We Are Guardians of the Seeds of a Better World
Finding North
Don’t Eat the Tainted Grain, redux
We Cannot Go Numb in this Darkness
So Much is Unknown. Do What You Know.
Rebellion to Tyrants is Obedience to God
Preparing for Festivals and Funerals
Reflections on HOME, From Amidst the Fire
The Names We Carry
Treachery or Truth?
The Mouth of the Well
We Cannot Escape One Another
Transforming Elijah
From Blame and Shame to Cherished Belonging
Home and Hevel
To Save Our Democracy, We Must Tell a Better Story – Rabbi Sharon Brous | Yom Kippur 5785
Have Faith in Grief – Rabbi Morris Panitz | Kol Nidre 5785
On Joy – Alex Edelman & Rabbi Sharon Brous | Rosh Hashanah II 5785
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
Asking for More
Circling the Season
Bound and Unbound
May Their Memories Be a Revolution
This Moment of Angels
The Shining Thread – Rabbi Deborah Silver
This Moment of Angels
When You Get a Second Chance — Take It
What We Learn From The Rain
Learning to Let Go
Let Us Be the Light Force
I Am Not Your Pawn
Dreams and Visions, From Within the Nightmare
Why do I keep doing this? How our patterns have purpose
Let’s Get to Work
Don’t Curse Tomorrow with the Despair of Today
Love the Stranger
A Prayer for Peace
Our Brothers’ Keepers
Lest the Zealots Lead Us Again to Catastrophe
Counting the Days; the Days that Have Counted
In sorrow and solidarity
The Barriers We Construct
A Righteous Protest Calls for Collective Liberation
Training Our Hearts in Spaciousness
Open Doors, Open Hearts
Signs of Spring
Clearing Away the Ashes
Generative Uncertainty
The Last Bulwark Against Authoritarianism
Beyond the Limits
I Care About Our Safety. And I Care About Our Soul.
Dreams Don’t Die
Gifts of the Flood
“The Red String”
– Rabbi Ronit Tsadok
– Rabbi Ronit Tsadok
“Can We Talk About Israel?: A Guide for the Curious, Confused, and Conflicted” A Conversation with author and IKARite Daniel Sokatch + Rabbi Sharon Brous
“I am a private person.”
“Living on Purpose: Finding Meaning in the Upheaval”
“We Belong to Each Other – A Jewish Framework for a Just Society.” – Rabbi Sharon Brous, Boston University’s 2021 Elie Wiesel Memorial Lecture Series
Loneliness, Community, & Why We Need One Another: Surgeon General Vivek Murthy & Rabbi Sharon Brous
This is the Moral Earthquake
2min 53sec of Silence that Scream: #BlackLivesMatter
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A Blessed Wasteland
A Brief History of Parsha Study
A Call to Abolition
A Different Spirit
A Holy Justice, and a Just Holiness
A Holy Scavenger Hunt
A Land For All
A New America
A Simple Thing
A Struggle for the Soul of Judaism
A Technologically Reflective People
A Time to Dance: Simchat Torah, The Last Happy Memory!
A Time to Heal? Not So Fast.
A Time to Mask and a Time to Unmask
In Search of You — Kol Nidre Sermon
A Year of Grief
Aaron’s Rod
After the Crash
After the Fallow
After Tragedy, Naming Names
Against the Dying of the Light
Alexa Junge Yom Kippur Story
Alexander the Great Learns Life Lessons from African Women Warriors
Alive
All Access Torah
All Life is Sacred
All We Own We Owe
America is Becoming
Repair and Reparation for America: the Spiritual Work of Building the Beloved Community
Anti-Semitism: The Bug in the Software of the West
Antisemitism Anywhere is a Threat to Jews Everywhere
Awakening the Scream
What Matters Most — Rosh Hashanah I, 5784
More Perfect than Before
Be a Dr. King Kind of Jew. And American.
