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A lifelong lover of classical music, Hans Herman Kahn — native of Nuremberg, survivor of Dachau, longtime resident of Manhattan — has heard countless concerts. Last week he attended a special concert in his honor. A resident of the MJHS Muriel and Harold Block Hospice Residence in the Kingsbridge section of the Bronx, Kahn, 93, […]

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“There is no revenge for the blood of a little child — such a revenge has yet to be devised by Satan,” wrote Hayyim Nahman Bialik about a very different massacre over a century ago. In lieu of vengeance, Bialik calls for a cosmic response: “Let the blood pierce through the abyss!” As the children […]

Bobby Kennedy’s visit to a shul on Eastern Parkway marked the beginning of the end of the borough’s liberal Jewish presence.

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