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Lunch & Learn: Senator Ben Allen with Rabbi Sharon Brous
13/04/2026 | 1h 7 mins.
California State Senator Ben Allen, representing Senate District 24, including Beverly Grove, Fairfax, Mid City West, Santa Monica, and West Hollywood, joined Rabbi Sharon Brous in conversation.
Lest We Become Agents of the Angel of Death - Rabbi Sharon Brous
12/04/2026 | 24 mins.
The death penalty has no place in a just society. And it has no place in a Jewish society.
Leaving Egypt with the Shekhinah - Rabbi Deborah Silver | Pesah VIII
10/04/2026 | 13 mins.
An introduction to the Yizkor service
The Song and The Star - Rabbinic Intern Jacob Schatz | Pesah VII
10/04/2026 | 25 mins.
Source Sheet here: https://ikar.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/The-Song-and-The-Star.pdf

Judaism greets our most powerful experiences of salvation and redemption with song and music. Using the lens of Franz Rosenzweig’s Star of Redemption, we find music not only passively accompanying our experiences of the Divine, but also actively attuning us toward justice, bringing redemption to others and joy to God.
Sacred Meetings - Agnes Borinsky | Pesah II
06/04/2026 | 16 mins.
How do we think about mo’adim, the fixed times in our calendar when
we are asked to show up for a meeting with God? Can we treat these
occasions as moments of sacred recognition?