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Rabbi Shmuly Yanklowitz

Rabbi Shmuly Yanklowitz

Rabbi Dr. Shmuly Yanklowitz is the president an dean of the Valley Beit Midrash (Jewish pluralistic adult learning and leadership), the founder and president of Uri L’Tzedek (Jewish Social Justice), the founder and CEO of Shamayim (Jewish animal advocacy), the founder and president of YATOM (Jewish foster and adoption network) and the author of 18 books on Jewish ethics. Newsweek named him one of the top 50 rabbis in America in 2013 and the Forward named him one of the 50 most influential Jews in 2016. The opinions expressed here do not represent any organizations he is affiliated with.

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Posted inReligion

Six spiritual prescriptions for coronavirus

Rabbi Shmuly Yanklowitz by Rabbi Shmuly Yanklowitz March 12, 2020

I am not a medical professional, an epidemiologist or an expert on pandemics. I leave the serious information in those important fields for the professionals who have the appropriate training […]

Rabbi Samantha Kahn from InterfaithFamily Bay Area officiates a wedding (Photo/Courtesy InterfaithFamily)
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Intermarried Jews are not a ‘second Holocaust,’ regardless of what any Israeli politician says

Rabbi Shmuly Yanklowitz by Rabbi Shmuly Yanklowitz July 12, 2019July 12, 2019
Factory farmed pigs in pens so small they cannot turn around (Photo/Flickr-Farm Sanctuary CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
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Prop 12: A sliver of freedom for factory-farmed animals

Rabbi Shmuly Yanklowitz by Rabbi Shmuly Yanklowitz October 5, 2018October 5, 2018

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