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Sermons, talks, classes, and more from IKAR Rabbis and the IKAR community.

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Sukkot Drash - Rabbi Hannah Jensen Sep 30, 2026

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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 Sep 28, 2026

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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 Sep 27, 2026

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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. He became IsraAID’s co-CEO in 2017 and Global CEO in 2019. Polizer is the 2023 Charles Bronfman award laureate. He has 15 years’ experience in education, humanitarian aid, and international development.

Writing Yourself into the Book of Life - Rabbi Dvora Weisberg Sep 24, 2026

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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 equilibrium in the midst of uncertainty. This in turn allows us to be the authors of our own Book of Life.

How a Bereaved Father Found Solace By Encountering the Humanity of the Person Who Killed His Children Sep 22, 2026

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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 Children.

Colin Campbell is a writer and director for theater and film. He is the author of Finding the Words: Working Through Profound Loss with Hope and Purpose. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Seraglio, a short film he wrote and directed with his lovely and talented wife, Gail Lerner. He has taught Theater and/or Filmmaking at Chapman University, Loyola Marymount University, Cal Poly Pomona University, and to incarcerated youth through The Unusual Suspects. His one person show titled, Grief: A One Man ShitShow, premiered at the Hollywood Fringe Festival where it won a Best of Broadwater Award. He lives in Los Angeles and sometimes Joshua Tree.

When What We Love Falls - Rabbi Morris Panitz | Yom Kippur Sep 21, 2026

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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 Sep 21, 2026

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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 Sep 13, 2026

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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 for palliative care organizations around the world, and emphasizing healthcare’s quixotic relationship to the inevitability of death. He is a hospice and palliative medicine physician and sees patients and families via telehealth at Mettle Health, a company he co-founded with the aim to provide personalized, holistic consultations for any patient or caregiver who needs help navigating the many practical, emotional and communication issues that come with serious or chronic illness, end of life and disability. Miller’s passion for palliative care stems from personal experience -- a shock sustained while a Princeton undergraduate cost him three limbs and nearly killed him. But his experiences form the foundation of a hard-won empathy for patients who are running out of time.

Let’s Begin at the End: Learning to Live and Love Well Not in Spite of Death, But Because of It. A conversation between Rabbi Sharon Brous and Dr. BJ Miller on Rosh Hashanah II.

Avinu Malkeinu | Rosh Hashanah II Sep 13, 2026

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"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 we can do, and we just hope that you can be satisfied with what we were able to fix and forgive us for the rest. Avinu Malkeinu, show us mercy, answer us, not because we're beyond saving, but because we're trying."

Intro provided by rabbinic intern Jacob Schatz.

Zealots Are Driving Us to the Cliff’s Edge - Rabbi Sharon Brous | Rosh Hashanah I Sep 12, 2026

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

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