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I live on land that I purchased in the city of Albany, New York in 1994.I live on land whose previous owners included African Americans and American Jews who moved to Albany, New York at different times in the late 1970’s and early 80’s.
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The photos of my bar mitzvah celebration that arrived in the mail from my parents coincided with the forty fifth anniversary of that celebration. Metaphors, perhaps, for an adolescence I would prefer to forget, the pictures are blurry and poorly composed.
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As the indoor restrictions of COVID wore on through 2020 and 2021, my wife and I found new solace and pleasure in hiking the trails of the conservancies and state parks dotting the greater capital district.
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With a recent religious fast on the Jewish calendar fast approaching, I was curious to find out how the modern English word, fast, came to mean…
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The Barberville Falls in Rensselaer County rush with noisy, furious joy down an imposing, ninety- foot wall of wafer-like stacks of sandstone, limestone…
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There is an ancient Jewish legend about a wonder-working sage who hid with his son from their oppressors in a cave for twelve years. During that time,…
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A couple of weeks ago, on Holocaust Memorial Day, I was doing a project with my middle school students for our memorial assembly. One of them had finished…
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In December, the arborists came to our backyard to prune our locust tree, some of whose larger branches had died and were breaking off from the trunk. The…
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As an avid winter hiker, one of my favorite endeavors is walking across local bodies of frozen water. From the tiny frog ponds of Delmar’s Pine Hollow…
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Dear Mr. President:Warmest congratulations to you and to Vice President Harris upon this historic and long-awaited occasion of your inauguration. You and…