In her essay, “The Lasting Lessons Of A Shuttered Temple” (Back Of The Book, Oct. 13), Lori Silberman Brauner displayed a disturbing bias toward the way in which Eastern European Jews have ...

Growing up in North Carolina as the daughter of two rabbis was hard enough—growing up with a name like mine was even harder. My parents named me Meirav Batsheva. Meirav means abundance in Hebrew. The ...

I don’t get them. Studying the minutiae of pronunciation, punctuation and parts of speech just doesn’t get my engine running. Maybe grammar guys are left-brained and I’m right-brained. Or is the other ...