January 2, 2025 - The Globe and Mail
New book from Rabbi Sharon Brous explores the power of showing up for others
“It’s so easy to retreat,” she explained, in an interview with The Globe and Mail in November. “The harder thing is to actually step close to someone who’s suffering like that and say, ‘I see you.’”
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Apr 4, 2024 - Firestarters with Shannon Watts
Rabbi Sharon Brous says community can unlock our humanity
“Take seriously the fact that there’s something in the world that you need to do and then do it now. Don’t wait — we don’t know how long we have.”
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March 14, 2024 — Jewish Women's Archive
JWA Book Talks featuring Rabbi Sharon Brous on The Amen Effect
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February 2, 2024 — The New York Times
How Just Showing Up for Others Helps Us Heal
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February 2, 2024 — Oprah’s Book Club
Oprah’s Book Club
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February 1, 2024 — The Jewish Standard
The Amen Effect
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January 31, 2024 — Los Angeles Times
The week’s bestselling books
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May 1, 2025
The Casden Institute for the Study of the American Role in Jewish Life, IKAR, and Thrive LA co-organized a panel, “The Impact of the Housing Crisis on the Los Angeles Jewish Community: How to Make Los Angeles Affordable Again for Future Generations”
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January 25, 2024 — The Times of Israel
The Amen Effect in Action: Israel Solidarity Missions
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January 25, 2024 — Jewish Journal
Rabbi Sharon Brous on her New Book, Oct. 7 and IKAR’s Future
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January 20, 2024 - Maria Shriver's Sunday Paper
From Her New Book, Rabbi Sharon Brous On the Power of Difficult Conversations to Heal Our Broken Hearts
January 19, 2024 — The New York Times Opinion Guest Essay
Train Yourself to Always Show Up
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January 11, 2024 - Religion News
Sharon Brous on the power of saying ‘amen’ in a broken world
January 9, 2024 — Oprah Daily
The Healing Powers of Showing Up
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January 8, 2024 - Tablet
Grieving and Living: How to hold one another in light of the ever-present reality of loss
January 8, 2024 - Jewish Book Council
Ser­mons and ​‘Some­thing Pow­er­ful’: A Con­ver­sa­tion with Sharon Brous
January 2024 - Hadassah Magazine
Healing Jewish Books for Dark Winter Days
December 22, 2023 — The Wall Street Journal
On Gaza, an American Rabbi Decries Hamas but Finds Fault With Israel’s Leaders Too
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January 21, 2025
President Trump’s Orthodox Jewish Rabbis
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January 21, 2025
Heaviness and Hope Can Coexist: Takeaways from the JFNA 2024 General Assembly
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January 20, 2025
These are all the rabbis who have spoken at US presidential inaugurations
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April 30, 2025
Amen. Selah.
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April 28, 2025
Over 550 rabbis, cantors sign letter accusing Trump of ‘abusing’ antisemitism issue
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April 25, 2025
Antisemitism reaches 45-year high in US. It’s ‘the canary in the coal mine.’
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April 22, 2025
Antisemitism comes to small Texas school?
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April 12, 2025
Story of Passover resonates in today’s world
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