Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchTo Live and Love Well Not in Spite of Death, But Because of It - Rabbi Sharon Brous & Dr. BJ Miller | Rosh Hashanah II
Season 5787
Palliative care specialist BJ Miller helps patients and families face illness and death realistically, comfortably, and on their own terms. Miller is…
4 weeks ago
Avinu Malkeinu | Rosh Hashanah II
Season 5787
"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. …
4 weeks ago
Zealots Are Driving Us to the Cliff’s Edge - Rabbi Sharon Brous | Rosh Hashanah I
Season 5787
Extremism becomes palatable only in the absence of robust moral alternatives. That’s where we come in.
4 weeks, 1 day ago
This Is Your Life - Rabbi Hannah Jensen | Erev Rosh Hashanah Sermon
Season 5787
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 inve…
1 month ago
Taller On The Inside - Rabbi Deborah Silver
Season 5786
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 re…
1 month ago
Read it both ways - Rabbi Candice Levy
Season 5786
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…
1 month, 1 week ago
Rabbi Sharon Brous and Daniela Gerson discuss "The Wanderers"
Season 5786
Part genealogical detective story, part gripping history, part contemporary reporting on war-torn territories, The Wanderers - A Story of Exile, Sur…
1 month, 1 week ago
IKAR High Holy Days Bootcamp 5787
Season 5786
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 …
1 month, 2 weeks ago
The Verse That Made Me Want to Throw Out the Whole Book - Rabbi Myra Meskin
Season 5786
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…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
On Courage: How to Be a Dissident in an Age of Fear - Ami Fields-Meyer & Rabbi Sharon Brous in conversation
Season 5786
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…
1 month, 2 weeks ago