John Tishman, an influential developer who oversaw the construction of the World Trade Center’s Twin Towers and Chicago’s John Hancock Center, has died at 90.
The great Rabbi Leo Baeck, for whom our congregation is named, taught that “optimism becomes a demand for the heroism of man, for his moral will to struggle. It is an optimism which strives to realize morality in practice.”
Alex Dwek, a London-born real-estate developer, sits with a friend in a dimly-lit cafe on New York\’s fashionable Upper West Side, sipping white wine and chatting up a young lady he\’s just met. The three of them, all 30-something, fashionably dressed and single, have just emerged from an evening class nearby, where they studied \”The Artist\’s Way: Discovering and Recovering Your Creative Self.\”
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