Because Hopelessness is the Enemy of Justice
Becoming Free: The (Three or Four or Five) Phases of Redemption
Being the Light
Believe: Healing in the #MeToo Era
Between the Ideal and the Real
Black Power, Jewish Politics: Book Talk with Marc Dollinger & Ilana Kaufman
Blessing on Blessings on Blessings
Blessings and Accountability: A LGBTQ+ Pride Reflection
Blind Spots
Born at the Right Time
Bound Up in the Bundle of Life
Ban The Bible — 5783/2022
Brown M&Ms
We Need a Subversive Sequel — Rosh Hoshanah I, 5783
Bullying, Repentance, and the Passing of Years
BURNING DOWN THE HOUSE: Why We Brought Our 14 Year Old to Hevron
Butterflies, Judean Dates, and Waiting to Emerge: Using the Holy Days to Transform for the Good
By The Hand of a Woman: Judith and the Miracles of Hanukkah
Called to Serve
Can’t You See? The Whole Community Is Holy #PRIDEShabbat- Rabbi Sharon Brous
Careful Now, the Children are Watching
Carrying Each Other’s Prayers
Chautauqua Institution – A Tale of Two Stories (2)
Chautauqua Institution – Holy Hutzpah: Our Inheritance (6)
Chautauqua Institution – I Need you to Breathe (8)
Chautauqua Institution – Intro (1)
Chautauqua Institution – Reclaiming Religion (4)
Chautauqua Institution – Royal Pains, Internal Outsider (7)
Chautauqua Institution – Vespers (3)
The Earth Speaks — Erev Rosh Hashanah 5783/2022
Confronting the Moral Stain
Counting Our Days, Making Our Days Count
Covid Torah
Creativity Loves Constraints
Crossing the Rubicon
We Belong to One Another: Living in the Plural
Dancing With Torah
Daughters of the Revelation
DAWN – Rabbi Sharon Brous, Bishop Gene Robinson & Lisa Sharon Harper
DAWN: Stealing Hearts and Minds: Tales of Deception with Rabbi Rachel Nussbaum & Rabbi Ronit Tsadok
DAWN: The End of Desire: The Tenth and Most Difficult Commandment with Rabbi David Kasher & Rabbi David Ingber
DAWN: The Most Sacred of Times: Sabbath in the Crossroads of Corona with Rabbi Sharon Brous & Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie
Deciding Who We’ll Be
Dismantling Shame
Distressed About the World? Read More Fiction.
Do Good People Need Yom Kippur?
Do Not Become a Hideous Beast
Don’t Just Be A Voter. Fight to Ensure the Right to Vote.
Don’t Just Look Out For Your Own Ass
Don’t Let Antisemitism Poison the Movement
Don’t Let the Woke Mob Stir You From Your Fake Slumber
Don’t Look Away From Me
Don’t Turn Away
Don’t Look Away
Doubling Down on Black Lives and America’s Teetering Soul
Doubling Our Love
Dream Big
Dreaming Big
Drive a Spoke In The Wheel of Injustice
The Angels Among Us
Edina Lekovic Offers a Blessing
Eicha!
Elisha Ben Abuya: Judaism’s Greatest Heretic!
Encountering Counter-Possibilities
Searching for Faith
Enshea Daniel
Even Now, Reach Out Your Hand
Even When You’re Far Away, I’m Right Here
Every Letter, Every Soul
Every One, An Image of the Holy One
Everything is Broken. We Must Write a New Story
The Still, Small Voice
Fasting before Feasting
Featured Speakers – Antisemitism, White Supremacy and White Nationalism: Charting a Path Forward
Fellow Creatures—Can We Not See One Another?
Few and Terrible: The Life of Our Father
From Deluge to Dove
First We Must Weep
For the America Yet to Be
Fostering Possibility
Four Ways to Listen
Freed or Free.
