Teacher

Sharon Brous



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.

Sharon Brous
FindCenter Video Image
09:47

America Is Becoming - Rabbi Sharon Brous

Our ancestors’ first journey teaches us that it’s in the displacement, in the place of uncertainty, that we find the promise of self-realization.

FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Video Image

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.

FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Video Image
30:38

Rabbi Sharon Brous - Rosh Hashanah Day 1 Sermon

"America Needs to Find its Way Again" - Race, violence and madness in an election year. How can we reclaim the soul of our country? IKAR Rosh Hashanah Day 1, 5778

FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Video Image

White Supremacy Is Our Country’s Original Sin

The legacy of slavery, the genocide of Native Americans and the exploitation of immigrants remain unresolved and largely unacknowledged.

FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Video Image
16:28

It’s Time to Reclaim Religion | Sharon Brous

At a moment when the world seems to be spinning out of control, religion might feel irrelevant—or like part of the problem. But Rabbi Sharon Brous believes we can reinvent religion to meet the needs of modern life.

FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Video Image

Sharon Brous Featured on Time Magazine’s Norman Rockwell Throwback

One of the covers for TIME Magazine features Rabbi Sharon Brous, of the Los Angeles congregation Ikar, with a cover story called “Who Gets to Be an American?”

FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Video Image
25:55

A World Is Dying, a World Is Being Born - Rabbi Sharon Brous

Our ancestors grieved. They told the truth about the past. And they built a new future-a counter-testimony to the world that was. This is our blueprint, an ancient wisdom born of suffering, and a way forward through painful and uncertain times.

FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Video Image

Op-Ed: Rabbi Sharon Brous: Why Jews Should Support Reparations for Slavery

Paying reparations would offer some financial redress, and, most significantly, it would start a reckoning that our country desperately needs.

FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Video Image
29:26

Rabbi Sharon Brous - IKAR Rosh Hashanah Sermon 5779 // 2018

BUILDING A NEW AMERICA - These are trying times, but we must not let exhaustion or cynicism dull our senses. Our history has taught us: either you work to dismantle oppressive systems, or your inaction becomes the mortar that sustains them.

FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Video Image
43:26

Rabbi Sharon Brous: Defined by Love, Not by Fear

"I want for us to live from a place of courage and a place of hope and possibility - and not be defined by fear, but be defined by love." Presentation by Rabbi Sharon Brous with Ed Bacon in the Rector's Forum at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Sunday, April 10, 2016.

FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Loader Image

UP NEXT

Jacqui Lewis