IKAR Podcasts

Rabbi Sharon Brous

ben@ikar.org

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Booking Overview

This Jewish religious and educational podcast focuses on sermons, Torah-based teaching, and moral and social issues, with occasional interviews featuring prominent rabbis, scholars, authors, and public officials. Suitable pitches include Jewish thought leaders, religious leaders, ethicists, authors, and civic figures with strong expertise in Judaism, social justice, leadership, or public morality; booking difficulty is high because recent interviewees include a major religious scholar and a sitting U.S. senator.

Metrics

Episodes: 543

Frequency: Irregular

Rating: 4.8/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Neutral

Location: USA

YouTube: 10.4k subscribers

Instagram: 21.0k followers

Contact Information

ben@ikar.org

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Host

Rabbi Sharon Brous - Founding and senior rabbi of IKAR, known for work on Jewish spirituality, social justice, moral leadership, and contemporary Jewish life.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

high
Typical Credentials:  
Prominent rabbis, Jewish scholars, religious leaders, authors, public officials, and established experts on ethics, social justice, leadership, or public morality.
Required Achievements:  
Published books, Leadership of major religious or educational institutions, National public office, Recognized scholarship or public commentary

Recent Guest Discussions

Donniel Hartman - Moral Responsibility In Jewish Leadership, Antisemitism, Political Extremism, Climate Change, Artificial Intelligence, Truth-telling, And Zionism.

Raphael G. Warnock - The Moral Meaning Of America, National Character, Moral Imagination, And Themes From His Book The Crooked Places Made Straight.

Recent Topics

Judaism, Jewish Leadership, Torah, Ethics, Social Justice

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
IKAR Podcasts
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Perhaps The Word Was For Me - Rabbi Morris Panitz

August 02, 2026

From the broken brotherhoods of Genesis to the final conversation between Moses and Aaron, the Torah asks what it truly means to become our brother's keeper. Through a relationship shaped by speech, silence, conflict, and compassion, a vision emerges of how even fractured relationships can find redemption when truth remains bound to love.

Say it Anyway - Rabbi Hannah Jensen

July 26, 2026

ASL Interpretation for this sermon is available on YouTube. In this week's parsha we read that Moses pleads with God, and the form of that word (va'etchanan) only shows up in one other place in the Torah - with Joseph. What do these two moments come to teach us about yearning for things we may never get? Why is it important that we articulate those desires anyway?

The Dust and the Stars - Rabbinic Intern Jacob Schatz

July 19, 2026

The book of Deuteronomy has begun, and our people are as numerous as the stars in the sky. But Moses cries out, “Eikhah!” The famous heart-broken “how” that foreshadows the tragedies of Tisha B’Av. What mournful message does Moses see in the stars? And what, instead, can we learn from the dust?

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