The Reform movement in particular has faced up to the reality that about half the marriages of Reform Jews these days are to non-Jews. I've been telling the Reform community for years now that all the James Taylor campfire singalongs in the

There was a similar case here where an English woman ... I heard her interviewed and found it difficult to believe. It happened to (Swiss German) customer of me. He was married to a french woman. He spoke fluently french and english. After the

There was a similar case here where an English woman spoke with a French accent following a stroke (although she could speak no French). I heard her interviewed and found it difficult to believe. David It happened to (Swiss German) customer of me.

Nectar In A Sieve by Kamala Markandaya Rukmani, a peasant from a village in India, lives a life of constant struggle, yet she is a source of strength for many. At age twelve she marries a man she has never met and moves with him to his rented

... } He never flew out of North Beach? That's my own favorite, though the } landings can be scary. Idlewild is so far away, though an inhabitant of } Jamaica town would see things otherwise. Oh, yeah. Plenty. Have I mentioned my birth

"Skitt" (Email Removed) wrote on 23 Nov 2003: "Illest" is sound, and has the virtue of concision. It ... noted by others "most" is generally uncomfortable working on one-syllable adjectives. "Ill", the

Thus spake Eric Walker: (Snip lines and lines and lines...) Try to find "more unique" in the prose of craftsmanlike writers. I'll take that bet. "More unique": Why have I alluded to this man (Thackeray)? I have alluded to

I just saw on TV a fire captain who said ... truck that of the Newark (New Jersey) fire department. That's the way we say it in that general area of NJ. My first wife, from Maplewood, NJ, said it that way. It's handy for limericks: There

court protocol is a weird critter. A higher title obviously trumps a lower one: if a Countess in her own ... you have a higher title, you're deemed not to have the inferior one which would have been gained by marriage. As I understand it, the

Not "will not": cannot . Those in certain ... physician, attorney of record, clergy; I may be omitting some. English law has never recognised any such privilege except in the cases of husband and wife, and lawyer and client. . . . As I