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Jun 29, 2025 • 32min

The Folly of Those Dark Fantasies - Rabbi Sharon Brous

Trauma, history, fear—all of these lead us down a path that is as futile as it is dangerous. At the end of one terrible war and in the midst of another, we can do better. We must grow in our ability to imagine one other.
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Jun 22, 2025 • 1h 11min

Jeremy Ben-Ami (J Street Pres.) and Rabbi Sharon Brous in Conversation

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Jun 22, 2025 • 17min

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?
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Jun 15, 2025 • 19min

Even Now, We Dream - Rabbi Sharon Brous

Amid ICE raids and ballistic missiles, here’s 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
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Jun 8, 2025 • 20min

May You Be Blessed and Safe - Rabbi Hannah Jensen

This Pride Shabbat, we need to reckon with the current landscape for our trans siblings. We need to understand that trans people are being used as a wedge to divide Americans, and as a test case for increasing authoritarianism. What does our parsha teach us about the dangers of callousness, and what brighter, more beautiful future can we imagine?
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Jun 1, 2025 • 18min

What I Need You To Hear - Rabbi Morris Panitz

When trauma is acknowledged, not denied, not justified, not dismissed through comparison, only then can something new and hopeful be imagined.     Read the sermon here.
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May 25, 2025 • 22min

Four Things I Know - Rabbi Sharon Brous

After the antisemitic murder of two young beloveds on a DC street, there are four things I know. Parashat Behar-Behukotai 5785
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May 18, 2025 • 25min

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.
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May 11, 2025 • 17min

A Letter to the Pope - Rabbi Sharon Brous

A blessing for strength in spirit and body for a new Pope in a time when spiritual and moral leadership matters more profoundly than ever.
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May 9, 2025 • 1h 5min

“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 role faith and faith-driven communities can and should play in calming stormy seas. This is an archive of a live event from 5/7/2025 that took place as part of Milken Institute's Global Conference.

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