbi Brous in conversation at the Milken Institute Global Conference 2025

May 9, 2025 • 65 mins
In a world roiled by seemingly unprecedented division and doubt, the longing for spiritual meaning and for a life rooted in faith appears to be growing ever stronger. In this session, speakers share their perspectives and experiences of faith, and the role faith and faith-driven communities can and should play in calming stormy seas. This is an archive of a live event from 5/7/2025 that took place as part of Milken Institute's...
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Rabbi Brous at the Milken Institute Global Conference 2025 - The Amen Effect Author Talk

May 8, 2025 • 47 mins
To thine own self be true: Sharon Brous has let this advice illuminate her path to becoming a rabbi. She was raised with a strong social, but not religious, Jewish identity. The more she studied and admired the humanity in the sages’ writings, the more Brous felt her voice was silenced simply because she is a woman. Today, as an ordained rabbi, Brous’s decades of hands-on pastoral care in Los Angeles has cleared “a path to be...
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Don’t Tell Me There’s Nothing We Can Do About It - Rabbi Sharon Brous

May 4, 2025 • 21 mins
…Because there is a space between stimulus and response. What we do in that space is our choice. So please: tell me you’re scared. I’m scared too. Tell me times are tough. Tell me we’re facing a narrowing landscape of possibilities. But please do not tell me there’s nothing we can do. There’s always a choice to make. Parashat Tazria-Metzora 5785—May 3, 2025
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BBE: Psychedelic Imagery in the Torah

April 28, 2025 • 66 mins
On today’s episode of Best Book Ever, Rabbi David Kasher is joined by Madison Margolin to talk about psychedelic experiences in the Torah. Madison is the author of Exile & Ecstasy: Growing Up with Ram Dass and Coming of Age in the Jewish Psychedelic Underground. She’s also Co-founder of the Jewish Psychedelic Summit and DoubleBlind, a print magazine and digital media startup covering psychedelics and where they intersect with menta...
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