The Year Ahead – Continuing To Relentlessly Improve By Jeff Greenstein The Jewish High Holidays of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur just concluded and I thought more about their essence this year than ever before. I believe the holiday’s impact on me was a combination of my general sadness about the current state of the [...]
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