In ordinary times, the Kriyas haTorah [“Reading of the Torah”] occurs publicly in the synagogue…
I spent many delightful hours one summer reading David Copperfield to Mrs. Vera Wardner Dougan…
In the summer of 1815, the poet John Keats and his friend Charles Cowden Clarke…
I wasn’t with my father when he died. No one was. In his music school’s…
Chapter 11 of the Bible book Numbers records a plague experienced by the Hebrews on…
The western boundary of the US State of Mississippi is defined, for the most part,…
One Friday evening, some years ago, I attended services at a synagogue in Lafayette Hill,…
Thomas Moore (1779-1852) was an Irish poet. He was a friend and biographer of the…
My mother was born in Hazard, Kentucky, in the United States on November 14, 1930.…
In January 1754, Horace Walpole, the English writer, art historian, and politician, sent a letter…
