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To Save Our Democracy, We Must Tell a Better Story – Rabbi Sharon Brous | Yom Kippur 5785
There is a dominant story in America today—a story of isolation, alienation, and narrow-minded extremism, fueled by a deeply unsettling convergence of right- and left-wing antisemitism.
This story—propagated by a would-be authoritarian—plays on our worst instincts: the smallness, the fear, the ever-present sense of scarcity. And it threatens to do untold damage.
We must write something new.
Have Faith in Grief – Rabbi Morris Panitz | Kol Nidre 5785
The only way forward is one broken heart next to another, crying together, awakening to the reality that grief is our common bond.
On Joy – Alex Edelman & Rabbi Sharon Brous | Rosh Hashanah II 5785
The Torah of Joy, and the Power, Promise, and Necessity of Laughter in Dark Times. | Rosh Hashanah II 5785
A Hope Born From the Depths of Sorrow – Rabbi Sharon Brous | Rosh Hashanah I 5785
Hope doesn’t die, and despair is a privilege we cannot afford. | Rosh Hashanah I 5785
There’s Something about Going Back – Rabbi Hannah Jensen | Erev Rosh Hashanah 5785
What can returning to a place surface for us? And what does our tradition show us can come from that journey? | Erev Rosh Hashanah 5785
This is the Moral Earthquake
How must we respond to the danger posed by Israel’s extreme, ultranationalist government?
Loneliness, Community, & Why We Need One Another: Surgeon General Vivek Murthy & Rabbi Sharon Brous
U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy & Rabbi Sharon Brous in conversation.
Repair and Reparation for America: the Spiritual Work of Building the Beloved Community
Pastor Eddie Anderson, Reverend Zachary Hoover, and Rabbi Sharon Brous in conversation on Rosh Hashanah day 2 5784.
What Matters Most — Rosh Hashanah I, 5784
Some reflections on ending well, and what we pray will never end, offered on my father’s shloshim—the end of the most intense period of mourning.
More Perfect than Before
Erev Rosh Hashanah Sermon. Engaging fully in the introspection of this High Holiday season can land us deep in shame and unable to move. But there is another way: be honest about our shortcomings, witness them and embrace them, and then transform them into something else entirely.
Ban The Bible — 5783/2022
Yom Kippur 5783/2022. I spent the summer reading banned books. Here’s what I learned: empathy poses the greatest threat to tyranny. Art is the antidote to numbness. And Torah is the most dangerous book of all.
We Need a Subversive Sequel — Rosh Hoshanah I, 5783
Rosh Hoshanah I, 5783. Our world is crying out for a subversive sequel, a redemption narrative. It’s time to write a new and better, more just and more inclusive version of our story. We must plant seeds for the future now, before it’s too late.
The Earth Speaks — Erev Rosh Hashanah 5783/2022
The Earth’s chorus of voices demands moral engagement, a new approach to our planet in peril.
We Belong to One Another: Living in the Plural
Yom Kippur 5782/2021 Sermon. In this time of us vs them, tribalism and violence, dehumanization and cruelty, we must remember: we belong to each other.