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Though Robin Williams and I were friendly for nearly three decades, we were never really friends. (Nor did we ever have a professional relationship.) Though he recognized me whenever we met, and we invariably kibitzed as if we had never parted, I doubt if he remembered my name, though he always pretended that he did. […]

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The campers and staff of Camp Ramah in Nyack danced with the crazed enthusiasm of people who had just won a $100 million jackpot. It was just past 9 a.m., the last Friday of camp in Rockland County, New York, and the Hebrew song playing was fittingly called “Lo Normali.” I could not help but […]

A New York City health ordinance that requires parents to give written permission before ritual circumcisers can carry out the practice of oral suction might be unconstitutional, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals said in a ruling handed down on Friday, according to the Jerusalem Post. The court handed the constitutional challenge back to a […]

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