Diane Button was just 15 years old when she started volunteering — then working — at Nazareth House, a convalescent home just ...

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Warren Buffett, Berkshire Hathaway’s 95-year-old CEO, said he plans to discuss “philanthropy, Berkshire and other matters” in ...

You’ll see books on Jewish life to help deepen your knowledge of Israel and Jewish history. You can get new recipes, a great memoir or novel to read yourself to sleep every night. The Mandel JCC in ...

Some stories don’t just speak to who you are now but whisper to every version you’ve been before. These eight books hold the kind of honesty and gentleness that meet you where you once stood, ...

DURING THOSE COUNTERCULTURE YEARS, A LOT OF THE RIGHTS MOVEMENTS, THE WHOLE GOAL WAS TO SEND FREE BOOKS TO PEOPLE IN PRISON. AND THAT’S WHAT THESE VOLUNTEERS ARE STILL DOING IN THE LOWER LEVEL OF THIS ...

Earlier in the fall, I attended a memorial service for the wife of a close friend. It was a solemn event, celebrating a long ...

With Berkshire Hathaway's book value per share over- or under-estimating the true value of its businesses, Warren Buffett prefers alternatives to this accounting metric.

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The stacks at Harvard’s Widener Library are, I have come to believe, the best place to hide if you want to spend an afternoon reading uninterrupted but not alone. Widener has that rare charm conferred ...

In a 1989 memoir called “Self-Consciousness,” John Updike (1932-2009) remembered his childhood sense “of an embowering wide world arranged for my mystification and entertainment.” In many ways, this ...

Dear members of the MIT community, The U.S. Department of Education recently sent MIT and eight other institutions a proposed “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education,” along with a letter ...