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As one who grew up in the shadow of Ebbets Field, I must correct a statement that Gary Rosenblatt made in his excellent column, “Closer To Home: Of Baseball, Family And Faith,” May 18. He included Carl Erskine and Gil Hodges [as Brooklyn Dodger players later named to] the Hall of Fame. Although Erskine is […]

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Emma Goldberg, 17 She used to doubt the power of Twitter. After all, how much can you really express in 140 characters? — Twitter’s strict word limit. But after mobilizing 2,000 students to direct tweets at President Obama while he appeared on MTV, and receiving a response from the president himself on national television articulating […]

Simi Lampert, 22 Twitter: @beaconmag www.thebeaconmag.com Talk about a bombshell. The story Simi Lampert chose to publish in The Beacon, an online publication for and by Modern Orthodox college students — about a Modern Orthodox woman’s premarital tryst in a New York hotel room — bounded past the Jewish media and made it all the […]

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