From Blame to Accountability
From Blame to Accountability
The Path To Redemption: A Conversation with Bryan Stevenson & Rabbi Sharon Brous
From the Absence, A New Presence
From the Stillness, a Moral Imagining
Gaza, Jerusalem and the Split Jewish Psyche
Genocide and the Art of the Coup
Get Purim-Ready
Getting to the Heart of Environmental Disaster
Gidi
Go Out, Then Come Back
Good Egyptians
Good Religion/Bad Religion
Got Any Stories to Tell?
Grief is Love
Guest Sermon by Rabbi Brad Artson
Sometimes Love IS a Call to Action
Haftarah Service Introduction: Hanah’s Prayer
Haftarah Service Introduction: Jeremiah’s Letter to Israel
Hag Pride Sameach
Hanukkah
Hanukkah 5781, Night 2
Hanukkah 5781, Night 3
Hanukkah 5781, Night 5
Hanukkah 5781, Night 6
Hanukkah 5781, Night 8
Hanukkah in May
Hanukkah Night 2: Pirsumei Nisa – Hanukkah Kavannot 2022/5783
Hanukkah Night 3: Hanukkah Means Home – Hanukkah Kavannot 2022/5783
Hanukkah Night 4: The Last People in the Shuk – Hanukkah Kavannot 2022/5783
Hanukkah Night 5: Shine Your Own Light – Hanukkah Kavanot 2022/5783
Hanukkah Night 6: Which Candle Do We Light First? – Hanukkah Kavanot 2022/5783
Hanukkah Night 7: Look For The Miracles – Hanukkah Kavanot 2022/5783
Hanukkah Night 8: Adding Light Displaces The Darkness – Hanukkah Kavanot 2022/5783
Harmony and Wholeness
Heartache and Hard Questions
Heschel/King Forum Keynote Address
High Holiday Sermons: 2020/5781
On Being Alone
A World is Dying, A World Is Being Born
Holiness / Holy Justice
Holy Incivility
Holy Intolerance
How Do I Know?
How Do We Do Teshuvah?
How Far Must I Go?
I Am My Beloved
I Am the Humblest Man on Earth
I Go To Funerals
The Splash Zone
I Really Wanna Know: Who Are You?
I Reject the Premise of the Question
I Want to See You. And I Want You to See Me.
I Will Not Let You Go Until You Bless Me
I Will Not Turn Away
I’ll Meet You There
If I Forget Thee
If We Want To, We Can
IKAR FAMILY STYLE – EP 1: A Hanukkah Scavenger Hunt
Impatiently Patient
In Quarantine with Steve Bodow: Sharon Brous Didn’t Want To Be A Rabbi
May her memory be a blessing
Family Ties
Invocation at Mayor Eric Garcetti’s Inauguration
Islamophobia at L.A. City Hall remarks
Israel, Palestine & the American Jewish Community—Getting to the Heart of the Matter: A Conversation with Peter Beinart and R’ Sharon Brous
It Bends Toward Justice
It Could Never Happen Here (could it?)
It’s a Hard World, But a Wonderful World Too
It’s a Small World After All
It’s the Little Things that Matter. And the Big Things. It All Matters.
It’s Time to Defortify Our Hearts
It’s Time To Treat the Disease
It’s Not Enough To Be Decent
Jacob’s Heart, Jacob’s Legacy
January 6th, One Year Later: Rep. Adam Schiff & Rabbi Sharon Brous Discuss the Democracy Crisis
Jesse Zilberstein
Joseph, Part II: The Crying Man
Joseph, Part III: The Theologian of Genesis
Joseph, The Real Hero of Hanukkah?
