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Rabbi Sharon Brous delivering a sermon at Ikar. (Courtesy Ikar)
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Rabbi Sharon Brous: We must ‘rehumanize’ each other in an ‘inhumane world’

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(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Lea Loeb March 18, 2026March 18, 2026

Rabbi Sharon Brous has spent much of her career asking a deceptively simple question: How do we keep our humanity in a world that often pushes us toward isolation, fear […]

Tents are seen along "Skid Row" in downtown Los Angeles, July 8, 2018. (Photo/JTA-Flickr Commons-Russ Allison Loar)
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Why my L.A. synagogue is building a 55-unit housing development for unhoused seniors

Brooke Wirtschafter by Brooke Wirtschafter and JTA March 25, 2022March 28, 2022
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Israeli and American rabbis call on Bennet and Biden to take climate change seriously at UN conference

Shira Hanau by Shira Hanau and JTA November 1, 2021
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To truly heal as a nation, we must have a deep national reckoning

Rabbi Sharon Brous by Rabbi Sharon Brous and JTA January 8, 2021
Alex Edelman has embarked on several Jewish comedy projects during the pandemic. (Photo/JTA-Will Bremridge)
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This comedian is helping rabbis nail the delivery of their High Holidays services

Philissa Cramer by Philissa Cramer and JTA September 22, 2020September 22, 2020
Los Angeles recently restored regulations barring people from sleeping at night in their vehicles. (Photo/RNS-AP Photo-Damian Dovarganes)
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L.A. congregation Ikar opens its parking lot to people living in cars

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