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IT’S 4am and I have been struggling to sleep all night owing to the pain of lying on the hard concrete floor, scratching bed bug bites and overcrowding in the cell. Now, some sleep is finally ...

Rabbi Yonatan Neril, a Stanford-educated environmentalist and author, traces his interest in ecology to the organic garden, orchard, and creek behind his childhood home in northern California.