IKAR Podcasts

We must never, ever doubt that a better future is possible. Haye Sarah 5787 – November 7, 2026

Source sheet:file:///Users/vera/Downloads/Before%20They%20Call,%20I%20Will%20Answer%20-%20Parshat%20Hayyei%20Sarah.pdf This is a recording of the Weekly Parashah - Rabbi David Kasher's Torah study class co-sponsored by Hadar and IKAR. Please note that the first few minutes of this week's class were not recorded due to a technical issue. We apologize for the inconvenience.

As Israel navigates an uncertain political moment, the question of who belongs—and who gets to shape the country's future—is deeply consequential. Through an exploration of Israel's political landscape and the ancient story of Isaac and Yishmael, we consider the dangers of zero-sum thinking and what it might take to imagine a shared future for Jews and Arabs in Israel.

Source Sheets + Learn More: https://ikar.org/events/1st-session-10-28-26-of-5787-prophecy-politics-in-the-age-of-miracles-a-tanakh-beit-midrash/ The sudden rise of Elijah marks a major shift in the leadership of Israel, from the King to the Prophet. This transition raises all the thorny questions about the relationship between religion and politics that we continue to grapple with today. Fire from heaven, resurrections, sea-splitting, and more – come study some of the wildest, most riveting stories in all of Tanakh (the Hebrew Bible) in a monthly Beit Midrash led by Rabbis David Kasher, Sharon Brous, and Morris Panitz.

Source sheet: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hlpqp0BKeHkCuogEfSPAeN6BG_EsFr0cQUnJxn5RZiA/edit?usp=sharing This is a recording of the Weekly Parashah - Rabbi David Kasher's Torah study class co-sponsored by Hadar and IKAR. Please note that the first few minutes of this week's class were not recorded due to a technical issue. We apologize for the inconvenience.

This week we are introduced to a tree - the Terebinth of Moreh. A tree that only shows up again once at the end of the Torah. What is there for us to learn from these instances about time passing and about fighting for a future you will not live to see?

IKARite Barry Michels is joined by Rabbi Morris Panitz for a discussion on his new book, Ahead of All Parting: On Learning to Live with an Open Heart, a memoir about how his journey with Lewy body dementia and Alzheimer's disease led him to a spiritual, emotional, and creative transformation.

Source sheet: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Nfl-fSyOCyo0dyD8X417K9lBUu56LepJ/view?usp=sharing This is a recording of the Weekly Parashah - Rabbi David Kasher's Torah study class co-sponsored by Hadar and IKAR. Please note that the first few minutes of this week's class were not recorded due to a technical issue. We apologize for the inconvenience.

Dr. Shoshan Haran & Rabbi Sharon Brous in conversation. Her life's work was met with unimaginable tragedy on Oct. 7, 2023, when she was kidnapped from Kibbutz Be'eri and held hostage in Gaza for fifty days alongside her daughter and grandchildren. Despite the murder of her husband and close family members during the attack, Dr. Shoshan Haran has emerged as a powerful global witness. In her book, Mission in Captivity: One Woman's Struggle to Survive and Save Her Family in Gaza, she shares a profound story of survival and resilience that transcends politics.

Unique among all ancient literature, the Torah rejects a world constrained by rigid cause and effect, manifest by honor, affront and appeasement, instead inviting us into a cosmos of freedom and choice, which makes possible apology, forgiveness, and repentance.