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The lost: Capital Region lives ended by COVID-19 The pandemic has upended the nation, but its truest cost is felt by friends and families Times Union staff FacebookTwitterEmail 558. That's the minimum count of how many people, as of this writing, have succumbed to COVID-19 in the greater Capital Region. In less than 10 months. That is a wartime number — a casualty list perhaps more in keeping with the recounting of Civil War regimental losses than of anything understood in the modern era. Scientists who study the way the human brain processes big numbers say we’re not very good at it.  T...

Temple's stained glass shimmers with light and history Beth Emeth's blue window cascades depict cosmos, and a Torah rescued from Nazis FacebookTwitterEmail ALBANY  -- Congregation Beth Emeth’s biggest sanctuary has seven floor-to-ceiling stained glass windows, cascades of hundreds of hues of blue dramatically symbolizing the cosmos, skies and oceans during Creation. Floating in the abstract colors are realistic and detailed stained glass scenes of men, women and children celebrating holy days and worshipping. Those scenes were rescued from Temple Beth Emeth’s 19th century building on Swa...