Sinopsis
Sermons from IKAR Rabbis
Episodios
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"From the depths of our anguish, a cry for peace" - Rabbi Elad-Appelbaum in conversation with Rabbi Brous
23/03/2025 Duración: 55minLunch & Learn from Shabbat 3.21.2025 - Rabbi Tamar Elad-Appelbaum in conversation with Rabbi Sharon Brous.
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The Amen Effect with Rabbi Brous - Session 3
20/03/2025 Duración: 01h04minAn archive of Rabbi Sharon Brous's The Amen Effect class from 3.11.2025
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The Amen Effect with Rabbi Brous - Session 2
20/03/2025 Duración: 59minAn archive of Rabbi Sharon Brous's The Amen Effect Class from 2.25.2025
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Transforming Elijah - Rabbi Morris Panitz
16/03/2025 Duración: 16minThe rabbis radically reinvent Elijah. From violent zealot to gentle peace builder. The path to the messianic era depends on this transformation.
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I Am Not Your Pawn - Rabbi Sharon Brous
09/03/2025 Duración: 22minUsing Jews as a wedge to break apart the world order is not new. We must be honest about what’s happening here.
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Maoz Inon and Aziz Abu Sarah in conversation with Rabbi Sharon Brous
05/03/2025 Duración: 01h27minOn March 3rd, we welcomed Maoz Inon and Aziz Abu Sarah, Israeli and Palestinian leaders at the forefront of a burgeoning new peace movement in conversation with Rabbi Sharon Brous.
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Seeking the Hiding God - Rabbi Panitz in conversation with Prof. Arnold Eisen
02/03/2025 Duración: 58minRabbi Morris Panitz is joined by Professor Arnold Eisen to discuss his new book. "Seeking the Hiding God: A Personal Theological Essay invites readers to join the author in asking, perhaps for the first time, what they actually believe about ultimate matters of faith and doubt – and rewards fellow- searchers for ultimate meaning with reassurance that the search itself can be a source of personal fulfillment, vibrant community, and great joy."
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We Are Guardians of the Seeds of a Better World - Rabbi Sharon Brous
02/03/2025 Duración: 18minWhen your most precious resource faces grave risk, you create a sanctuary to protect and nurture it. You hold close the seeds, so that when the conditions are right, you can replant and rebuild.
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Lunch & Learn with Roots/Shorashim/Judur
24/02/2025 Duración: 01h02minHear from Rabbi Hanan Schlesinger and Khaled Abu Awwad, leaders of Roots/Shorashim/Judur, an Israeli-Palestinian grassroots initiative for understanding, nonviolence, and transformation. They represent a unique network of local Palestinians and Israelis who have come to see each other as partners in the work to make changes to end the conflict. They share with Rabbi Sharon Brous and Melissa Balaban their personal stories of struggle and transformation as well as their vision of mutual national recognition and reconciliation.
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The Amen Effect with Rabbi Sharon Brous - Session 1
24/02/2025 Duración: 01h02minIn a time of loneliness and isolation, social rupture and alienation, what will it take to mend our broken hearts and rebuild our society? Join Rabbi Brous in a series of text studies that explore the Jewish sources that form the core ideas behind her new book, The Amen Effect.
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Finding North - Rabbi Deborah Silver
23/02/2025 Duración: 18minWe are lost and disoriented. How can the core values of this week's Torah portion supply us with a compass to navigate the landscape of moral injury?
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Don’t Eat the Tainted Grain, redux - Rabbi Sharon Brous
17/02/2025 Duración: 18minYitro reminds us, in the twisted reality of our time: do not quiet your intuition. Defy the new norms. Live from your deepest moral convictions, not your most callous political calculations. And do not eat the tainted grain— no matter how hungry you are. Keep searching for an alternative food source. There is always another food source.
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So Much is Unknown. Do What You Know. - Rabbi Sharon Brous
09/02/2025 Duración: 16minFour postures our tradition warns against, in the face of grave threat: Do not snail. Do not capitulate. Do not meet become the mirror image of your enemy. Do not render yourselves preemptively powerlessness. Instead: do what you know.
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We Cannot Go Numb in this Darkness - Rabbi Hannah Jensen
02/02/2025 Duración: 19minWe are all struggling in this moment of deep darkness - either riding the constant emotional rollercoaster or already feeling numb. The thing is that both of these will destroy us. Instead, we need to stay connected to our humanity and each other to get us through. That is the only way we will find ourselves back in the light.
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Why a Mother and Daughter Visited Israel and Palestine Together
29/01/2025 Duración: 56minHow do American Jews navigate complex conversations about Israel and Palestine across generations? And what does it take to truly listen to each other? Rabbi Sharon Brous sits down with IKAR’s CEO Melissa Balaban and her daughter Emma Wergeles to reflect on their recent trip to Israel and the West Bank with Encounter. From different generational perspectives, they share what challenged them, what moved them, and why direct engagement with both Palestinian and Israeli perspectives is essential for for any hope of a lasting and just peace.
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Rebellion to Tyrants is Obedience to God - Rabbi Morris Panitz
26/01/2025 Duración: 15minThis is the moment to remember who we are, to ground ourselves in the story that stands in determined opposition to the story of tyranny. To tell of a God who cares about the vulnerable. To become again a people whose faith compels us to protect the frightened.
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Preparing for Festivities and Funerals - Rabbi Sharon Brous
19/01/2025 Duración: 17minAfter 15 months of catastrophic loss, unspeakable heartache, and the utter undoing of not one but two peoples—in body and spirit, we stand—at this moment—at an inflection point. May this be the beginning of the end of the suffering. May it be the beginning of the path toward a just peace. Read the sermon here.
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Reflections on HOME, From Amidst the Fire - Rabbi Sharon Brous
12/01/2025 Duración: 21minEven as the fires burn, let us hold on another, give voice to what we have lost, and turn toward what remains.
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The Names We Carry - Rabbi Morris Panitz
05/01/2025 Duración: 19minHow did Joseph, a man hardened by one life experience after the next, soften his heart to forgive his brothers? A remarkable midrash imagines a conversation between Joseph and Benjamin that changes everything. Ten names and all the worlds of meaning, of missing, of memory they contain.