Watch, Listen, Learn

The two are members of the Parents Circle – Families Forum, a grassroots organization of Palestinian and Israeli families who have lost immediate family members in the conflict, and who believe that only together can they achieve a sustained peace. Rabbi Brous will join them in dialogue after Shabbat services. Please join us.

Stay for the hilarity from humorist and comic actress Annie Korzen – as seen on Seinfeld, Pen15, Why Women Kill, Thelma – who has spent her career making people laugh. Hear more of the best live comedy performances from this master storyteller! And check out The Book of Annie: Humor, Heart, and Chutzpah from an Accidental Influencer and Annie Korzen: Funny, Jewish & Live! Volume 2.

Join us for “We Are All Hostages,” an important event where we will hear from families of the October 7th hostages leading protests inside of Israel. Learn about their efforts to call on the government to negotiate a deal to end the war and bring their loved ones home. Discover how you can support this critical cause and help make a difference. Visit allhostages.com for more information.

We gather bringing with us a myriad of concerns: personal, social, and national division and conflict, technological change and political uncertainty, the demands of individual leadership challenges, and a sense of isolation and depletion. Amidst these challenges, the urgency to reconnect with our common humanity has never been more critical. Dive into the turbulent histories and present-day challenges that shape our world and find inspiration in leaders who have confronted seemingly insurmountable obstacles. How do we find hope in moments of dark despair? Where does our resiliency come from? How might we transcend the frameworks that keep us entrenched in polarization and paralysis to move toward a brighter future? Each summer, the Resnick Aspen Action Forum offers the opportunity to come together with high-integrity, action-oriented leaders to reflect, refresh, and recommit to confronting some of society’s greatest challenges. About the Aspen Institute: The Aspen Institute is a global nonprofit organization whose purpose is to ignite human potential to build understanding and create new possibilities for a better world. Founded in 1949, the Institute drives change through dialogue, leadership, and action to help solve society’s greatest challenges. It is headquartered in Washington, DC and has a campus in Aspen, Colorado, as well as an international network of partners. For more information, visit www.aspeninstitute.org.

Join Executive Producer, Marshall Goldberg as he talks about his new docuseries, Justice, USA and criminal justice reform.

At a time when polarization around the world has never been greater, SHARON BROUS, author and leading American rabbi, will talk with JEFFREY GOLDBERG, editor in chief of The Atlantic, about the extraordinary challenges posed at every level of society—social, familial, individual—by the most difficult and intractable moral issues. How do we begin to talk honestly and effectively with each other, for example, about Israel and Gaza? How do we talk about politics and the monumental election facing us a few months from now? Freedom of speech? Religion, race, gender? As the founding rabbi of IKAR in Los Angeles, one of the most diverse, fastest growing and influential Jewish communities in the nation, Rabbi Brous has spent the last 20 years trying to foster conversations and thoughtfulness that can see us through these seemingly impossible times.

Join us after Services for a very special discussion with Author Mickey Bergman about his book, In the Shadows: True Stories of High-Stakes Negotiations to Free Americans Captured Abroad.

With Auschwitz Survivor Ella Mandel and Amit, Zeve, and Oren Zilberstein, Jason Neidleman, and Alexia Gyorody, the second, third, and fourth generation of family members who both survived and perished in the Shoah.

A very special discussion with sisters Danielle and Galeet Dardashti from The Nightingale of Iran Podcast

Conversation with Michael Strassfeld. Strassfeld was rabbi of the Society for the Advancement of Judaism, a Manhattan synagogue. Before that he was the rabbi of Congregation Ansche Chesed.

Stay after Kabbalat Shabbat services for dinner and a book discussion with Rabbi Sharon Brous and Elise Loehnen on her book On Our Best Behavior The Seven Deady Sins and The Price Women Pay To Be Good.

Join us on Saturday, March 9 after Shabbat Morning Services for a free community, vegetarian lunch and conversation with Standing Together, a grassroots movement mobilizing Jewish and Palestinian citizens of Israel in pursuit of peace, equality, and social and climate justice.

What does it mean to show up for someone? What does it mean to sit with another person’s pain? And if we are hurting, why can it be so difficult to ask for help? Part of being human is learning how to accompany people through hard times. Yet our culture looks at pain as a sign of imperfection, and vulnerability a sign of weakness. In this conversation, the Surgeon General and Rabbi Brous share in how the opposite is, in fact, true: vulnerability and pain can be extraordinary sources of strength and healing. Drawing from both professional and personal moments, Dr. Murthy and Rabbi Brous delve into why the simple act of showing up for each other — an intrinsic power we all possess — is so powerful and healing. And why it is so needed now, especially in these times when the world can feel despairing and lonely.

IKAR’s Lunch and Learn with Sammy Roth, LA Times Reporter

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Author, lawyer and Slate Senior Editor, Dahlia Lithwick discussed her new book, Lady Justice: Women, the Law, and the Battle to Save America. Brief Book Synopsis: “After the sudden shock of Donald Trump’s victory over Hillary Clinton in 2016, many Americans felt lost and uncertain. It was clear he and his administration were going to pursue a series of retrograde, devastating policies. What could be done? Immediately, women lawyers all around the country, independently of each other, sprang into action, and they had a common goal: they weren’t going to stand by in the face of injustice, while Trump, Mitch McConnell, and the Republican party did everything in their power to remake the judiciary in their own conservative image. Over the next four years, the women worked tirelessly to hold the line against the most chaotic and malign presidency in living memory.”