Rabbi Sharon Brous is a leading voice in reanimating religious life in America, working to develop a spiritual roadmap for soulful, multi-faith justice work in Los Angeles and around the country. Rabbi Brous is the senior and founding rabbi of IKAR which was started in 2004 and has become a model for Jewish revitalization in the US and beyond. She sits down with us to discuss what it means to be comfortable or uncomfortable in a religious community, what role religion plays in our political and personal lives, and the nature of faith. 

Aziza Hasan is the Executive Director of NewGround: A Muslim-Jewish Partnership for Change. In this episode we discuss Aziza's experience growing up in Jordan and moving to Kansas at the age of 17, her time in a Mennonite college, and what she has learned from her encounters with different faiths. 

In this episode we sit down with Alx Utterman, a spiritual healer and founder of The Universal Church of Baba's Kitchen. 

Trained in India in the disciplines of Reiki, healing and meditation, Alx sits down with us to talk about the journey that led her to studying in India for five years and her life as a healer. 

In this episode, we sit down with Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson, Dean of the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies in Los Angeles California. The two of them discuss the nature of life in the 21st century, the current political and ideological climate and how to find our way back. They discuss how science, religion, and spirituality can help lead us into a new era of cooperation. 

In his Yom Kippur sermon, Ben Goldstein talks about the distinction people make between spirituality and religion. This sermon contains a lot of the principles that we will explore throughout the episodes of our podcast.