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Female rabbi featured on Time Magazine cover

(JTA) – Los  Angeles Rabbi Sharon Brous is among a group of Americans of different faiths featured on Time Magazine’s latest cover. The cover, released last week, is based on a 1943 painting by Norman Rockwell titled “Freedom of Worship.” The painting, part of a series depicting the “Four Freedoms” articulated by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, depicts people of different faiths in prayer. Brous is shown wearing a dark blue tallit. Brous is the founder and senior rabbi of Ikar, an unaffiliated congregation in Los Angeles. The Conservative-ordained rabbi has gained prominence due to her political activism, and in 2013 she blessed President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden at the Inaugural Prayer Service. In 2013, Newsweek and Daily Beast named her among the country’s top rabbis. Ikar’s website linked to the magazine cover with a quote from Brous. “An honor to stand with clergy from all faiths in this beautiful reimagination of Norman Rockwell’s Freedom of Worship,” she said. “This is America’s next chapter: it is fierce, gorgeous, and fair. It is built on justice and mercy and it makes room for all of us.”

CAP: Rabbi Sharon Brous, wearing a blue tallit, can be seen on Time Magazine’s latest cover. (JTA)

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