Sharon Brous

Jan 11, 2025 | forward.com | Sharon Brous

This essay is adapted from Rabbi Sharon Brous' sermon, delivered at IKAR in Los Angeles on January 11, 2025, while wildfires continued to burn across the area, killing 13 people and destroying at least 12,000 homes and buildings, including a Pasadena synagogue. The sermon has been reprinted with permission. I immersed myself this week in the Warsaw Rabbi's collection of sermons from 1939 to 1942.

Dec 3, 2024 | christiancentury.org | Sharon Brous |Mac Loftin |Reggie L. Williams |Victoria Barnett

The promise of what Sharon Brous calls “the amen effect” is an end to social isolation, an end to hiding from heartache. It is the regeneration of caring relations and the will to be present when people are suffering. Brous is a leader at the junction of faith and justice in the United States.

Feb 1, 2024 | spiritualityhealth.com | Sharon Brous

One afternoon in rabbinical seminary, I stumbled across an ancient text that would one day change my life. It was a Mishnah, a Rabbinic teaching buried deep in a third-century Jewish legal compendium, in an arcane section that to most people appears about as riveting as the boilerplate of a cell phone contract. But as I sat at the dining room table of our cramped New York City apartment poring over the text, I couldn’t shake the sense that it held a deeper meaning, one I just couldn’t yet crack.

Jan 27, 2024 | spiritualityandpractice.com | Sharon Brous

The author of this book is one of the most prominent rabbis in the United States, who founded a congregation in Los Angeles that’s become a model for others around the country. She is also no stranger to Washington DC, having been the rabbi chosen to bless both Presidents Obama and Biden at their inaugural prayer services.

Jan 26, 2024 | mariashriversundaypaper.com | Sharon Brous

January 27th is International Holocaust Remembrance Day, a day to remember the six million Jews and millions of other victims murdered by the Nazis. As we are seeing record rise in antisemitism globally, it is more important than ever to commemorate and learn about the lessons of the Holocaust. One such organization that is helping to keep history alive is If You Heart What I Heard.