IKAR Podcasts
Sermons, talks, classes, and more from IKAR Rabbis and the IKAR community.
Episodes
How ancient Biblical agricultural laws call us to imagine a radically inclusive social, political, and economic reality.
Behar Behukotai 5786 – May 9, 2026
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May 7, 2026 • 60 mins
Source sheet: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1u9DAtF5hBMeh46i6JUiXeLmT4TRpaqR4
This is a recording of the final class of the For the Love of Learning series with Rabbi Sharon Brous and Morris Panitz.
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May 3, 2026 • 18 mins
Between Pesach and Shavuot, we count the days of the Omer. What does this practice offer us about being present, making the most of the time we have, and cultivating faith in what is to come?
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April 30, 2026 • 61 mins
On Monday May 4, join Hadar West and Rising Song's R. Deborah Sacks Mintz for a festive Hilula - uplifting gathering of song and story. https://hadar.org/learn/classes-events/hadar-west-lag-baomer-rising-song
This is a recording of Rabbi David Kasher's weekly parsha study class, co-sponsored by Hadar and IKAR.
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April 28, 2026 • 75 mins
Source sheet: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KZ75mWBCUQnUoqY7lwS7yv84Kz6rix_Sb4SVnI1T_rg/edit?tab=t.0
This is a recording of Rabbi Sharon Brous's session of For the Love of
Learning class. Every Tuesday morning, a new story from the Talmud.
Taught by your rabbis in a monthly rotation, we’ll dig into the strange
and compelling world of the Talmud, exploring the ways ancient dilemmas
speak to modern questions. Join us in-...
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April 26, 2026 • 12 mins
A lone figure escorts the scapegoat into the desert, carrying not just
the sins of a people, but the unbearable weight of human truth. What
unfolds is a raw confrontation with guilt, memory, and the fragile hope
that love can outlast both. An ancient ritual becomes a deeply personal
journey toward compassion, repair, and return.
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This is a recording of Rabbi David Kasher's class The Weekly Parashah from 4.23.2026, co-sponsored by IKAR and Hadar.
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This is a recording of Rabbi David Kasher's class The Weekly Parashah from 4.15.2026, co-sponsored by IKAR and Hadar.
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April 21, 2026 • 64 mins
Source sheet:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LwZjl53yR6HMKUQJy60udqZc_Yvf45-H/view
This is a recording of Rabbi Morris Panitz's session of For the Love of
Learning class. Every Tuesday morning, a new story from the Talmud.
Taught by your rabbis in a monthly rotation, we’ll dig into the strange
and compelling world of the Talmud, exploring the ways ancient dilemmas
speak to modern questions. Join us in-person at the Event Spa...
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Join Rabbi Sharon Brous and Dalia Dassa Kaye as they discuss Dassa
Kaye's new book, Enduring Hostility - The Making of America’s Iran
Policy, "a timely and rigorous analysis of a half-century of American
policymakers' shifting perceptions of Iran, and how they have driven
US-Iran relations." Dalia Dassa Kaye is a Senior Fellow at the UCLA
Burkle Center for International Relations and a former Senior Political
Scientist and Di...
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April 19, 2026 • 15 mins
Are we ready to give sound to the silent beginning at Sinai?
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April 13, 2026 • 67 mins
California State Senator Ben Allen, representing Senate District 24, including Beverly Grove, Fairfax, Mid City West, Santa Monica, and West Hollywood, joined Rabbi Sharon Brous in conversation.
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April 12, 2026 • 24 mins
The death penalty has no place in a just society. And it has no place in a Jewish society.
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April 10, 2026 • 13 mins
An introduction to the Yizkor service
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April 10, 2026 • 25 mins
Source Sheet here: https://ikar.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/The-Song-and-The-Star.pdf
Judaism greets our most powerful experiences of salvation and redemption with song and music. Using the lens of Franz Rosenzweig’s Star of Redemption, we find music not only passively accompanying our experiences of the Divine, but also actively attuning us toward justice, bringing redemption to others and joy to God.
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April 6, 2026 • 16 mins
How do we think about mo’adim, the fixed times in our calendar when
we are asked to show up for a meeting with God? Can we treat these
occasions as moments of sacred recognition?
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April 6, 2026 • 17 mins
We Jews are obsessed with telling stories – as the core of the Passover
Seder and beyond. The obsession to do so is woven into the fabric of
Jewish life and practice. Through interpreting our people’s narrative,
we become the story we tell about ourselves and we partner with God in
completing creation.
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April 5, 2026 • 18 mins
Ezekiel’s prophecy, read on the Shabbat of Passover, challenges us to dream audaciously. You cannot tell a redemption story that leaves some behind. And that includes those amongst our own people who’ve gone terribly astray.
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March 29, 2026 • 14 mins
As we approach Pesah, we often consume ourselves with cleaning our houses, but we neglect any spiritual preparation for the holiday. What would happen if we let the search for chametz in our houses lead to a search for something in ourselves? What might we find?
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March 24, 2026 • 65 mins
Source sheet: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YKuYB4tSLePVfl1YytWeZSShpH2kdw4P/view
Class #16 | March 24, 2026
This is a recording of Rabbi Morris Brous's session of For the Love of
Learning class. Every Tuesday morning, a new story from the Talmud.
Taught by your rabbis in a monthly rotation, we’ll dig into the strange
and compelling world of the Talmud, exploring the ways ancient dilemmas
speak to modern questions. Join us ...
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