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The Buttenwieser Library, a 3,000-square-foot reading space and book collection on the second floor of the 92nd Street Y, closes down every year during August and reopens in September. But when it closes on July 31 this year, it won’t reopen — at least, not in its present form. In what appears to be a […]

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At last summer’s Olympic Games in Beijing, U.S. swimmer Jason Lezak was in the shadow of teammate Michael Phelps, despite Lezak’s record-breaking final leg in the 4×100 meter freestyle relay that kept alive Phelp’s quest for eight gold medals. At this summer’s Maccabiah Games in Israel, Lezak is in the spotlight. During the 18th rendition […]

Rabbi Burton Visotzky, professor of Midrash and interreligious studies at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, was on foreign but familiar ground recently. A veteran of interfaith discussions with Muslims around the world, he was among three rabbis — the others were Jack Moline of Alexandria, Va., and Gerald Serotta of Chevy Chase. Md. — […]

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