This year’s most influential Rabbi in the United States according to Newsweek and the Daily Beast.

With many synagogues facing disaffected, declining membership Sharon Brous is energizing worship and community. IKAR, the come-as-you-are spiritual community that Brous, founded nearly a decade ago, has become a magnet for L.A.’s young, unaffiliated Jews. Brous, 39, shows that reaching this coveted cohort doesn’t mean skimping on substance. 
 
The innovative Ikar model: equal parts warmth, spirituality, intellectual rigor, and call to action.

Rabbi Brous works to make Jewish learning, ritual and community compelling and meaningful for all.  She was ordained by JTS in 2001. This year, Rabbi Brous was recognized as the most influential Rabbi in the United States by Newsweek and the Daily Beast, and as one of the Forward’s 50 most influential American Jews. 
 
She sits on the faculty of the Hartman Institute-North America, Wexner Heritage and REBOOT, and serves on the board of Teruah-The Rabbinic Call to Human Rights, is a rabbinic advisor to American Jewish World Service and Bend the Arc.