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In our first battle with Amalek - the perennial enemy of the Israelites that preys on the vulnerable - the Torah also gives us the tools to fight back. In this moment, we desperately need these tactics, strategy, and spiritual grounding for the fight ahead. It's going to take all of us. 

This is a recording from 1.28.2025 of Rabbi David Kasher's Weekly Parashah class, co-sponsored by Hadar and IKAR.

⁠Click here to read the source sheet.⁠⁠ This is a recording of Rabbi Morris Panitz's of For the Love of Learning. Every Tuesday morning, a new story from the Talmud. Taught by your rabbis in a monthly rotation, we’ll dig into the strange and compelling world of the Talmud, exploring the ways ancient dilemmas speak to modern questions. Join us in-person at the Event Space (coffee and nosh provided) or over Zoom (B.Y.O. nosh) for as many sessions as possible… your Tuesday will thank you.

Beth Oppenheim, the new CEO of HIAS, in conversation with Rabbi Jensen. why supporting immigrants and refugees feels both newly urgent and deeply familiar. As displacement and fear shape lives in our own neighborhoods, this conversation asks what it means to respond not only with memory, but with action.

When the nation falls under the spell of state terror, when we spiral from a politics of aspiration to one of capitulation, the people must rise up with love. This is the fight of our lives.

This is a recording from 1.21.2025 of Rabbi David Kasher's Weekly Parashah class, co-sponsored by Hadar and IKAR.

Guest hazzan Yoni Avi Battat and Sarah Bunin Benor in conversation at IKAR's Lunch & Learn from our Sephardi / Mizrahi Shabbat on January 17, 2026.

Click here to read the source sheet.⁠ This is a recording of Rabbi Morris Panitz's of For the Love of Learning. Every Tuesday morning, a new story from the Talmud. Taught by your rabbis in a monthly rotation, we’ll dig into the strange and compelling world of the Talmud, exploring the ways ancient dilemmas speak to modern questions. Join us in-person at the Event Space (coffee and nosh provided) or over Zoom (B.Y.O. nosh) for as many sessions as possible… your Tuesday will thank you.

The people of Iran are begging us to turn towards them, our hearts open to their pain. They deserve our solidarity and support, our identification with their struggle. Because human life is precious. And we, who love life, must always be on the side of those who love life.

Click here to read the source sheet. This is a recording of Rabbi Sharon Brous's of For the Love of Learning. Every Tuesday morning, a new story from the Talmud. Taught by your rabbis in a monthly rotation, we’ll dig into the strange and compelling world of the Talmud, exploring the ways ancient dilemmas speak to modern questions. Join us in-person at the Event Space (coffee and nosh provided) or over Zoom (B.Y.O. nosh) for as many sessions as possible… your Tuesday will thank you.

This is a recording from 1.7.2025 of Rabbi David Kasher's Weekly Parashah class, co-sponsored by Hadar and IKAR.

A seemingly superfluous sidebar in our grand narrative in fact models what we most need to remember in a time of tyranny: There will emerge a vast moral vacuum. Step into it. Use the power you do have to muck up the machinery of injustice. Lean into faith. And remember that goodness, courage, and integrity are contagious. This is how we push back against the darkness. Parashat Shemot 5786

This is a recording of Rabbi Sharon Brous's of For the Love of Learning. Every Tuesday morning, a new story from the Talmud. Taught by your rabbis in a monthly rotation, we’ll dig into the strange and compelling world of the Talmud, exploring the ways ancient dilemmas speak to modern questions. Join us in-person at the Event Space (coffee and nosh provided) or over Zoom (B.Y.O. nosh) for as many sessions as possible… your Tuesday will thank you.

This is a recording from 12.31.2025 of Rabbi David Kasher's Weekly Parashah class, co-sponsored by Hadar and IKAR.

Jacob’s farewell address in Parashat VaYechi features a vision of a snake and a cry for Divine salvation. As our world backslides into fear, anger, violence, and deceit, we nonetheless find hope in self-transformation. By caring for the needy and welcoming the stranger, we preserve the legacy of B’nei Yisrael, and become partners with God in redeeming a broken world.