Daphne Merkin’s alarmingly powerful memoir, ‘This Close to Happy,’ delves into the childhood wreckage and adult emptiness of ‘the process of depression’
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Meet the new Lincoln Square Synagogue, the first important Jewish religious building in Manhattan in four decades
The Syrian community, long based in Brooklyn, makes itself at home on the Upper East Side
For one Jewish filmmaker, making a documentary about gay Palestinians helped him accept his own identity
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