Judaism in the Time of Cholera
Just a Regular Kid
Just Admit It
Justice is the Air We Breathe
Keep Your Head Up
Keeping Open Our Doors and Our Hearts
Keeping the Lamp Lit
Life Eternal: Say My Name
Know Your Ballot Panel Discussion
Know Your Reps with CA State Senator Ben Allen
Know Your Reps with CA State Senator Holly Mitchell
Know Your Reps with Congressman Adam Schiff
Know Your Reps with Congressman Ted Lieu
Know Your Reps with Congresswoman Karen Bass
Know Your Reps with Los Angeles City Council Member David Ryu
Know Your Reps: Congressman Ted Lieu in Conversation with Rabbi Sharon Brous
LA District Attorney George Gascón at IKAR’s Shabbat Services
Laugh a Little
Lean On Me
Learning with R’Chaim Seidler-Feller
Leaving Egypt in a Warming World
Lessons Learned from my Cancer
Let Me Be
Let’s Talk About Truth
The Climate Crisis is Here: What We Do Matters
Life Eternal
Kindness: An Ethic. A Theology. An Act of Resistance
Like a Ripple
Living in a Lonely World
Rabbi David Kasher Yom Kippur Intro to Haftarah
Love Anyway: With Faith in Outcomes Unknown
Love in the Time of Loss
Rabbi David Kasher Yom Kippur Intro to Silent Amidah
Lunch & Learn: “How We Survived” – Honoring Holocaust Survivors in our Community
Lunch & Learn: Yuval Sharon and Co-Director of Sweet Land, Cannupa Hanska Luger, in conversation with Rabbi Brous
Making Our Way: Trusting a Path That is Both Short and Long
Making Peace with Anxiety
Making Things Right
MARKING TIME
Dan Messinger Yom Kippur Pirate
Mayor Eric Garcetti – Sings Prayer for our Country
Meaning in the Madness
Midwives For a New World
Miracle of Miracles: I Need You To See Me
#WETOO: DISCOMPOSING OUR CULTURE OF TOXIC MASCULINITY
MOON PEOPLE: FINDING HOPE IN THE DARK OF NIGHT
MORALLY BOUND TO DISOBEY
MORALLY BOUND TO DISOBEY
Rabbi Keilah Lebell Kol Nidre Introduction
Moses Has Had Enough
Moses, Isaiah, and Martin
Moses’ Mantra
Multi-faith Panel on Faith and Justice with Rev. Zachary Hoover, Rev. Najuma Smith-Pollard, Aziza Hasan and R’ Brous
No Victory Until All Have Crossed the Sea
None of Your Business
Not Because We Have Everything. Because We Have Something.
Not By Matzah Alone
Not For the Birds
Rabbi Ronit Tsadok Viduy Introduction
On Mourning and Lag b’Omer
On Rabbinic Authority
One Step at a Time
Open Door Policy
Open Door Policy
The Cries of the Shofar
Our Nation is in Crisis. There Are Many Good Reasons to Do Nothing About It.
Our Nation Needs to Make Teshuvah to Its Children
Our True Home
Our Vulnerability is Our Greatest Strength
Out of Our Comfort Zones: Etgar Keret in conversation with Rabbi Sharon Brous (The Charles Bronfman Prize Speaker Series)
Outside of the Whale
Parashat Vaera
ParshaNut Book Release!
Passover in a Time of Pandemic
Pastor Eddie Anderson Offers a Blessing
People of Los Angeles: We Are Each Others’ Keepers
Perverters of Justice and Pluralized Karma
Perverters of Justice and Pluralized Karma
Pharaoh’s Stubbornness, and Our Own
Plant One Tiny Seed
Pod Drash podcast, “Moving Along, Muckily” featuring Rabbi Brous
Poor People’s Campaign Remarks
Building a New America
Preserving Doubt
President Barack Obama’s second Inauguration blessing
Productive Anger
Prophetic Grief and Public Protest
Rabbi Brous at ADL’s Never Is Now Panel, Antisemitism in Progressive Spaces: How it Looks; How to Address It
Rabbi Brous in conversation with Dr. David Agus
Rabbi Brous in conversation with Dr. Jessica Beckerman and Dr. Ari Johnson of Muso Health
Rabbi Brous Speaking at the DNC
Rabbi Brous Speaks at At a Multi-Faith Gathering 4 Black Lives
Rabbi Brous speaks on MAZON’s panel, How Did We Get Here? Hunger 2020
Rabbi Brous speaks on Pomona College’s panel, Presidential Dialogues: Cultivating Empathy in a Time of Division
Rabbi Brous’ remarks at the Women’s March on Washington
The Roar
Loving Ourselves to Death: The Perils of Denialism
Rabbi Eleazar ben Horkanos Grows Up!
