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Are you a synagogue or what? Yes and no and kinda. Words like “synagogue” can feel constraining, and we want to think expansively about what Jewish life can be… so we think of ourselves as a spiritual community, and let the experience define itself.


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“Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, falsehoods. The liturgical movement must become a revolutionary movement, seeking to overthrow the forces that continue to destroy the promise, the hope, the vision.” –Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, “On Prayer”


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“To educate means to cultivate the soul.” -Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel


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“Love your neighbor, and love yourself. That is the whole Torah. All the rest is commentary.” –Hillel


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IKAR is fueled by the love, talent, and creative investment of each of our community members. Our membership is an expression of individual commitments and a way for each person to expand their Jewish horizons through learning and spiritual growth.


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Sermons

High Holiday Sermons: 2020/5781


— Ruminate, appreciate, get irate, activate: our rabbis guide us through the spiritual journey of the Holiest of Days.

The Path to Redemption – A Conversation with Bryan Stevenson, with Rabbi Sharon Brous

Sometimes Love IS a Call to Action – Rabbi Sharon Brous

On Being Alone – Rabbi David Kasher

A World is Dying, A World is Being Born – Rabbi Sharon Brous

The Splash Zone – Rabbi Keilah Lebell

May Her Memory Be a Blessing – Brief Remarks by Rabbi Sharon Brous on the Loss of tzadeket Ruth Bader Ginsberg

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