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Sight and Vision - Rabbi Deborah Silver
The ten spies who enter Canaan create 40 years of delay in the Israelites’ journey to the Promised Land. What did they do wrong? And how can we avoid making the same mistake they did as we witness the brutality all around us?
Even Now, We Dream - Rabbi Sharon Brous
Amid ICE raids and ballistic missiles, heres what I saw from the stage at a multifaith vigil in downtown Los Angeles, what I heard from my Iranian friend who yearns for home, and why I believe our most audacious dreams must be born in the darkest times
May You Be Blessed and Safe - Rabbi Hannah Jensen
This Pride Shabbat, we need to reckon with the currentlandscape for our trans siblings. We need to understand that trans people are being used as a wedge to divide Americans, and asa test case for increasing authoritarianism. What does our parsha teach
What I Need You To Hear - Rabbi Morris Panitz
When trauma is acknowledged, not denied, not justified, notdismissed through comparison, only then can something new and hopeful be imagined. Read the sermon here.
Four Things I Know - Rabbi Sharon Brous
After the antisemitic murder of two young beloveds ona DC street, there are four things I know.Parashat Behar-Behukotai 5785
It’s Precisely Now that We Dream Big - Rabbi Sharon Brous
A strange, mysterious half-story told in the Torah hints at a failure of leadership and a failure of law, and calls us to be brave and bold, especially when our dreams seem furthest from reality.
A Letter to the Pope - Rabbi Sharon Brous
A blessing for strength in spirit and body for anew Pope in a time when spiritual and moral leadership matters more profoundly than ever.
“What Faith Means to Me” - Rabbi Brous in conversation at the Milken Institute Global Conference 2025
In a world roiled by seemingly unprecedented division and doubt, the longing for spiritual meaning and for a life rooted in faith appears to be growing ever stronger. In this session, speakers share their perspectives and experiences of faith, and the
Rabbi Brous at the Milken Institute Global Conference 2025 - The Amen Effect Author Talk
To thine own self be true: Sharon Brous has let this advice illuminate her path to becoming a rabbi. She was raised with a strong social, but not religious, Jewish identity. The more she studied and admired the humanity in the sages writings, the more