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Ari Plost is rabbi at Congregation B’nai Abraham, in Hagerstown, Maryland and president of the Hagerstown Area Religious Council.
Ari Plost is rabbi at Congregation B’nai Abraham, in Hagerstown, Maryland and president of the Hagerstown Area Religious Council.
Normally, my usual duties as a congregational rabbi have absolutely nothing to do with the provisioning of medical equipment. But these are extraordinary times. Our highest principle in Judaism is pikuach nefesh, “saving a life.” And what has kept me up at night throughout this crisis are these ventilators. Last week, a widely reported New…
It would have been far easier to say “yes.” As Jews, at this solemn time of Rosh Hashanah on behalf of American Jews at Washington’s National Cathedral, celebrating the inauguration of Donald Trump. Quite the honor, indeed, to be asked. When authority speaks, we are taught to listen. But we are also taught to listen…
