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Health Check: Understanding Anxiety during Mental Health Awareness Month & Beyond

By DR. NIKKI BLOCH
What is Anxiety? Anxiety is a normal human emotion. It feels like worry or concern. Some physical signs of anxiety are restlessness, fast speech, sweating, fast heartbeat, or “butterflies” in the stomach. Anxiety originates back to when early humans needed to stay alert, escape or avoid danger, and even learn.

Op-Ed: Our Moral Moment

By SILVIA BLUMENFELD
These days, friends here in The Bronx, and all across the country, are telling me that they have stopped listening to the news. I can’t say the same, but in a way, I really do get the reason for that phenomenon.

Inquiring Photographer: Thoughts on the Life, Death & Legacy of Pope Francis

By DAVID GREENE & SÍLE MOLONEY
As cardinals gather in Rome for the latest conclave in order to select a new pope, this week, we asked readers their opinion on the life, death, and legacy of the late Pope Francis, the first Jesuit pope, the first pope from Latin America, and the first pope from the southern hemisphere, who was born in Flores, Buenos Aires, Argentina, and died at the Vatican in Rome, Italy on Easter Monday, April 21, at the age of 88.