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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 534

IKAR

Beach front homes are destroyed by the Palisades Fire in Malibu, California, January 8, 2025. (Mark J. Terrill/AP)
January 9, 2025, 12:27 pm
Devastated Jewish communities rally to support members as California wildfires rage on
Leaders strive to bring comfort as many families lose homes; among wider population, five die, 1,900 buildings destroyed; some hydrants run dry as emergency services overwhelmed
By Kelly Hartog and Agencies
Todd Berman
January 3, 2018, 3:14 pm
Todd Berman
Don’t rush to say Kaddish for non-Orthodox Judaism
The American progressive denominations are developing engaging programs; we Orthodox should learn from them
A Hanukkah celebration at The Kitchen in San Francisco on December 9, 2015. (Q Lam)
February 10, 2016, 6:05 am
Thriving US indie communities roll up their sleeves to ‘do’ Judaism
Jewish Emergent Network looks to lift American Jews out of demographic free fall and bring them back into the fold
By Ben Harris
Rabbi Rachel Nussbaum, Kavana (Andy Ahlstrom/JTA)
December 17, 2014, 1:41 am
Female rabbis on the forefront of Jewish renewal
Are women-led pioneering prayer communities IKAR and Nashuva spawning a new movement?
By Anthony Weiss
"ABOLISH CHILD SLAVERY!!" in English and Yiddish, probably taken during May 1, 1909 labor parade in New York City. Jewish American women have often been at the forefront of social change. (Photo credit: George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress).
June 4, 2013, 4:12 pm
Trapped under America’s Jewish glass ceiling
Of the top 20 highest-paid Jewish professionals in the US, zero are women
By Ben Zehavi
Rabbi Sharon Brous of the IKAR congregation in Los Angeles. (Donovan Marks/Washington National Cathedral via JTA)
January 29, 2013, 7:00 pm
Rabbis tweaked inaugural readings to make them ‘Jewier’
White House was okay with last-minute changes added by Jewish clergy at service after Obama’s swearing-in
By Ron Kampeas
Tzvi Graetz
January 29, 2013, 5:14 pm
Tzvi Graetz
I shook the hand that blessed Barack Obama
In the U.S., she’s a leading rabbi with a flourishing congregation. In Israel, she’s officially nothing.
Hillel Tigay's new album, “Judeo,” in Hebrew and Aramaic, is based on his interpretation of what music may have sounded like in ancient Israel. (Courtesy of Ikar Music Lab/PR via JTA)
November 23, 2012, 6:11 pm
New album attempts to recapture 2,000-year-old sounds from the Temple
In ‘Judeo,’ LA cantor Hillel Tigay mixes music from the Bible with modern influences such as Peter Gabriel
By Rebecca Spence
Sharon Brous
November 20, 2012, 11:37 am
Sharon Brous
Lowering the bar: a reckless public assault
Gordis’s accusations that I betrayed Israel are shameful
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