I Need You to Breathe
Our Country Was Built on a Stolen Beam: The Call for a National Reckoning
Rabbi Sharon Brous blesses President Biden and VP Harris in the National Inaugural Prayer Service
Rabbi Sharon Brous on KPCC Take Two
Rebecca, Mother of Doubt
Reclaiming Dignity
Reclaiming Our Time
The Bug in the Software of the West
Redemption is Here… Now!!!
Redemptive Art
Remarks after the New Zealand mosque attacks
Remember the Remembering
Remembering Who We Are
Renewing Our Vows
Reclaiming Our Time
Restored with Love: Lessons from Megilat Rut
Returning What Is Lost
Reverend Kelvin Sauls Offers a Blessing
Reverend Michael-Ray Mathews at IKAR
Reverend Zachary Hoover Offers a Blessing
Righteous Seeing
Roof Torah
Rooted: The Torah of Isaac
Salam al-Maryati Offers a Blessing
Try a Little Tenderness
Seeds of Hope and Defiance
Setting Aside Time
Sharon Hall Yom Kippur Yizkor Story
She Is On Her Way
Silent No More
Singing in the Midst of the Sea: Narrative Pluralism and The Redemptive Power of Song
Smashing down the Barrels
Something That is Not Here
Sometimes Aaron Felt Worthless Too
In the Valley of the Shadow of Death
Song of Songs
Speaking Truth to Power
Stepping Up
Sukkot and the Garden of Eden
Summoning Strength
Sweat the Small Stuff
Symbolic Mapping
Tears of Hope
Tell Me, Who Are You?
Tell the Story
The Agent of Destruction
High Holy Days Sermons
Awakenings
The Beloved Community – Rabbi Sharon Brous, Rev. Michael-Ray Mathews & Michael Waldman (Part 1)
The Beloved Community – Rabbi Sharon Brous, Rev. Michael-Ray Mathews & Michael Waldman (Part 2)
The Binding and the Bind
The Blessing of Re-Rooting
The Blind Leading
The Book of Complaints
America Needs to Find its Way Again
What’s Your Story?
The Complicated Wisdom of Jewish Time
Holding On: A Plea to Stay in the Conversation
The Danger of Distancing and Why We Must Stay Proximate
The Danger of History Repeating
The Danger of Waving a Flag
The Divine Frequency
Letting Go: Permission to Grieve, and Live Again
The Essence of Hanukkah: Creating Light or Kindling Fire?
The Ethics of Tzimtzum
The Eye of the Beholder
The Eyes Are the Spies of the Body
The Faith of My Father
The Gift of Self-Compassion
The Giving Tree
The Great Divide
The Great Stopping
The Heart of George Floyd (z”l) Memorial Square
The Holiness Code.
The Hour Has Come for Serious Thought
The Illness, The Diagnosis, The Remedy
The Inflection Point
The Inner Whisper
The Lesson of the Lines
The Light That Will Shine
The Limitations of Vision
The Limits of Suffering
The Long View
The Love of Law
The Miracles Within
The Murder of a Man or a Movement?
The Mystery of Jacob’s Jar
The Narrative Fallacies Fueling Antisemitism
The Painful Compromise
The Particular Fear of Strangers
The Path to Healing
Wide Awake: A Spiritual Response to the Collapse of Compassion
The Perils of Americanism
The Poetry of Torah
The Prayer Problem
The Prep it Takes to Become Free
The Prep it Takes to Become Free
#LoveWins
The Question of Jewish Identity
The Real Sin of Sodom
Fire on the Mountain
The Root of Change
The Season of Our Freedom: What Does it Mean to Be Free?
