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Sharon Brous is an American rabbi based in Los Angeles. She was one of the founders of IKAR (meaning “essence” in Hebrew), a leading edge Jewish movement (part of the Jewish Renewal). She believes in a strong connection between religion and politics.

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It’s Time to Reclaim Religion

At the very same time that we need religion to be a strong force against extremism, it is suffering from a second pernicious trend, what I call religious routine-ism. - Sharon Brous

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2017
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Extracting Meaning from the Madness

Rabbi Harold Schulweis wrote 30 years ago that the way we work through the memory of the Holocaust, the Shoah, the way we extract meaning from the madness, would be the most critical question of post-Holocaust generations.

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Rabbi Sharon Brous
2017
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A Time for Moral Reimagining

This moment of aching and awakening demands that we cultivate a new moral imagination.

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Sharon Brous
2020
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My Daughter Loves the Miracle of Israel. It Was Time for Her to See the Other Side

To love a place — Israel or the United States — does not necessarily mean to love its government.

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Rabbi Sharon Brous
2018
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Rabbi Sharon Brous’ Rosh Hashanah Sermon: The Bug in the Software of the West

America is turning from a place with an undercurrent of antisemitism, to a place in which antisemitism is condoned by the state. What are we going to do about it?

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Rabbi Sharon Brous
2017
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A Heart-Stopping School Shooting Ad: No Child Should Have to Text Last Words to Mom

The new Sandy Hook public service announcement is brutal but not gratuitous. It tells us we must not accept gun violence in our schools as inevitable.

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Sharon Brous and Jacqui J. Lewis
2019
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The Politics of Division and Diversion

Millions of people around the world took to the streets in Women’s Marches, proclaiming fidelity to basic fundamental rights for women, people with disabilities, religious minority groups, immigrants and all vulnerable populations.

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Rabbi Sharon Brous
2017
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‘I’ve Spent My Life Studying These Books That Say Decency Actually Matters’

Progressive clergy are pushing a new movement that’s unapologetically political—and deeply rooted in textual traditions.

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Emma Green
2017
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Why I Have Come to Support Defunding the Police

The last few weeks have made it impossible to hide from the truth that Black and white people have fundamentally different experiences with law enforcement in this country.

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Sharon Brous
2020
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We Need to Talk: The Link Between Sexual Violence and Gun Violence

Perhaps the proximity of these two horrifying American tragedies will finally be a wake-up call for our soul-weary nation.

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Jacqui Lewis, Rabbi Sharon Brous, Valarie Kaur
2017
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