IKAR Podcasts

A conversation with Standing Together, a grassroots movement mobilizing Jewish and Palestinian citizens of Israel in pursuit of peace, equality, and social and climate justice.

Exploring personal narratives bridging divides in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, embracing hope and unity amidst adversity, and the transformative power of storytelling in redemption.

When God threatens to wipe out the Israelites, Mosesrecognizes, in the subtleties of language, that history is on the verge ofdangerously repeating.  Moses must become a new kind of leader, one whodoes everything in his power to save the people from God’s wrath.  Onlythen can healing begin. 

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We must reject the way of eternal war. The hostages must be returned to their loved ones. Humanitarian aid must reach the people of Gaza immediately. Israeli and Palestinian leadership must commit to a long term negotiated peace. There is another way, and saying so is not betrayal… it is love. Parashat Tetzaveh 5784

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My reflections on a week spent at the U.S./Mexico border, witnessing up close the horrors that are happening every single day. We continue to makeit nearly impossible for people seeking asylum to safely enter this country andwith the numbers of displaced people around the world growing quickly, we needbetter solutions. The Torah's images of the keruvim (cherubs) offer us two versions- what will we choose?

If law is the ground upon which we stand, story must be the waterthat softens the soil.  When law leaves story behind, it runs the risk ofdisregarding the human beings it's meant to protect.  In the last year anda half, since Roe V. Wade was overturned, far too many women and people whoneed abortion access have been dangerously denied care. It’s time to tell theirstories and protect the right to reproductive freedom. 

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