Recent tensions only reveal fundamental shared interests. Hopefully. Plus Syria heads for civil war, Gilad's birthday, and more in the news Not really. Let us count the ways.  | |  Soon after Sept. 11, Esty and Dovi Scheiner moved from Brooklyn to Lower Manhattan. Ten years later, they have opened the Soho Synagogue, joining a blossoming landscape of Jewish life downtown. Sept. 11, 2001, started out as a beautiful day, clear and blue and crisp. It was a gorgeous day to be getting married, as Esty Levy planned to that evening in Brooklyn. But after the terrorist attacks at the World Trade Center ruined that perfect sky, she and her fiancé, Dovi Scheiner, called their rabbi, feeling that they could not proceed with their celebration. "He said it had to go ahead," said Levy, now Esty Scheiner. "He said it wasn't dancing in the face of sadness, it was a mitzvah." So, in a city gripped by chaos and fear, Esty and Dovi created a tiny island of joy, raising their chuppah and saying their vows as planned. More  | Bruce Jay Friedman's darkly comic novels, short stories, and screenplays place him among the past century's best American writers. In his new memoir, Lucky Bruce, he reminisces about many of them. More |  | Junketing to South America in the late 1960s with Robert Lowell, a wealthy Venezuelan, and Alfred Kazin. An excerpt from the forthcoming memoir Lucky Bruce. More | |
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