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Rabbi David Jaffe is a leading figure in the contemporary renewal of the Musar movement, a Jewish ethical movement. He is the author of Changing the World from the Inside Out: A Jewish Approach to Personal and Social Change, for which he was awarded the Jewish Book Council’s Myra H. Kraft Memorial Award in Contemporary Jewish Life and Practice in 2016. Jaffe is also a political activist who has been noted for his work in encouraging better funding for public schools in Massachusetts.

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1. Kress, JS (2017). "Learning from a mussar-based initiative in a community day school". Journal of Jewish Education. 83 (2): 133–150. doi:10.1080/15244113.2017.1307053. S2CID 148604876.
2. Bolton-Fasman, Judy. "A National Jewish Book Award Winner on How to Cultivate a Spiritual Life". JewishBoston. Retrieved 2019-05-28.
3. "Past Winners". Jewish Book Council. Retrieved 2020-01-19.
4. "Thousands rally for education funding". The Bay State Banner. 2019-05-17. Retrieved 2019-05-28.
5. "Frustrated With Beacon Hill, School Funding Supporters Fill Boston Common In Protest". News. 2019-05-17. Retrieved 2019-05-28.

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People	Prewar leaders Yisroel Salanter Simcha Zissel Ziv Yitzchak Blazer Nosson Tzvi Finkel Naftali Amsterdam Yosef Yozel Horwitz Yeruchom Levovitz Reuven Dov Dessler Eliezer Gordon Moshe Rosenstain Naftoli Trop Postwar leaders Eliyahu Eliezer Dessler Gershon Liebman Yechezkel Levenstein Chaim Leib Shmuelevitz Nosson Meir Wachtfogel Yechiel Yaakov Weinberg Shlomo Wolbe Contemporary thinkers Yechiel Perr Ira F. Stone Geoffrey Claussen Alan Morinis David Jaffe Hillel Goldberg
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