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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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Jonathan Mark continues to be our conscience and soul with his “Most Under-reported Stories of 2012” (Dec. 28), whose dire consequences we ignore at our peril. For example, the underreporting of the Palestinian rockets permitted the media to equate Hamas with Israel when the Israel Defense Forces finally acted, elevating the terrorists and blaming the […]

Two of the oldest Jewish congregations in the United States are battling over a pair of silver Torah ornaments, according to the Associated Press. 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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