Since 2015, IKAR has been holding services in the Shalhevet High School gymnasium. Photo courtesy of IKAR After operating for nearly 15 years in temporary rental spaces, IKAR has purchased a permanent ...

“Who can ignore that little science experiment you call IKAR?” says Rabbi David Wolpe in an online video “roast” of one of Los Angeles’ most un-orthodox Jewish congregations and its sometimes ...

IKAR’s Hebrew school program, Limudim, is held on Tuesdays and Saturdays and will take place after the Shalhevet school day is over. As for parking, Balaban said that the amount of parking spaces ...

The Los Angeles congregation Ikar likes to break the unspoken rules of American Judaism. It does not call itself Conservative, Orthodox or Reform. It doesn’t even call itself a synagogue, because it ...

Here’s what I wrote about Rabbi Sharon Brous back in 2004, for that year’s Forward 50 list: If Conservative Judaism ever reclaims its status as the country’s largest Jewish denomination, it will be in ...

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