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Aug 24, 2025 • 16min

Preparing, and Unprepared - Rabbinic Intern Jacob Schatz

Both the Jewish calendar and the Torah come to a close leaving our people in a state of active preparation. But do we ever feel truly ready?
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Aug 18, 2025 • 17min

Show the World What a Jew Looks Like - Rabbi Sharon Brous

An earnest message to my child as she makes her own way in a broken, angry, anguished world, and a quiet plea to us all to open our hearts with love. 
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Aug 10, 2025 • 19min

Break the Ax - Rabbi Morris Panitz

At first glance, Tu B’av, the Festival of Love, seems to be the Jewish equivalent of Valentine’s Day.  But, a deeper look at the strange origins of this holiday reveals the transformative possibilities of this day.  It all begins with an ax. 
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Aug 3, 2025 • 16min

For Those Who Cannot Rise - Rabbi Deborah Silver

Tisha B'Av is the day we devote to contemplating destruction and ruin.  How should we observe it, this year, when we are already carrying so much grief?  And how can our tradition, and the story of one London rabbinical student, spur us to action?
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Jul 27, 2025 • 18min

Lonely Sits the City - Rabbi Hannah Jensen

Right now we are in the period of the most concentrated grief in the Jewish calendar leading up to Tisha b'Av next week. This year, in Los Angeles, we are in an extended period of the same. From the fires through the ICE raids beginning last month, we have gotten no reprieve. What insight does our parsha lend us about how to live in this valley of grief and also let our grief be a catalyst for action?
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Jul 20, 2025 • 21min

The Best Seat in Hell - Rabbi Morris Panitz

Buried in a list of names is the mysterious fact that the sons of the mutinous leader Korah did not die. What follows is the bizarre journey of the sons of Korah to a ledge in Hell, where their song calls out to us, even today.
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Jul 13, 2025 • 16min

Reflections from a Bomb Shelter - Rabbi Morris Panitz

Sharing a personal, first-hand account of my time in Israel during the war with Iran.
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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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