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As the persevering, 70’s-minted rock band Kiss kicks off a new tour, appearing tonight on “Late Show With David Letterman,” founding band member Paul Stanley is mourning the loss of his mother, Eva Eisen, who died on Sept. 30th. “My mother found so much pleasure and fulfillment in all the various types of music that […]

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Not many 17-year-olds have received a presidential endorsement from a New York Times columnist, but Talia Leman has. Nicholas Kristof gave her his vote for the 2044 race when he learned at an awards dinner about her work helping kids like herself raise money for causes including a school in rural Cambodia and wells in […]

For a ritual structure intended to evoke fragility and transience, the sukkah enjoys an oddly long life as an object of contemplation and representation. Two years ago, it was Sukkah City, an architecture competition and public art project in Union Square. It drew an estimated 200,000 viewers to the dozen winning, legally valid but visually […]

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