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Clockwise, from top left: “A Christmas Carol” by Charles Dickens (Wikimedia Commons), “Lincoln in the Bardo” by George Saunders and “Frederick” by Leo Lionni (Penguin Random House)
Synagogue services, at least in my Conservative corner of the Jewish universe, tend to be long. And repetitive. And long.
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Rabbi Shira Stern of Marlboro, N.J., is a disaster spiritual care provider for the American Red Cross. (Courtesy of Stern)
Spiritual care is perhaps a lesser-known facet of relief provided by the American Red Cross and other organizations on hand, including the Salvation Army and the National Guard.
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Is the American Dream sailing away? The national median income has risen only modestly since the Reagan administration, while the income of the richest 0.1 percent of the population has quadrupled. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
Franklin D. Roosevelt and Lyndon Johnson were among the presidents who gave pro-immigration speeches at the base of the statue.
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