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The central character in the newest novel by Thane Rosenbaum — lawyer, law professor, author, moderator of an annual discussion series at the 92nd Street Y — is a 12-year-old daughter of divorced parents who shuttles between mother and father via the Brooklyn Bridge. The granddaughter of a Holocaust survivor, she learns about her grandmother’s […]

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In response to Joseph C. Kaplan’s letter on the use of Title VI (May 11), some of his claims must be corrected. The Zionist Organization of America has never used Title VI to try to censor or suppress free speech, nor would we. We have filed two cases under Title VI. In both, Jewish students […]

A mother’s offhand comment here about the need for a place for Jewish children with autism has, 15 years later, spurred an international research center. In 1997, the mother of two young special-needs children who lives in the New York area told Joshua Weinstein, a veteran educator with a Ph.D. in special education who was […]

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