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If you cross Queens Boulevard and head down 112th Street, you’ll pass a Reform temple, the Temple Sinai, a modern building with a small plaque by the front door. The plaque commemorates a piece of Forest Hills history: on that site once stood the home of one of the most celebrated women in America: Helen…

When I was growing up in Maryland, we’d often go to visit my grandmother, who lived in a little New Jersey town called Pitman, near Camden. Along the way, we’d usually pull in to a rest stop on I-95 that was just about the halfway point: The Maryland House. I think it’s still there. And…

In the late ‘60s and early ‘70s the President of CBS News was a colorful and very gifted man by the name of Richard Salant. By the time I’d arrived at CBS in the early ‘80s, he was long gone, but his leadership was legendary. And someone once shared with me a favorite Salant quote.…

A true story: a few years ago, I was serving as a Eucharistic Minister on Ash Wednesday, and I stood over there during communion, holding the chalice filled with the Precious Blood. A man came up to me, and I was about to offer him the cup when he waved it away. “I just have…
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