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The following piece was written by Rabbi Menachem Katz, who serves as The Aleph Institute’s Director of Military and Prison Outreach. He grew up in Miami Beach, Florida, and graduated from Oholei Torah in 1992. Two years later, he was ordained by Rabbi Farkash and started working for Aleph shortly thereafter I had the opportunity […]
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*Mrs. Lesser, my eleventh grade English and Journalism teacher who also made me editor of the school newspaper, would be shaking her head in disbelief if she were to be reading this blog. “An asterisk belongs at the bottom of your paper,” she explained. But then again, she never wrote a blog or texted or
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I did some checking, not much else to do during a pandemic. According to the US Department of Transportation, there are about 5,800 train-car crashes each year in the United States, most of which occur at railroad crossings. These accidents will cause 600 deaths and injure about 2,300. I dug a bit deeper. A 150-car freight train traveling 50 miles per hour will take
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Social media feuds happen all the time. Especially since the forty-fifth president/reality television and game show host Donald Trump took over the West Wing. “He needs to tweet like we need to eat,” Kellyanne Conway, his White House counselor, said in an interview. In a presidency unlike any other, where Mr. Trump wakes to Twitter,
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Let’s take a break from the coronavirus for a few moments. Let’s go back to everyone’s favorite topic after a mass shooting. Do you know what’s great about COVID-19? With everybody locked up, there have been two months of no school or workplace or hospital or movie theater shootings. Nothing has been open. Oy vey!
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