IKAR Podcasts

Call Him Ishmael / Parashat Lekh Lekha - Rabbi David Kasher

Source sheet: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Nfl-fSyOCyo0dyD8X417K9lBUu56LepJ/view?usp=sharing This is a recording of the Weekly Parashah - Rabbi David Kasher's Torah

Dr. Shoshan Haran - Mission in Captivity: One Woman's Struggle to Survive and Save Her Family in Gaza

Dr. Shoshan Haran & Rabbi Sharon Brous in conversation. Her life's work was met with unimaginable tragedy on Oct. 7, 2023, when she was kidnapped from Kibbutz Be'eri and

Joy and Freedom: The Teshuvah Revolution - Rabbi Bradley Artson

Unique among all ancient literature, the Torah rejects a world constrained by rigid cause and effect, manifest by honor, affront and appeasement, instead inviting us into

After the Flood / Parashat Noah - Rabbi David Kasher

⁠Source sheet: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1y2T1DiQxUoOGxy9u526GfyNrkRc_Z3Nx/view?usp=sharing This is a recording of the Weekly Parashah - Rabbi David Kasher's Torah

Lunch & Learn with The Parents Circle - Rabbi Sharon Brous in conversation with Sima Awad and Maayan Inon

Hear from Sima Awad and Maayan Inon as they share their journeys towards reconciliation. Sima is a bereaved Palestinian sister whose brother was killed by an Israeli sold

It’s Time to Write a New Beginning - Rabbi Sharon Brous

The Cornell 57 has reawakened critical conversations around violence, complicity, and the bystander effect. It also reveals the failure of the dominant stories we tell ar

The Knowledge of Sweet and Bitter / Parashat Bereishit - Rabbi David Kasher

Source sheet: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JAg6k6KfzAw-1PN1l6Vk7cWxiL13leRM/view?usp=sharing This is a recording of the Weekly Parashah - Rabbi David Kasher's Torah

Yizkor Drash - Rabbi Deborah Silver | Shmini Atzeret 5787

Sukkot Drash - Rabbi Hannah Jensen

Rabbi Hannah Jensen's teaching on Sukkot before the Torah reading on Shabbat 9.26.2026

It's Getting Hot in Here - Rabbinic Intern Jacob Schatz | Sukkot

The Talmud's story of a sweltering sukkah illuminates our urgent need for authentically Jewish answers and action as we face the mounting climate crisis. 

IsraAID’s Yotam Polizer and Rabbi Sharon Brous in Conversation in the Sukkah

Yotam Polizer is the Global CEO of IsraAID, Israel’s leading humanitarian NGO. Yotam oversees IsraAID’s global operations, strategy and partnerships across 15 countries.

Writing Yourself into the Book of Life - Rabbi Dvora Weisberg

One of the central prayers of the High Holy Day liturgy reminds us of the uncertainty we face in the year ahead. But the prayer also offers us ways to maintain equilibriu

How a Bereaved Father Found Solace By Encountering the Humanity of the Person Who Killed His Children

Rabbi Sharon Brous and Colin Campbell in conversation: Choosing Love: How a Bereaved Father Found Solace By Encountering the Humanity of the Person Who Killed His Childre

When What We Love Falls - Rabbi Morris Panitz | Yom Kippur

What does it mean to remain connected to something we love when it disappoints us? How do we hold love, criticism, belonging, and moral involvement in the same hands?

The Torah I Learned From the Pope, and From My Father - Rabbi Sharon Brous | Kol Nidre

From estrangement to engagement: How small, steadfast acts of love will be the bridge to the healing we need.

To Live and Love Well Not in Spite of Death, But Because of It - Rabbi Sharon Brous & Dr. BJ Miller | Rosh Hashanah II

Palliative care specialist BJ Miller helps patients and families face illness and death realistically, comfortably, and on their own terms. Miller is cultivating a model

Avinu Malkeinu | Rosh Hashanah II

"We've tried everything, and we nonetheless fear that it just wasn't enough. Now we are here standing before you with no more plays in the playbook. There's nothing more

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