IKAR
@weareikar.bsky.social
IKAR is a Jewish community rooted in ancient wisdom and inspired by the moral mandate to build a more just and loving world.
"What we have to do is expand our scope of moral concern to find the humanity in one another again." Rabbi Sharon Brous of @weareikar.bsky.social, showing us what it looks like to truly acknowledge human rights and dignity of all. www.nytimes.com/2023/11/17/p...
Thanks for the shoutout, @rns.org! "This 8 am Zoom service has become a satellite of love" religionnews.com/2026/06/23/t...
This 8 am Zoom service has become a satellite of love
(RNS) — The 30-minute morning minyan offered through the Los Angeles-based IKAR Synagogue has become the primary form of community and prayer for a group of Jews from around the world.
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Rabbi @sharonbrous.bsky.social, Senior Rabbi & Founder of @weareikar.bsky.social, issued a wakeup call on the Supreme Court’s gutting of the Voting Rights Act. “Our future is bound up in one another, and a democracy that disenfranchises one ultimately disenfranchises us all.”
SAVE THE DATE - IKAR’s Party With a Purpose 2026: heart + humanity: embracing hope, amplifying impact Sunday, May 31, 2026 | 6:30-10:00 PM @wendemuseum.bsky.social | Culver City Honoring IKAR Board Member, Liz Hirsh Naftali Humanitarian ambassador, author, speaker, podcast host & hostage advocate
Over 1,100 American clergy across all Jewish denominations unite to stand with refugees, asylum seekers, and immigrants. Together, they affirm our core Jewish values that declare our responsibility for the dignity, humanity and rights of ALL who dwell within our borders.
"If everything is antisemitic, then nothing is." Rabbi @sharonbrous.bsky.social, Senior Rabbi & Founder of @weareikar.bsky.social, and the Nexus Project's President, Jonathan Jacoby, discuss the weaponization of antisemitism and why sensationalizing antisemitism is a direct threat to Jewish safety.
From our friends at PICO California - House Vote TODAY: Demand a NO on ICE Funding - Call your Representative right now and demand they continue holding the line and voting NO on additional funding for ICE win.newmode.net/picoca/rejec...
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We’re grateful to share some good news: @weareikar.bsky.social has received a BREAKWEEK grant from R&R: The Rest of our Lives to support rest and restoration for our team! restofourlives.org/reflections/...
2026 BREAKWEEK Grantees — R&R: The rest of our lives
Every nonprofit in R&R’s BREAKWEEK program will pause their organization’s operations for their entire team for 1-week in 2026. It’s called Collective Rest!
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We are heartbroken and stand in solidarity with Beth Israel Congregation in Jackson, Mississippi, targeted in an arson attack this past Shabbat. Help them rebuild: bethisraelms.org
IKAR’s Annual 5K & Community Day Sunday, 1/18, 9:30am, Cheviot Hills Park, bit.ly/118265kday Wear your best tie-dye and join us for a fun run/walk/move our bodies however we are able. We’ll also shmooze and nosh and do some good work together in the park.
"...light is born from the midst of the deepest, most impenetrable darkness. That has always been true, and it is today, too." -Rabbi @sharonbrous.bsky.social, @weareikar.bsky.social
Opinion | The Humanity Amid the Horror at Bondi Beach
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This week at @weareikar.bsky.social 📆 RSVP and details ikar.org/calendar Featured art: @thesarahshow.bsky.social
Join us on 12/6 around 11:30am PT in person & on YouTube.com/ikarlosangeles for a conversation b/w R' Angela Buchdahl + R' @sharonbrous.bsky.social on faith, identity, leadership, and Buchdahl’s new book, Heart of a Stranger. Please RSVP bit.ly/buchdahl12625 if you're joining in person.
At @weareikar.bsky.social, Mitzvah Monday is our way of forging our own path this time of year. Why give to IKAR right now, ikar.org/ikar-justice...? Because our tradition tells us to give, because it’s the right thing to do, and because this is how IKAR unites to lift up those around us.
@weareikar.bsky.social is hiring a Programs Coordinator. Please share with your networks and head to ikar.org/careers/ for more information.
,בָּרוּךְ אַתָּה ה' אֱלֹקֵינוּ מֶלֶךְ הָעוֹלָם שֶׁהֶחֱיָנוּ וְקִיְּמָנוּ וְהִגִּיעָנוּ לַזְּמַן הַזֶּה We thank You, God, for keeping us alive and sustaining us, for letting us live to witness this moment בָּרוּךְ אַתָּה ה' אֱלֹקֵינוּ מֶֽלֶךְ הָעוֹלָם מַתִּיר אֲסוּרִים We thank You, Holy One, for releasing these beloved captives
We are heartbroken by the murder of six Israelis at a bus stop in Jerusalem this morning, and we grieve with their beloveds. Every day brings more sorrow— for hostage families, for innocents in Gaza, and now for six more bereaved families in Israel.
Healing Across Divides: People Taking Action This gathering will highlight the transformative work to support children and families in Gaza and beyond. 9/10, 7pm, Echo Park, forms.gle/Xook7URcMd9v... Co-Sponsors: IKAR, Nefesh, NewGround, St. Paul’s Commons Echo Park
We enter 5786 facing great challenges as a people, a nation, and a world. Amid so much heartache and uncertainty, we gather to dream, mourn, and dance together, to learn, pray and find renewed hope together. ikar.org/high-holy-da...
LA Voice organizers Angel and Rabbi Suzy, and leader Brooke from @weareikar.bsky.social repping us all the way out in Albuquerque, NM at an action at Walmart!! Walmart is one of the companies that have been collaborating with ICE. Our crew said they’re bringing home some new protest chants 👀 ✊🏾
The hostage families are demanding that the Israeli government prioritize the safety of their loved ones and the lives of Gazan civilians over messianic dreams of occupying Gaza. We stand in solidarity with them. Join us in LA, San Francisco, and DC: www.newjewishnarrative.org/events
