Celebrating 20 Years of IKAR Magic
Celebrating 20 Years of IKAR Magic

Our Annual Party With A Purpose

Our Annual Party With A Purpose

Honoring our founding board and celebrating our founding members.

 

Sunday, 6/2, 5pm, Historic Woman’s Club

 

Click here to purchase tickets, sponsorships, and look out for our auction.

 

Join us for a magical evening of food, drinks and dessert.

 

“Building this community together has been a true labor of love. Dreaming up, launching, nurturing, agonizing over, strategizing endlessly about IKAR has been among the great blessings of my life. Together we built a community in which we’d be proud to raise our kids, one that aligned with our values and would allow our spirits to soar, that would inspire us to grow and change, to experiment and learn and argue and sing, and still have enough energy for disco break fast.” – Rabbi Sharon Brous

Celebrating 20 Years of IKAR Magic

Honoring our founding board and celebrating our founding members.

 

Sunday, 6/2, 5pm, Historic Woman’s Club

 

Click here to purchase tickets, sponsorships, and look out for our auction.

 

Join us for a magical evening of food, drinks and dessert.

 

“Building this community together has been a true labor of love. Dreaming up, launching, nurturing, agonizing over, strategizing endlessly about IKAR has been among the great blessings of my life. Together we built a community in which we’d be proud to raise our kids, one that aligned with our values and would allow our spirits to soar, that would inspire us to grow and change, to experiment and learn and argue and sing, and still have enough energy for disco break fast.” – Rabbi Sharon Brous

Calendar

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Monday-Friday & Sunday, 8am PT, Virtual Morning Minyan

 

Friday, 5/17 – Sunday, 5/19 – Shabbaton

 

Friday, 5/17, 5pm, Boomers (60+) Virtual Cocktail Hour

 

Saturday, 5/18, 9:30am PT, Shabbat Morning Services (Hybrid)

 

Saturday, 5/18, 12:30pm PT, Lunch and Learn with Vlada Nedak, Head of Project Kesher Ukraine and the Women’s Opportunity Fund of Ukraine

 

Sunday, 5/19, 9:30am PT, The Art and Practice of The Amen Effect (Virtual)

 

Sunday, 5/19, 12pm PT, Spiritual Practices That Bring Joy (Led by Dr. Aviva Feintech)

Beyond the Limits

– Rabbi Morris Panitz

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Saturday, May 11, 2024

Holiness is recognizing that what looks like the whole story is always, necessarily, only part of the story. It’s the stretch that moves us beyond what we know and what we’ve seen and into what we can imagine and dream.

I Care About Our Safety. And I Care About Our Soul.
I Care About Our Safety. And I Care About Our Soul.

– Rabbi Sharon Brous

– Rabbi Sharon Brous

The protest movement has unleashed a virulent and dangerous antisemitism that endangers Jews, threatens democracy, and undermines the fight for justice and liberation for Palestinians. We must do better. What we need is a movement fueled by empathy and moral imagination. One that recognizes that both peoples have suffered terribly. That neither is leaving. That a just future is possible for everyone.
Part II: I Care About Our Safety. And I Care About Our Soul. May 4th, 2024 — Aharei Mot 5784
We must have zero tolerance for violent and racist rhetoric in our Jewish community. We must support the birth of a new mixed multitude: those who reject extremism, who reject the violent, reductive idea that Palestinians and Jews must be eternal enemies. That one’s victory necessitates another’s victimhood, or even worse: elimination. This mixed multitude is made of people who know that we do not undermine our own sorrow or betray our own people when we see one another, those who understand that our fates are all tied up in one another.
The protest movement has unleashed a virulent and dangerous antisemitism that endangers Jews, threatens democracy, and undermines the fight for justice and liberation for Palestinians. We must do better. What we need is a movement fueled by empathy and moral imagination. One that recognizes that both peoples have suffered terribly. That neither is leaving. That a just future is possible for everyone.
Part II: I Care About Our Safety. And I Care About Our Soul. May 4th, 2024 — Aharei Mot 5784
We must have zero tolerance for violent and racist rhetoric in our Jewish community. We must support the birth of a new mixed multitude: those who reject extremism, who reject the violent, reductive idea that Palestinians and Jews must be eternal enemies. That one’s victory necessitates another’s victimhood, or even worse: elimination. This mixed multitude is made of people who know that we do not undermine our own sorrow or betray our own people when we see one another, those who understand that our fates are all tied up in one another.

 

Responding to the crisis in Israel and Gaza

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-Remembering and Rebuilding Kfar Azza

-Writings

-Videos

-Audio

-On Israel

-Importont articles featuring our partner organizations

Support

“The meaning comes not from what we have, but what we share” – Rabbi Sharon Brous

Thank you for supporting our community.

 

Your generous contribution to IKAR will help sustain and develop our community by providing meaningful ways to engage in Judaism and affect change in the world.

 

Thank you for enabling us to do this holy work.

The Mission

IKAR’s mission is to reanimate Jewish life and develop a spiritual and moral foundation for a just and equitable society. Fusing piety and hutzpah, obligation, and inspiration, IKAR is a dynamic, multi-generational community that fosters a yearning for personal, purposeful, creative engagement in Jewish life, particularly among young and disaffected Jews. Rooted in Los Angeles and reaching globally, we strive to actively and intentionally celebrate the vibrancy and diversity of the Jewish people.

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