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The sun has not yet risen over the East River as Moshe Tauber steers his slightly dented black minibus across the George Washington Bridge to Manhattan in New York City. On Riverside Drive, at the corner of 145th Street, he picks up the nylon line punctually at half past four – as he has done every Thursday for around 25 years. He has not missed a single Thursday. “Do you see that fishing line up there? It goes all the way from 145th Street to Madison Avenue. We have to check that now, so that’s where we’ll start.” That distance spans about 13 kilometres. Tauber is the father of 12 children, r…