Podcast Episodes

Pride Shabbat: LGBTQ+ Stories

Season 5782

Every June, we turn our attention and love to the LGBTQ+ community at IKAR. For many years we have taken the opportunity during PRIDE month to storie…

4 years, 3 months ago

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BEST BOOK EVER The Ambivalent Angel - Parshat Korah

Season 5782

This week, the Angel of Death showed up twice.

4 years, 3 months ago

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SERMON "The Red String" - Rabbi Morris Panitz

Season 5782

“There were four judges in Sodom, and they were named for their actions: Shakrai, meaning liar, Shakrurai, habitual liar, Zayfai, forger, and Matzlei…

4 years, 3 months ago

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IKAR Abortion Stories

Season 5782

Ours is a tradition of stories. We see this from the flawed humanity of Adam and Eve through the tangle of relationships in Genesis and the struggle …

4 years, 3 months ago

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BEST BOOK EVER Overkill - Parshat Shelach

Season 5782

Forty years in the desert?? Really?!?

4 years, 3 months ago

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Desire Revisited - Parshat Beha'alotcha

Season 5782

The Israelites have begun complaining. They say they miss the meat and melons they had back in Egypt. Really?! After God freed them from slavery and …

4 years, 3 months ago

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BBE BONUS CLASS Appealing Divine Law - Parshat Beha'alotkha

Season 5782

God gave us the law. Now we're giving it back.

4 years, 4 months ago

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BEST BOOK EVER The World's Shortest Book - Parshat Beha'alotkha

Season 5782

Someone must have slipped something into my drink. I’m reading my Torah late one night and, suddenly, the letters start to run backwards...

 

4 years, 4 months ago

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BEST BOOK EVER The Case of the Seventy Princes - Parshat Naso

Season 5782

Today's episode is a bit later than usual because of Shavuot.

4 years, 4 months ago

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SERMON There Were Twelve Flags of Israel - Shabbat Bamidbar

Thoughts on the dangers and the blessings of flag-waving

4 years, 4 months ago

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