IKAR – IKAR’s mission is to reanimate Jewish life and develop a spiritual and moral foundation for a just and equitable society.

PRIDE

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Blessings and Accountability: A LGBTQ+ Pride Reflection
R’ Ronit Tsadok – June 3, 2023 — Parashat Nasso
So many LGBTQ+ people have been hurt by religious leadership and institutions. We have the power to offer healing.

LA Pride Parade: Unity in Community!
Sunday, June 11, 10:30am – 2:00pm
IKAR is marching with pride this year in unity with others in the LA Jewish Community. Starting at Sunset and Highland, click here for all of the pertinent information.

Kabbalat Shabbat Services & Pride Shabbat Storytelling w/ Dinner
Friday, June 16, 6:30pm
Daven with us in person at Shalhevet (910 S Fairfax Ave) or on our website, Zoom, and YouTube. Join us over dinner and hear from LGBTQ+ folks and their family members.

Our Stories – Every June, we turn our attention and love to the LGBTQ+ community at IKAR. For many years we have taken the opportunity during PRIDE month to stories from LGBTQ+ folks and their family members. Listen to our stories on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

Resources + Organizations – As we celebrate Pride month and give thanks for the rights and opportunities the queer community has fought for and received, we also recognize the continued threats to the safety and well-being of LGBTQ+ people in our country, especially trans/non-binary/gender expansive people. We encourage you to learn, advocate and donate to ensure that all people in our country are treated with the dignity they deserve.

Blessings and Accountability: A LGBTQ+ Pride Reflection
R’ Ronit Tsadok – June 3, 2023 — Parashat Nasso
So many LGBTQ+ people have been hurt by religious leadership and institutions. We have the power to offer healing.

LA Pride Parade: Unity in Community!
Sunday, June 11, 10:30am – 2:00pm
IKAR is marching with pride this year in unity with others in the LA Jewish Community. Starting at Sunset and Highland, click here for all of the pertinent information.

Kabbalat Shabbat Services & Pride Shabbat Storytelling w/ Dinner
Friday, June 16, 6:30pm
Daven with us in person at Shalhevet (910 S Fairfax Ave) or on our website, Zoom, and YouTube. Join us over dinner and hear from LGBTQ+ folks and their family members.

Our Stories – Every June, we turn our attention and love to the LGBTQ+ community at IKAR. For many years we have taken the opportunity during PRIDE month to stories from LGBTQ+ folks and their family members. Listen to our stories on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

Resources + Organizations – As we celebrate Pride month and give thanks for the rights and opportunities the queer community has fought for and received, we also recognize the continued threats to the safety and well-being of LGBTQ+ people in our country, especially trans/non-binary/gender expansive people. We encourage you to learn, advocate and donate to ensure that all people in our country are treated with the dignity they deserve.

Calendar

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Monday, 6/5 – Friday, 6/9, 8am PT, Virtual Morning Minyan

Thursday, 6/8, 12pm PT, Parsha Study with the Parsha Nut, R’ David Kasher (virtual)

Friday, 6/9, 5pm PT, Boomers / Alta Rockers Cocktail Hour (virtual)

Friday, 6/9, 6pm, Home Hosted Shabbat Dinners

Saturday, 6/10, 9:30am PT, Shabbat Morning Services & Lilah Feuerstein’s Bat Mitzvah

Sunday, 6/11, 10:30am, LA Pride Parade: Unity in Community!

Sunday, 6/11, 2pm, Circle Kumsitz (Singing)

The Amen Effect

Pre-order Rabbi Sharon Brous’s book today!

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The Amen Effect: Ancient Wisdom to Mend Our Broken Hearts and World (Penguin Random House) makes the case that in an era of loneliness, social alienation and ideological extremism, our deepest spiritual work is finding our way to one other—in celebration, sorrow, and solidarity. Relationships of care and curiosity, she argues, are essential to both personal healing and social change. This is how we reawaken our humanity.

Are you joining us in 5784?

Make it official!

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Your presence, involvement, and contributions make a real difference to the IKAR family. As a reminder, all 5783 (2022/23) memberships lapse on June 30, 2023 and early bird membership rates are currently in effect through the end of the month.

Where do your membership contributions go? Good question! Membership contributions represent over 30% of our operating budget, which means that you play a critical role in ensuring that we can continue to offer high-quality programming, services, and events. Shabbat lunches and dinners, author events, film and culture programs and so much more are fueled by the gifts you give, at membership renewal and over the course of the year.

We look forward to working, praying, and celebrating with you in the coming year. If you have any questions, please email membership@ikar.org or call 323-488-8601.

Click here to join or renew!

Your presence, involvement, and contributions make a real difference to the IKAR family. As a reminder, all 5783 (2022/23) memberships lapse on June 30, 2023 and early bird membership rates are currently in effect through the end of the month.

Where do your membership contributions go? Good question! Membership contributions represent over 30% of our operating budget, which means that you play a critical role in ensuring that we can continue to offer high-quality programming, services, and events. Shabbat lunches and dinners, author events, film and culture programs and so much more are fueled by the gifts you give, at membership renewal and over the course of the year.

We look forward to working, praying, and celebrating with you in the coming year. If you have any questions, please email membership@ikar.org or call 323-488-8601.

Shabbat at IKAR

At IKAR, Shabbat is our central organizing principle. Shabbat forms the rhythm of our week, and is the constant reminder that things need not be as they are – in our personal lives and in the world. And it is the reminder that each of us is surrounded by blessings, hidden and revealed, but often we must slow down to recognize and celebrate the abundance. Our services are traditional and experimental, contemplative and ecstatic. They are a fusion of spirit and purpose, old and new, east and west, Yair Dalal and Bono.

Our Mission

Creating a Just Community

IKAR’s mission is to reanimate Jewish life and develop a spiritual and moral foundation for a just and equitable society. Fusing piety and hutzpah, obligation and inspiration, IKAR is a dynamic, multi-generational community that fosters a yearning for personal, purposeful, creative engagement in Jewish life, particularly among young and disaffected Jews. Rooted in Los Angeles and reaching globally, we strive to actively and intentionally celebrate the vibrancy and diversity of the Jewish people.

Support

“The meaning comes not from what we have, but what we share” – Rabbi Sharon Brous

Thank you for supporting our community.

Your generous contribution to IKAR will help sustain and develop our community by providing meaningful ways to engage in Judaism and affect change in the world.

Thank you for enabling us to do this holy work.