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"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."

"The Bostoner Rebbe, the first American born Hasidic Rebbe, died Saturday, December 5, 2009, and it got me to thinking..."

"I clearly inherited my sense of Jewishness from my mother. "

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

"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.

"It was a pleasant Thursday morning. I had made my list of all the things I wanted to do that day."

"Having just returned from the Bar Mitzvah of Itai Squires-Kasten, I began thinking about my connection to Itai and his family."

"When you add it all up, I really am lucky." (Fragment, early draft)

"It is January 1, 2010, and I was wondering if I had any new thoughts for the new year."