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Rabbi Hershel Schacter was a prominent American Rabbi with a distinguished career in the rabbinate and in public Jewish life. During World War II, he was a chaplain in the Third Army’s VIII Corps and was the first US Army Chaplain to enter and participate in the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp shortly after it had been

“Rafi, we have a problem.” Rafi could tell in Eli’s voice that something important had happened. It was Friday morning; a sizzling August day in Israel. Eli was the CEO of an Israeli hi-tech company that had been purchased several years earlier by a large American parent company. Rafi was the company’s VP of Technology

They warned me: Never set foot in Sh’chunat Hatikva. The so-called “Neighborhood of Hope” was anything but. It was notorious as the most dangerous neighborhood in Tel Aviv and the home of the leading crime bosses in Israel. But as a 20-year old, I figured I knew better. I was part of a group of volunteers

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