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Regarding Gary Rosenblatt’s column, “What I’ve Learned Since Lanner” (Jan. 11), and his reference to “gray areas”: We have learned many things over the years about people such as his examples who engage in “inappropriate behavior. ” They are persistent, they rarely change this behavior and our not knowing whether they have actually stepped over […]

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Rabbi David Wolpe’s Musings column, which I usually thoroughly enjoy, missed the mark by a wide margin (“The Power Of Now,” Jan. 4). Being in the “now” does not mean rejecting the past, or dismissing what is to come. It means becoming fully available to what is before you right here, at this moment. It […]

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Ari Goldman is correct (“Only the Subway Stop Remains,” Directions, Dec. 28) when he describes much of the iconic shopping of the Lower East Side — Bernstein’s, Ratner’s, Spitzer’s — as no longer present along Essex, Delancey and Rivington streets. It is equally true, however, that a vibrant Jewish community still exists and thrives along […]

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