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"In the spring of 1979, the staff director of the US Commission on Civil Rights announced plans to open a New England Regional Office."

"I was 12 years old and had been going to Hebrew school for about three years."

"From the age of 10, my mother made it clear to me that I had to go to Shul on Rosh Hashana--Yom Kippur. She did not go to Shul. I went alone."

"I don't believe in spirits."

"Bob noted that I haven’t written any 'memoirs' in a while."

"For some time, as I have been writing these pieces, ideas have been coming to me in the early morning while I am half asleep. The idea that occurred to me this morning was to describe the people and events I can still remember from my time in the…

In March 1956, when I returned from the Army, returned to NYU, and returned to the ILGWU, my life returned to being much as it was before: frenetic.

"The Jews are an ancient people."

"Today is July 1, 2010, and as I woke up this morning, I was stricken with guilt."

"When I was about eight years old, my mother sent me to the Workmen’s Circle Shule to get a Jewish education."