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Elisha M. Prero

Oct 21, 2025, 9:47 AM

Like much of the Jewish world, our family sat glued to our screens in Chicago on the night of Hoshana Rabbah, holding our breath and hoping against hope that the remaining living hostages would be released. As the excitement...

Apr 18, 2018, 4:36 PM

Nuclear physicist squeezed time out of thin air

Richard Chasman, a frequent blogger for The Times of Israel, died last week. He was 83. I was his rabbi. The Talmud teaches that just as one person’s face differs from virtually all others, so do peoples’ personalities and the...

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Elisha Prero is Rabbi Emeritus of Young Israel of West Rogers Park, practices law with the Chicago firm Prero & Morgenstern, plays in the Jewish rock band, Even Sh'siyah (www.thewayjewsrock.com), and produces a regular YouTube drasha on the Torah portion of the week (@elishaprero2284).

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