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Don’t Tell Me It’s Hopeless

Minyan Tzedek Green Action Tu b’Shvat Westwood Greenway Tour

SHABBANUKKAH: Kabbalat Shabbat Services + 1st Annual IKAR Hold’em Dreidel Classic

Miracles and Mazels: A Night of Joy and Justice (Cosponsor)

Community Virtual Hanukkah Lighting

Annual Hanne Mintz z”l Thanksgiving Tikkun

Simẖat Torah Celebration + Services

Shemini Atzeret with Yizkor Services

IKARites of Color Sukkot Family Potluck

Conversation with Alana Zeitchik and Rabbi Sharon Brous

Alana Zeitchik in Conversation with Rabbi Sharon Brous

The Age of Rage is Upon Us. We Must Make Love Our Home. – Rabbi Sharon Brous | Yom Kippur 5786

The One Where IKAR Gets a Transformational Gift | Rosh Hashanah 1 5786

V’yetayu | Yom Kippur 5786

Former Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff offers a Prayer for Our Country at IKAR | Yom Kippur 5786

Supervisor Holly Mitchell reads I Dream a World by Langston Hughes | Yom Kippur 5786

Nanci Katz-Ellis and Peter Ellis Yizkor Speech | Yom Kippur 5786

David Nevins Yom Kippur 5786 Pitch

Rooting & Renewal (Co-Sponsored by IKAR, Lay-Led)

Before the Dove, there was a Raven – Rabbi Morris Panitz | Kol Nidre 5786

Brent Blair Kol Nidre 5786 Pitch

1st Night of Hanukkah Virtual Community Candle Lighting

Tashlikh Services (Westside)

Tashlikh Beach Clean up (Westside)

Tashlikh Services (Eastside)

We Don’t Have Forever – Rabbi Sharon Brous & Lori Gottlieb | Rosh Hashanah Day 2 578

If the Soul of the Jewish People is to be Redeemed – Rabbi Sharon Brous | Rosh Hashanah Day 1 5786

Erev Rosh Hashanah

This is Not an Interruption – Rabbi Hannah Jensen | Erev Rosh Hashanah 5786

Break the Ax

Gathering to end Tisha B’Av with IKAR, Temple Beth Am, and B’nai David Judea

IKAR’s Purim Justice Carnival

Home and Hevel

2024 Tashlikh Services (Westside)

2024 Tashlikh Services (Eastside)

2024 Tashlikh Beach Clean up (Westside)

A Hope Born From the Depths of Sorrow – Rabbi Sharon Brous | Rosh Hashanah I 5785

There’s Something about Going Back – Rabbi Hannah Jensen | Erev Rosh Hashanah 5785

Los Angeles Jewish Community Selihot Ceremony and Visit to the NOVA Exhibition

IKAR’s Kids Purim Festival

IKAR’s Purim Party: We Love Purim

IKAR’s Kids Purim Festival

Thanksgiving Tikkun

Shavuot Services Day 2 with Yizkor

Shavuot Services Day 1

Shavuot Tikkun Learning Session – Hevruta: “Through the Eyes of my Beloved.” – Rabbi Sharon Brous

IKAR Reflects — Yom HaShoah 2024

Jews of Color Sukkot Family Potluck (Lay-Led)

A Righteous Protest Calls for Collective Liberation

Training Our Hearts in Spaciousness

Open Doors, Open Hearts

Signs of Spring

Clearing Away the Ashes

The IKAR (Essence) of the Haggadah

This Pesah: You Love Something? Fight For It

On Purim, Seize the Day

The Thanksgivukkah Mashup

The Good, The Bad & The Unsettling – on the “New American Haggadah”

The Prophets Shudder

Cliff Hanger