2024 Sermons
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Looking Long (November 9, 2024)
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Hospitality of The Heart: In Memory of Paul Mendes-Flohr, z”l (October 26, 2024)
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Lt. Nathan Baskind, z"l (October 12, 2024)
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Shattered Vessels (October 12, 2024)
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Pardon Me (October 5, 2024)
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A Time of Testing (October 3, 2024)
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Entering a Synagogue (October 2, 2024)
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The Pull of the Land (September 28, 2024)
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Today and the Day After (September 21, 2024)
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The Shards we Carry (June 13, 2024)
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Double V (June 1, 2024)
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Time to Engage (May 18, 2024)
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A Free People in Our Land (May 11, 2024)
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A Seder of Vigilance and Empathy (April 20,2024)
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Let's Dialogue (March 30, 2024)
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For Such a Time As This (March 9, 2024)
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The Day After (March 2, 2024)
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Breathe... and Breathe Again (February 10, 2024)
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WWMLKS? (January 13, 2024)
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Go Blue!!! (January 6, 2024)
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2023 Sermons
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Rabbi Dr. David Ellenson, z"l (December 16, 2023)
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Rattled, Raw, and Resilient (December 9, 2023)
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A Call to Action (November 18, 2023)
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Coping and Hoping (November 11, 2023)
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The Great Awakening (October 28, 2023)
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Israel's Just War (October 21, 2023)
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Moral Clarity (October 14, 2023)
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To Save a Life (October 13, 2023)
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Keep Moving (September 25, 2023)
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Israel at War... with Itself (September 25, 2023)
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Judgement and Mercy (September 25, 2023)
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Return or Renewal (September 23, 2023)
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Missing Pieces (September 16, 2023)
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Be a Guest (June 10, 2023)
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A Father's Blessing (June 3, 2023)
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Facing History (May 20, 2023)
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Teens: A Mental Health Emergency (May 13, 2023)
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Love Your Neighbor as Yourself (April 29, 2023)
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To a Non-ZIonist Gen Z-er (April 23, 2023)
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Take Me Out to the Seder (April 6, 2023)
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The Story of Us (April 1, 2024)
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Nightmare Dressed Like a Daydream (March 4, 2023)
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Fearless (February 4, 2023)
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Invisible String (January 21, 2023)
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Heschel (January 14, 2023)
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2022 Sermons
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Kahane Lives (December 17, 2022)
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Intermarriage Rising (November 19, 2022)
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Kanye and Kyrie (November 5, 2022)
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Would've, Could've, Should've (October 29, 2022)
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The Last Letter (October 17, 2022)
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Kissinger on Moses (October 8, 2022)
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Postcards (October 5, 2022)
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To Honor and Revere (October 4, 2022)
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Hezrl and Me (September 26, 2022)
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The Truths We Hold Dear (September 17, 2022)
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Lost and Found (September 10, 2022)
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Keeping Pace (June 11, 2022)
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Rights and Obligations (June 4, 2022)
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Holy Living (May 7, 2022)
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Holocaust Memory (April 30, 2022)
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To Sign or Not To Sign (April 16, 2022)
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The Pipeline Problem (April 2, 2022)
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Heartbreaking, Inspiring, and Complicated (March 19, 2022)
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Our Esther Moment (March 5, 2022)
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Amnesty, Israel, Apartheid (February 5, 2022)
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Teyku (January 22, 2022)
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Stride Toward Freedom (January 15, 2022)
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2021 Sermons
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Father and Son (December 4, 2021)
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Gender, Intermarriage, and Jewish Identity (November 20, 2021)
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Parents Weekend (November 6, 2021)
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Rebel Without a Cause (October 16, 2021)
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Purple Rain (October 2, 2021)
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Why Do We Say Kaddish (September 28, 2021)
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After the Fast (September 18, 2021)
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Remember... For Life (September 10, 2021)
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The Blink of an Eye (September 7, 2021)
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Apples for Rosh Hashanah (September 6, 2021)
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From Pandemic to Purpose (June 19, 2021)
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Fault Lines (June 5, 2021)
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Showing Up for Israel (May 22, 2021)
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Wipe Your Tears (May 8, 2021)
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The Grammar of Jewish Living (May 1, 2021)
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To Life! (April 17, 2021)
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As Difficult as Splitting the Sea (April 6, 2021)
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Kavod Shabbat in COVID (March 13, 2021)
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Don't Make Me Choose (March 6, 2021)
