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Aug 2015
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Rabbi Rami Shapiro

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[powerpress] This week we talk to Rabbi Rami Shapiro about perennial wisdomRabbi Rami Shapiro is an award-winning author, poet, essayist, and educator whose poems have been anthologized in over a dozen volumes, and whose prayers are used in prayer books around the world. Rami received rabbinical ordination from the Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Re ... Show More
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