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JL;DR SUMMARY Rabbi Naftali Rabinowitz serves as the Jewish chaplain at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, a role deeply connected to his personal history as a former patient there due to his childhood spina bifida condition. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Baltimore, Maryland, United States
"When Rabbi Naftali Rabinowitz became the Jewish chaplain at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, it was both the closing of a circle and the opening of new doors."
Jerusalem, Israel
"As a two-month-old, Naftali went daily to Alyn Hospital in Jerusalem for PT, OT, hydrotherapy, and more, eventually reaching most of his normal milestones."
Meah Shearim, Jerusalem, Israel
"They run the gamut from those who say their dad is Jewish to patients who live in Meah Shearim and Bnei Brak."
Bnei Brak, Tel Aviv District, Israel
"They run the gamut from those who say their dad is Jewish to patients who live in Meah Shearim and Bnei Brak."
Israel
"I knew I could help younger patients with their struggles When Rabbi Naftali Rabinowitz became the Jewish chaplain at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, it was both the closing of a circle and the opening of new doors. Born with spina bifida, as a child he traveled from Eretz Yisrael with his parents to receive life-altering treatment at the very medical center where hes now employed."
Brooklyn, New York, United States
"Rabbi pinchos rabinowitz, Naftalis father, was born and grew up in Brooklyn, where he learned in the Bobover yeshivah and then in Eretz Yisrael, after his parents made aliyah in the 1980s."
Stamford, Connecticut, United States
"This past winter, we made a shabbaton in a hotel in Stamford, Connecticut."
Mexico
"They want to see those of us who are success stories, who lead normal lives those of us who never gave up and kept going."

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