From: grammatim@verizon.net   
      
   On Friday, December 23, 2016 at 4:21:29 PM UTC-5, danny burstein wrote:   
   > In <7e270e1b-83a9-4630-93d1-168630bb48cd@googlegroups.com> han   
   ock4@bbs.cpcn.com writes:   
      
   > >Anything of interest at Second Ave & 96th St?  Doesn't seem like much   
   > >other than a public housing project and a Starbucks.   
   >   
   > If you're up to walking a block or two,   
   > you've got Metropolitan Hospital (aka   
   > Bellevue North) and then...   
   >   
   > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_Cultural_Center_of_New_York   
      
   The last time I was there, I'd just come back from Israel. I got there just as   
   a worship meeting was letting out from a downstairs assembly room. I asked if   
   I could see the main sanctuary (Skidmore, Owings, & Merrill), and a gentleman   
   with a key took me up. I told him how different it is from the great historic   
   mosque in Acre, or Akko, which is far from austere. He said he'd like to visit   
   some day, but would he be allowed into Israel? US citizen? I asked, and he said   
   Certainly (I think his accent was Persian rather than Arabic), so I suggested   
   there should be no problem -- though if he wanted to visit a Muslim country,   
   the Israelis would be happy to put his passport stamp on a removable piece of   
   paper.   
      
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