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After nearly four decades of stuffing kosher diners with spare ribs, egg rolls and General Tso’s chicken, Brooklyn’s Shang-Chai restaurant closed its doors for the last time on New Year’s Day. Angie Chan, who took over the business with her husband, Alan, in 1991, blamed the economy for fewer parties and more people dining at […]

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One of the most striking societal changes in the past decade has been the emergence of data as a major force in shaping the way we think about the world. We live in a world saturated with numbers. Statistics are ubiquitous in our everyday lives — not just in reports of macro trends but also […]

Two of the oldest Jewish congregations in the United States are battling over a pair of silver Torah ornaments, according to a published report. U.S. District Judge William Smith in Providence, R.I., is to hold a settlement conference on Thursday to determine whether the Touro Synagogue in Newport, a National Historic Site that is the […]

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