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September 18, 2010

A PRAYERFUL WEEKEND

Today is Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the year in the Jewish calendar.

Monday is September 20, the anniversary of the birth of my late sister, Janet Berman--a day, for me, when meditation and contemplation are always in order. It also happens to be the unofficial "Pray for Christopher Hitchens Day," when friends and even foes of the author and Vanity Fair columnist, have agreed to pray for our colleague, en masse. (He is in the midst of a courageous standoff with cancer of the esophagus, which he has written about for the magazine.)

There is much to pray for, much to face, much to reevaluate this solemn, windswept, precious weekend.

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