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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.

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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 - IKAR Yom Kippur Sermon: #Wetoo 2018 // 5779

WETOO: DISCOMPOSING OUR CULTURE OF TOXIC MASCULINITY The epidemic of sexual assault and harassment thrives on many layers of cowardice and indifference, all too abundant in our culture of complicity.

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We Will Not Be Silent: Voices of the #JewishResistance

“Thousands of years ago, the Hebrew people were brutally enslaved in Egypt.

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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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Rabbi Sharon Brous: Passover Themes

The idea that it's possible to move from slavery to freedom and from darkness to light and from despair to hope-that is the greatest Jewish story every told, says Rabbi Sharon Brous of IKAR, a Jewish spiritual community in Los Angeles.

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Jewish Megatrends: Charting the Course of the American Jewish Future

Sharon Brous is a contributor to this book by Rabbi Sidney Schwarz who looks at the social norms that are shaping the habits and lifestyles of younger American Jews and why the next generation is so resistant to participate in the institutions of Jewish communal life as they currently exist.

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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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Rabbi Sharon Brous with Rabbi Noa Kushner

What happens when two of today’s leading Jewish minds join in conversation? Attend this special event to find out.

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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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Sharon Brous: My Jewish Journey Through Manhattan

Rabbi Sharon Brous remembers how hard it was to find a Jewish community that worked for her, until she found B'nai Jeshurun.

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