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Creating Community on the Ball Court

Every Sunday morning, a group of men in their 20s descend upon the Jewish Community Center of Great Neck, on a peninsula between Manhasset and Little Neck bays off the Long Island Sound in New York. Before the shooting starts, they pause for a hallowed game day ritual: led by their spiritual coach — and the director of the JCC of Great Neck — Chabad-Lubavitch Rabbi Zevy Geisinsky, they put on tefillin and pray.