The Seeds We’ve Sown
The Shabbat We Need
The Spirit of Sodom Lives: Reflections From the Border
The Spirit of This Nation is Rising Kfar Saba
The Spiritual Life of the Body
What Are You Waiting For?
Edgers
The Stirring Possibilities of Generative Constraint
The Tears of Zion
The Temptation of Power & The Restorative Healing of the Sabbatical Year
The Terrible Cost of Zero Sum Thinking
The Thin Line
The Torah of Infection
The Transformative Power of Shared Grief
The Unsung Heroines of Our Liberation Story
The Vitriol Before the Vision
The War Before the War
The Week When it Happens
The Whole Heart of Vulnerability
The Wilderness
There Were Twelve Flags of Israel
There’s Room on My Island
Things Fall Apart
Think Small
This Confluence of Crises Will Birth Our Future
This Generation Calls Us to Great Things
This is the Decree of the Torah
Prayer: The Ultimate Equalizer
This is the Natural Order: Grace, Gratitude, Generosity
This Long, Winding Road
This One’s for All The Enablers Out There
This. Is. Not. Normal.
Thou and Thou
Time for a Rewrite
Tips for the Road
To Soften the Darkness
To Uproot Injustice
Torah Service Introduction: Isaac, The Missing Years
Torah Service Introduction: Too Late
Torah, A Love Story
Tough Love
Toward Collective Liberation
True Kindness and the Soul
True Seeing
Trust Not Your Enemy’s Kiss
Breaking Script
Try to Make a Dent in the Darkness
Two Kinds of Fear
Two Visions of Progressive Judaism
Vayishlah: Embracing Our Only-Ones
Visions of Peace
Walk Like an Israelite
We Are Hebrews. We Must Act Like It.
We Are Moon People. Hope is Our Superpower
We Have a Togetherness Problem
We Have No Other Choice
Guns, Gays and God: The Politics of Spiritual Connectedness
We Venerate Righteous Gentiles. Let Us Be Righteous Jews.
We Were Strangers, Too
We Who Stand in the Breach
We’re Not Nearly Done
We’ll Find Water
We’ve Lost So Much. Let’s Not Lose Our Damn Minds
What About Us?
What Are We Holding On To? Of What Must We Let Go? On Holocaust Remembrance, the Gaza Sniper, and a Growing Culture of Intolerance
The Prophets Shudder
What Changes?
What Do I Stand For?
What Does it Take to Awaken the Conscience? [Abbreviated drash]
What Gets You Up in the Morning?
What If It Depends On You?
What It Takes to Discover Our True Selves
Cliff Hanger
What Plagues Us, What Liberates Us?
What Story Will You Tell?
What To Do With The Tainted Money
What We Learn From This Affliction
What We Own
What You Call Politics, We Call Torah
What’s Love Got To Do With It?
What’s Your Half Shekel?
Moral Conundrum Ahead
What’s a liberal Jew obligated to do?
What’s in a Name? Everything.
When Doves Sigh
When God Calls Twice
When Good is Not Good Enough
When I Close My Eyes, I See Fire
When We Emerge
When You’re So Right You’re Wrong
White House Passover Celebration Emceed by Rabbi Sharon Brous
Who We’ll Be When We Emerge
Who’s Missing From Your Table? Racism In America 2020
Whose Redemption? Lifting As We Climb
Why Is Everyone So Angry These Days?
Enough
Winter Solstice
Women Wage Peace
Women’s March on Washington Speech
Worlds With Words
Would that All Were Prophets!
Writing our Reopening Story
Yes, But Are You DECENT?
Yes, Let’s Talk About Holocaust Denial
Yom HaShoah – A Survivor’s Story
Yom HaShoah Speaker
You [Don’t] Really Count
You Are How You Fight
You Are What You Do
You Call That Religious?
You Call Yourself Religious?
You Can’t Hide
You Don’t Have to Do This Alone
You Want to Take the Advantage. Don’t.
Your [COVID] Story Matters
Your Brother’s Blood is Crying: Biblical Origins of our Divided Society
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