Long ago, before I had ever seen a diamond, I read about them and I tried to imagine what they would be like … When I saw a real diamond in a lady’s ring one day I was so disappointed […]

Fervency Definition: (noun) Feelings of great warmth and intensity. Synonyms: Ardor, Fire Usage: She spoke about the shelter with so much fervency that you could not help but develop a similar passion for the cause.

Shivaji (1630) A devout Hindu, Shivaji grew up hating the Mughal Empire that controlled most of his native India. Around 1655, he began making guerrilla attacks on the Muslim kingdom of Bijapur, gradually carving out his own domain. He lured […]

Birth, n.: The first and direst of all disasters. Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)

Young Israel Of Pelham Parkway: Please join us for our next Community Oneg Shabbat dinner at the Young Israel Of Pelham Parkway Jewish Center, 900 Pelham Parkway South Bx, NY 10461 to be held on Friday, February 23rd, starting at […]

Begrime Definition: (verb) Make soiled, filthy, or dirty. Synonyms: Bemire, Colly, Dirty, Soil Usage: Mother warned me not to begrime my clothes while playing outside.

Helen Gurley Brown (1922) Propelled to fame by her 1962 bestseller Sex and the Single Girl, Brown became editor-in-chief of the struggling Cosmopolitan magazine. By directing the magazine toward single, young career women and by being an outspoken advocate of […]

Most men, even in this comparatively free country, through mere ignorance and mistake, are so occupied with the factitious cares and superfluously coarse labors of life that its finer fruits cannot be plucked by them. Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)