Right now, we’re in a world of comparisons and differences—political, geographical, and even interpersonal. Theodore Roosevelt truly believed that “comparison is the thief of joy,” (and that is not ...

Rabbi Jonathan H. Gerard of Easton, Pa., gently corrects me for writing in my column of February 14, after listing various English newspaper translations of a Hebrew phrase used by Israeli Minister of ...

Several people have requested that I revisit prepositions, based on how intriguing it is to master them. To such people, ‘intriguing’ is just a euphemism here. They consider mastering prepositions to, ...