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Jennifer Krause
Rabbi; Co-Author, Dare to Matter
Jennifer Krause is a rabbi and writer. She co-founded and served as first rabbi of the New Shul in Manhattan and was the first woman High Holidays rabbi at the 92nd Street Y in its 145-year history. Krause is co-author of Dare to Matter: Your Path to Making a Difference Now and author of The Answer: Making Sense of Life, One Question at a Time. Her writing and commentary have been featured in Newsweek, The New York Times, Huffington Post, The Daily Beast, TIME.com, O Magazine, O’s Big Book of Happiness, and O’s Little Guide to Finding Your True Purpose. She’s a member of the Council on Foreign Relations Religion and Foreign Policy Initiative.
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We all want to make the world a better place, but with busy, demanding lives, most of us struggle with the where, when, and how. And in a world awash in need, it’s easy to giv...
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Although death is every bit as much a part of life as birth, we pretend it isn’t there. Perhaps it’s time that changed. The soon-to-be released HBO documentary Alternate Endin...