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By David Gibson 4/02/07 12:00am

Don’t Let the Door Hit You, Your Eminence, on the Way Out

By this Monday, on the occasion of his 75th birthday, Cardinal Edward Michael Egan, Archbishop of New York and the 12th man to occupy the cathedra of St. Patrick’s in the 200-year history of the diocese, will send the Pope an official request to be relieved of his duties.

The resignation is, as Cardinal Egan Read More

By David Gibson 12/13/99 12:00am

It’s a Watershed Event: East Side Gets a Mikvah

It’s a mikvah on East 77th Street!

Withabankrollof$4 million, the Brooklyn-based Lubavitchers are preparing to build a tony purification bath, or mikvah, for Jewish women in the heart of the Upper East Side. But will ritual cleansing–not to mention sexual abstinence required of bathers–catch on in one of the most adamantly secular neighborhoods of Read More