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Jumping into Hurricane Harvey

he heard of the devastation wrought on Houston in August by Hurricane Harvey, Rabbi Yossi Serebryanski of Denver reacted in a way probably shared by many. “I was stuck in this odd place that I find myself in when something so huge happens and I am not there and helpless to do anything about it,” the rabbi who leads Chabad of South Denver told the Intermountain Jewish News last week. “So I can either be glued to the computer waiting for the AP to update the same story five times, or to totally disassociate myself from it and just walk away. Both are not healthy. It was going to drive me crazy to follow it or make me insensitive not to follow it.” A colleague […]
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