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The Nathan Cummings Foundation, May, 2008
Visioning Justice and the American Jewish Community
By Shifra Bronznick and Didi Goldenhar
Newsweek, April 21, 2008
How hot is your rabbi?
By Lisa Miller
Newsweek, April 21, 2008
Top 25 Pulpit Rabbis in America
By Michael Lynton, Gary Ginsberg, and Jay Sanderson
Newsweek, April 21, 2008
Top 50 Influential Rabbis in America
By Michael Lynton, Gary Ginsberg, and Jay Sanderson
The Jewish Journal, April 11, 2008
Will L.A. top rabbis make 'Top Rabbi' list -- again?
By Amy Klein, Religion Editor
The Jewish Journal, March 3, 2008
Purimpalooza people party like its 500 B.C.E. +/- (video)
By Danielle Berrin, Circuit Editor
Ha'aretz, December 1, 2007
Amazingly, the new Jews actually love their Shabbat services
By Shmuel Rosner
My Urban Kvetch, November 30, 2007
Emergent Jewish Communities Study Released
By Esther Kustanowitz
Jewish Telegraphic Agency, November 30, 2007
Minyan study: Jews pray on own terms
By Sue Fishkoff
Synagogue 3000 & Mechon Hadar, November 30, 2007
EMERGENT JEWISH COMMUNITIES and their PARTICIPANTS:
Preliminary Findings from the 2007 National Spiritual Communities Study
Steven M. Cohen, J. Shawn Landres, Elie Kaunfer, and Michelle Shain
Jspot, November 28, 2007
What Defines the New Minyan Movement?
By Jeremy Burton
New York Times, November 28, 2007
Challenging Tradition, Young Jews Worship on Their Terms
By Neela Banerjee
The Forward, November 7, 2007
Kosher Fashion in L.A.
By Rebecca Spence
The Jewish Journal, November 7, 2007
Rags for richies, LOL (video)
By Danielle Berrin
Jewish Journal, November 2, 2007
A pioneering minyan celebrates double chai birthday
By Amy Klein, Religion Editor
Jewish Journal, October 12, 2007
Shul tripping -- a nostalgic hippie tours the alternative scene
By Roberto Loiederman, Contributing Writer
Slingshot, October, 2007
IKAR has been included (for the third year in a row) in this year's "Slingshot, A Resource Guide to Jewish Innovation," an annual compilation of the 50 most inspiring and innovative organizations, projects, and programs in the North American Jewish community today published by The Charles and Andrea Bronfman Philanthopies.
Hebrew College Currents, September, 2007
From Hollywood to Hebrew College
IKAR's own Jessica Kate Meyer is profled in Hebrew College's monthly publication
Speaking of Faith, September 6, 2007
Days of Awe: One Voice in a Jewish Spiritual Renaissance
Krista Tippett interviews Rabbi Sharon Brous on the Days of Awe
The Jewish Journal, August 17, 2007
Rethinking -- and revitalizing -- religious schools
by Julie Gruenbaum Fax
The Calendar Girls (L.A. Jewish Journal bloggers), June 19, 2007
Evening at IKAR
by Dikla Kadosh & Danielle Berrin
Haaretz, June 11, 2007
Rosner's Guest: Rabbi Sharon Brous
by Shmuel Rosner
Jewish Telegraphic Agency, May 15, 2007
Traditionalists have nothing to fear
from creative ways of young Jews
by Ari Kelman
21/64 (The Andrea and Charles Bronfman Philanthropies), May 15, 2007
THE CONTINUITY OF DISCONTINUITY - How Young Jews Are Connecting, Creating, and Organizing Their Own Jewish Lives
by Steven M. Cohen and Ari Kelman
Jewish Telegraphic Agency, April 05, 2007
Conversion for those raised Jewish?
Rabbis address patrilineal problem
by Sue Fishkoff
Jewish Telegraphic Agency, February 15, 2007
New congregations see 'Net results in
communication and cost savings
by Sue Fishkoff
Jewish Journal, January 26, 2007
Webb's progressive center gift inspired by
family's future
by Naomi Glauberman
Jewish Woman Magazine, Winter, 2006
The Power of One: For women, the secret of leadership means
discovering your own path and then bringing others along.
by Rahel Musleah
Jewish Journal, December 12, 2006
Social Justice gets new address on Pico
by Amy Klein
The Forward, November 12, 2006
Lead
Players on a Global Stage
Rabbi Sharon Brous Named to Forward 50
(for the third year in a row!)
Jewish Telegraphic Agency, September 14, 2006
Directory of
niche charities targets young philanthropists
by Jacob Berkman
Jewish Journal, March 24-30
Wandering Jew - Upside Down
by Amy Klein
Judaism, Summer/Fall 2005
Joy and
Jeopardy
by Rabbi Sharon Brous
JTSfuture.org hosted by Sh'ma, March 15, 2006
Heshbon HaNefesh (blogpost)
by Rabbi Sharon Brous
Jewish Journal, January 26, 2006
Emergent Jews: Worshippers create unconventional
communities unbound by tradition to reinvigorate Judaism.
by Sarah Price Brown
Religion-Outside-The-Box, December 5, 2005
2005 Religion-Outside-The-Box Awards
Rabbi Sharon Brous recieves 2005 Religion-Outside-The-Box
Award
The Forward, November 11, 2005
Lead
Players on a Global Stage
Rabbi Sharon Brous Named to Forward 50
The Los Angeles Times, October 23, 2005
Redemption, God, a Crip and the 'Rapture
index'
by Diane Winston, Knight chair of media and religion at USC
The Jewish Journal, October 7, 2005
In Search of a Leader - Can anyone save Conservative
Judaism from itself?
by Amy Klein, Religion Editor
The Jewish Week, October 7, 2005
Paying For Praying
by Debra Nussbaum Cohen
Ynetnews (English-language website from Yedioth Group),
September 25, 2005
L.A. shul with a twist
quotes from IKAR HHD FAQs
CONTACT, The Journal of the Jewish Life Network/Steinhardt
Foundation, Summer 2005
Moving
Beyond the Labels: A Conversation With Rabbi Sharon Brous
interviewed by Eli Valley
Jewish Journal, August 12, 2005 2005
Marking Tisha B'Av Takes Many Forms
by Jane Ulman
JTA, July 15, 2005
Alternative ways to mark Tisha B'Av
by Jane Ulman
JTA, July 15, 2005
New guidebook serves as a road map to innovation in
the Jewish community
by Rachel Pomerance
JTA, June 5, 2005
Shavuot may not be Passover, but it's become a
little bit hip
by Sue Fishkoff
The Jewish Week, April 14, 2005
Y Be Jewish?
by Steve Lipman
Columbia College Today, May, 2005
Renewing American Judaism at the Root
by J. Shawn Landres
Jewish Journal, January 20, 2005
Parashat B'Shalach Commentary
by Rabbi Sharon Brous
Shma, December, 2004
One Car with Fire in its Belly
by Rabbi Sharon Brous
The Forward, November 12, 2004
Lead Players on a Global Stage
Rabbi Sharon Brous Named to Forward 50
The Providence Phoenix, October 1 - 7, 2004
Awe, shucks: Stepping out of the trappings of Stealth
Jew and into a yarmulke for a few days
by Alan Olifson
Jewish Journal, September 9, 2004
Masters Of Return: Becoming Religious Changes
People's Lives
by Julie Gruenbaum Fax, Religion Editor
Jewish Journal, August 19, 2004
New Prayer Communities Seek Spiritual High
by Jane Ulman, Contributing Writer
IKAR is thrilled to announce that we've been included in this year's "
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