Thursday, December 13, 2007
New Progressive Religious Voices Podcast
Featured Interview: Rabbi Sharon BrousWelcome to Progressive Religious Voices, a podcast featuring progressive religious leaders who are moving beyond the culture wars and transforming American public life.
In this podcast, I talk with Rabbi Sharon Brous, founder of the vibrant IKAR Congregation in Los Angeles.
[Click here for Podcast Transcript - PDF]
About Rabbi Sharon Brous
Rabbi Sharon Brous is founder of the IKAR congregation in Los Angeles, a vibrant and innovative new spiritual community in Los Angeles. While completing her rabbinical training at Jewish Theological Seminary, Rabbi Brous also completed a Master's Degree in Religion and Human Rights at Columbia University. For the last three years (2005-2007), IKAR has been included in "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. From 2004-2006, Rabbi Brous was included the Jewish Forward’s “Forward 50,” a list of most influential voices embody “the spirit of Jewish action as it is emerging in America.” Since 2005, she has been a member of the Synagogue 3000 Leadership Network, a select national group of rabbis, cantors, and artists working to transform and revitalize American Jewish spiritual communities.
To hear more....Rabbi Sharon Brous is founder of the IKAR congregation in Los Angeles, a vibrant and innovative new spiritual community in Los Angeles. While completing her rabbinical training at Jewish Theological Seminary, Rabbi Brous also completed a Master's Degree in Religion and Human Rights at Columbia University. For the last three years (2005-2007), IKAR has been included in "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. From 2004-2006, Rabbi Brous was included the Jewish Forward’s “Forward 50,” a list of most influential voices embody “the spirit of Jewish action as it is emerging in America.” Since 2005, she has been a member of the Synagogue 3000 Leadership Network, a select national group of rabbis, cantors, and artists working to transform and revitalize American Jewish spiritual communities.
To hear more interviews with progressive religious leaders, you can visit our website at www.progressiveandreligious.org/interviews.html. You can listen online, or subscribe to this podcast (Check back soon--subscriptions available beginning January 2008) to hear the entire series of these hopeful interviews that we will feature throughout 2008. You can also read more about the growing progressive religious movement in my forthcoming book, Progressive & Religious: How Christian, Jewish, Muslim, and Buddhist Leaders are Moving Beyond the Culture Wars and Transforming American Public Life, which will be available summer 2008 from Rowman & Littlefield Publishers and in bookstores nationwide.
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Beautifully crafted interview. No doubt inspiring. I think I'll listen to it daily. The one day to dream, the six days to enter the darkness--a helpful perspective.
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