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From Within or Without? Leadership Lessons from Esther (February 20, 2021)
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We're No Angels - in Memory of Rabbi Dr. Abraham Twerski Z"l (February 6, 2021)
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Exodus in America (January 23, 2021)
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No Surprise (January 9)
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2020 Sermons
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Never Alone (Decembet 19, 2020)
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Do You Believe in Miracles? (December 5, 2020)
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Oh, Brother! (November 1, 2020)
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The Sancho Question (November 14, 2020)
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This Too Shall Pass (October 31, 2020)
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Let It Rain (October 10, 2020)
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A Pause to Remember (October 10, 2020)
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Love in a Place of Loss (September 28, 2020)
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Ask Not (September 20, 2020)
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Let There Be Reconstruction (September 19, 2020)
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A Treasury of Life (September 18, 2020)
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Ya Gotta Believe (September 12, 2020)
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First Base on Race (July 11, 2020)
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Speaking Privately (June 20, 2020)
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That's My Bible (June 6, 2020)
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To Begin Again (May 30, 2020)
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Chancellor to Chancellor (May 16, 2020)
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Dreams Deferred (May 9, 2020)
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Like I Told You, It's an Honor (May 2, 2020)
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The Life and Legacy of Waldemar M.W. Haffkine (April 25, 2020)
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On Leadership (April 18, 2020)
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Social Solidarity... Not Distancing (April 11, 2020)
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The Question of Suffering (April 10, 2020)
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The Next Right Thing (March 28, 2020)
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Purim in the Time of the Coronavirus (March 7, 2020)
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Let There Be Disruption (February 29, 2020)
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Standing at Sinai (February 20, 2020)
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Making Sense of our Moment (February 8, 2020)
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Time to Step Up and March (January 4, 2020)
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2019 Sermons
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Bystanders and Upstanders (November 16, 2019)
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The Anxiety of Influence (November 2, 2019)
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#OneYearLater (October 26, 2019)
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Jonah's Sukkah (October 19, 2019)
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The Parochet (October 9, 2019)
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Do a Mitzvah (October 8, 2019)
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If Not Now, Then When? (September 30, 2019)
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Angels in Hardhats (September 29, 2019)
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Say It Ain't So, Joe (September 28, 2019)
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Something to Say (September 7, 2019)
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A Sense of Decency (September 9, 2019)
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Oy (June 8, 2019)
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You're Never Off The Court (May 31, 2019)
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What We Talk About When We Talk About Israel (May 17, 2019)
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Twenty Years A Rabbi (May 10, 2019)
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Messiah's Meal (April 26, 2019)
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Isaac Mayer Wise (April 5, 2019)
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Why We Laugh (March 15, 2019)
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Varieties of Never Again (March 9, 2019)
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Neither Early Nor Late (February 9, 2019)
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The Great Schism (January 12, 2019)
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Hardened Hearts (January 5, 2019)
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2018 Sermons
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Hidden Goblets (December 15, 2018)
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One-Sixtieth (December 1, 2018)
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Excelsior! (November 15, 2018)
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#PittsburghStrong (November 2, 2018)
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Stand! (October 12, 2018)
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A Time To Speak (September 28, 2018)
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What Was Missing from the Embassy Ceremonies (May 14, 2018)
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Climb Every Mountain (March 3, 2018)
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Oy Jerusalem (January 20, 2018)
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Rabbi Neil Gillman, z"l (January 6, 2018)
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2017 Sermons
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Don't let the Light Go Out (December 9, 2017)
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Survival or Renewal (November 11, 2017)
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Time for a Jewish Reformation (October 27, 2017)
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To Begin Again (October 13, 2017)
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Build Yourself A Hut (October 6, 2017)
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The Ring of Forgiveness (September 30, 2017)
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All That You Leave Behind (September 30, 2017)
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The Memories We Share (September 29, 2017)
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The Belly of the Whale (September 20, 2017)
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From Generation to Generation (September 19, 2017)
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Third Annual Leadership Workshop - Mission Alignment (May 23, 2017)
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For The Sake Of Zion (May 12, 2017)
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One Little Goat (April 17, 2017)
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Taking the Plunge (March 24, 2017)
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To Officiate Or Not To Officiate (March 11, 2017)
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Principles, Not Politics (February 4, 2017)
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Bring Them Close (January 14, 2017)
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