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Yizkor Drash - Rabbi Deborah Silver | Shmini Atzeret...

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2026/10/05

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Sukkot Drash - Rabbi Hannah Jensen

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2026/09/30

Rabbi Hannah Jensen's teaching on Sukkot before the Torah reading on Shabbat 9.26.2026

15:09

It's Getting Hot in Here - Rabbinic Intern Jacob...

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2026/09/28

The Talmud's story of a sweltering sukkah illuminates our urgent need for authentically Jewish answers and action as we face the mounting climate crisis.

50:19

IsraAID’s Yotam Polizer and Rabbi Sharon Brous in...

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2026/09/27

Yotam Polizer is the Global CEO of IsraAID, Israel’s leading humanitarian NGO. Yotam oversees IsraAID’s global operations, strategy and partnerships across 15 countries. He became IsraAID’s co-CEO in 2017 and Global CEO in 2019. Polizer is the 2023 Charles Bronfman award laureate. He has 15 years’ experience in education, humanitarian aid, and international development.

15:40

Writing Yourself into the Book of Life - Rabbi Dvora...

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2026/09/24

One of the central prayers of the High Holy Day liturgy reminds us of the uncertainty we face in the year ahead. But the prayer also offers us ways to maintain equilibrium in the midst of uncertainty. This in turn allows us to be the authors of our own Book of Life.

49:45

How a Bereaved Father Found Solace By Encountering...

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2026/09/22

Rabbi Sharon Brous and Colin Campbell in conversation: Choosing Love: How a Bereaved Father Found Solace By Encountering the Humanity of the Person Who Killed His Children.Colin Campbell is a writer and director for theater and film. He is the author of Finding the Words: Working Through Profound Loss with Hope and Purpose. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Seraglio, a short film he wrote and directed with his lovely and talented wife, Gail Lerner. He has taught Theater and/or Filmmaking

24:59

When What We Love Falls - Rabbi Morris Panitz | Yom...

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2026/09/21

What does it mean to remain connected to something we love when it disappoints us? How do we hold love, criticism, belonging, and moral involvement in the same hands?

32:52

The Torah I Learned From the Pope, and From My Father...

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2026/09/21

From estrangement to engagement: How small, steadfast acts of love will be the bridge to the healing we need.

55:28

To Live and Love Well Not in Spite of Death, But...

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2026/09/13

Palliative care specialist BJ Miller helps patients and families face illness and death realistically, comfortably, and on their own terms. Miller is cultivating a model for palliative care organizations around the world, and emphasizing healthcare’s quixotic relationship to the inevitability of death. He is a hospice and palliative medicine physician and sees patients and families via telehealth at Mettle Health, a company he co-founded with the aim to provide personalized, holistic consultations

9:49

Avinu Malkeinu | Rosh Hashanah II

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2026/09/13

"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. There's nothing more we can do, and we just hope that you can be satisfied with what we were able to fix and forgive us for the rest. Avinu Malkeinu, show us mercy, answer us, not because we're beyond saving, but because we're trying."Intro provided by rabbinic intern Jacob Schatz.

37:33

Zealots Are Driving Us to the Cliff’s Edge - Rabbi...

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2026/09/12

Extremism becomes palatable only in the absence of robust moral alternatives. That’s where we come in.

17:36

This Is Your Life - Rabbi Hannah Jensen | Erev Rosh...

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2026/09/12

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 invest in the life you have and find the beautyin it.

13:38

Taller On The Inside - Rabbi Deborah Silver

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2026/09/06

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 read just before the High Holydays, put itself into conversation with Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur?

15:31

Read it both ways - Rabbi Candice Levy

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2026/08/30

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 becomes possible when we read the parashah forwards and backwards, not only as protest against injustice, but also as a guide to rebuilding a shattered world?

60:30

Rabbi Sharon Brous and Daniela Gerson discuss "The...

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2026/08/30

Part genealogical detective story, part gripping history, part contemporary reporting on war-torn territories, The Wanderers - A Story of Exile, Survival, and Unexpected Love in the Shadow of World War II, chronicles Daniela’s journey to unearth this past and reveal its echoes in still-contested lands from Ukraine to Israel.

61:50

IKAR High Holy Days Bootcamp 5787

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2026/08/28

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 (What can I expect if I’m coming for the first time? Wait, another Amidah? And which service do I wear white to?), along with some of the most perplexing questions of the season (Remind me why we’re doing all this? Why does September feel like a marathon? Is teshuvah really possible?). We’ll do our best to connect, elucidate, and elaborate in 90 minutes

19:38

The Verse That Made Me Want to Throw Out the Whole...

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2026/08/24

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 with difficult texts-and to see interpretation not as an escape from tradition, but as our obligation within it.

69:04

On Courage: How to Be a Dissident in an Age of Fear -...

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2026/08/23

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 by J Street and New Israel Fund.

21:17

The Relentless Pursuit of Peace - Rabbi Sharon Brous

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2026/08/16

I hunger for a leadership with the moral seriousness, the moral imagination to recognize that the greatest achievement is not brute force and military victory, but the embrace and affirmation of human life. Of peace.

14:00

Between Two Mountains - Rabbi Tova Leibovic-Douglas

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2026/08/09

What happens when we have the courage to really see what is before us—the blessing, the curse, and everything in between?Re’eh invites us to look up, pay attention, and enter Elul and this season with our eyes and hearts wide open.

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