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Reason #997 I love this city. This sort of space sharing is more common than I think people realize. A Struggling Bronx Synagogue Finds Free Housing—in a Mosque – Tablet Magazine. Near the corner of Westchester Avenue and Pugsley Street in Parkchester, just off the elevated tracks of the No. 6 train, Yaakov Wayne Baumann stood outside a graffiti-covered storefront on a chilly Saturday morning. Suited up in a black overcoat with a matching wide-brimmed black fedora, the thickly bearded 42-year-old chatted with elderly congregants as they entered the building for Shabbat service.  The only unusual detail: This synagogue is…

Reuter’s Coverage of America to Zanzibar

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Oddly Funny

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