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February 11, 2012

A Priest, a Rabbi, and an Addict

Samuel Freedman, New York Times

BOYS TOWN, Neb. — On a clement winter day at the edge of the Plains, two men in black trod a kind of hallowed ground. One was a Roman Catholic priest, the Rev. Steven E. Boes, and the other a Hasidic rabbi, Shais Taub.

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