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"It is December, 2015, eleven months before the presidential election."

"We have been married for 34 years."

"We get the NY Times every day."

"American Pharoah won the 141st running of the Kentucky Derby. Mazel Tov!"

"The High Holidays are over, and I just read a story by S Y Agnon called The Etrog."

"It is Rosh Hashanah, and everyone is wishing everyone else 'A Happy New Year'.”

"On November 3rd 1888, in Vaslui, Romania, a baby girl was born." (Fragment/Introduction)

"When I began to write my 'memoirs' I concentrated on my earliest years." (Fragment)

"For a lot of years—say from before the turn of the century (the 20th) until the 1960s—there was a group of remarkable Jewish labor leaders leading what was known as the Jewish unions." (Fragment)

"Today, December 18, 2015, I turn 88."