IKAR Podcasts

Zealots Are Driving Us to the Cliff’s Edge - Rabbi Sharon Brous | Rosh Hashanah I

Extremism becomes palatable only in the absence of robust moral alternatives. That’s where we come in.

This Is Your Life - Rabbi Hannah Jensen | Erev Rosh Hashanah Sermon

Don't let your life pass you by. It may be that your life is not what you imagined. Grieve what you need to grieve about where you are. And then invest in the life you ha

Taller On The Inside - Rabbi Deborah Silver

The High Holyday liturgy is full of images of emptiness and abasement, as if to tell us, “You got nothing.” How does this week’s parashah, always read just before the Hig

Read it both ways  - Rabbi Candice Levy

Ki Tavo offers a theology of reward and punishment, of cause and effect, but lived experience teaches us that the world does not work so neatly. What becomes possible whe

Rabbi Sharon Brous and Daniela Gerson discuss "The Wanderers"

Part genealogical detective story, part gripping history, part contemporary reporting on war-torn territories, The Wanderers - A Story of Exile, Survival, and Unexpected

IKAR High Holy Days Bootcamp 5787

Grab a glass of grape juice or wine and a comfy chair, and join your rabbis for a launch of the season. We’ll cover many of the High Holy Day basics (What can I expect if

The Verse That Made Me Want to Throw Out the Whole Book - Rabbi Myra Meskin

What do we do when Torah contains laws that violate our deepest moral commitments? A troubling passage from Parashat Ki Teitzei invites us to wrestle with difficult texts

On Courage: How to Be a Dissident in an Age of Fear - Ami Fields-Meyer & Rabbi Sharon Brous in conversation

Ami Fields-Meyer discusses his New York Times best seller "On Courage: How to Be a Dissident in an Age of Fear" with Rabbi Sharon Brous. Co-Sponsored by J Street and New

The Relentless Pursuit of Peace - Rabbi Sharon Brous

I hunger for a leadership with the moral seriousness, the moral imagination to recognize that the greatest achievement is not brute force and military victory, but the em

Between Two Mountains - Rabbi Tova Leibovic-Douglas

What happens when we have the courage to really see what is before us—the blessing, the curse, and everything in between? Re’eh invites us to look up, pay attention, and

Perhaps The Word Was For Me - Rabbi Morris Panitz

From the broken brotherhoods of Genesis to the final conversation between Moses and Aaron, the Torah asks what it truly means to become our brother's keeper. Through a re

Say it Anyway - Rabbi Hannah Jensen

ASL Interpretation for this sermon is available on YouTube. In this week's parsha we read that Moses pleads with God, and the form of that word (va'etchanan) only shows

The Dust and the Stars - Rabbinic Intern Jacob Schatz

The book of Deuteronomy has begun, and our people are as numerous as the stars in the sky. But Moses cries out, “Eikhah!” The famous heart-broken “how” that foreshadows

Rabbis and Prophets: The Challenge of the Moral Critic - Rabbi Sharon Brous and Donniel Hartman

Join Donniel Hartman and Rabbi Sharon Brous at the Shalom Hartman Institute for a profoundly honest and challenging conversation on the moral responsibility of Jewish lea

Choose Mercy Before Vengeance Chooses Us - Rabbi Morris Panitz

What happens when the man who once found refuge forgets the power of mercy? Drawing together Moses' flight to Midian, the cities of refuge, and one of the Torah's most di

Rabbi Sharon Brous and Reverend Raphael Warnock in Conversation

Join Rabbi Sharon Brous in conversation with Raphael Warnock, Baptist pastor and senator from Georgia, to discuss his new book The Crooked Places Made Straight: Reflec

Guest Sermon from Reverend Raphael Warnock

Senator Reverend Raphael G. Warnock is a transformational voice in Congress and the pastor of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Ebenezer Baptist Church, and for the semiquincente

Kissing Girls on Shabbat w/ Dr. Sara Glass + Lani Santo

A conversation with Dr. Sara Glass, author of Kissing Girls on Shabbat, and Lani Santo, CEO of Footsteps, discussing LGBTQ+ identity, chosen family, and building a self

The Only One - Rabbi Deborah Silver

In this week's Torah reading we meet a character who is mentioned just once and then vanishes from the story.  Who is he, and what does he teach us?  And what does all of

Before It’s Too Late - Rabbi Sharon Brous

The window of opportunity is closing.But as long as the spark of vitality remains within us, it’s not yet too late.