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The devastating Southern California wildfires in early 2025 destroyed hundreds of residences and businesses.  Lives were upended with the rebuilding for some  still underway.  Today’s guest is Rabbi Daniel Sher, who along with his fellow clergy and congregants at Kehillat Israel in Pacific Palisades saw his family destroyed by the flames.  Miraculously, the synagogue was spared any damage and has served as an oasis for those in need, both materially and spiritually.  Rabbi Sher shares with us the impact of traumatic loss and how resilience and hope is helping his family and so many others cope.

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Carl Stevens is an award winning radio journalist and a colleague of mine at WBZ, Boston’s top rated news station.  Carl has covered stories small and large, local and international and always with professionalism, integrity and empathy.   Carl is also a talented poet whose works are frequently part of his  broadcasts, poems that are witty, moving and always in perfect rhyme scheme.   Meet a veteran radio personality, a true man of letters,  who ranks as one of my favorite storytellers!