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WHAT CAN A JEWISH COMMUNITY DO when a local symphony is presenting a program that could lead to antisemitism? Try to stop the program? Protest outside the church where it's being presented? Or, work with the Christian community to see if there's a different solution? In 1995, when the Bach Festival in Eugene, Oregon, announced plans to perform St. John's Passion in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II, this was the quandary the local Jewish community faced.

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Sandy Toner is a Christian Science practitioner in Dana Point, California . Recently, she talked with the Journal about ways that members of the religious community responded to those in need during some devastating fires that occurred in Southern California last October.

My Friend Theo and I were waiting in front of the library for his parents when a teenager walked up to us and asked us if we had any valuables or money. "No," we answered.

A FEW YEARS AGO my aunt made a study of our family genealogy. She traced back ten generations or more and assembled a great number of facts, which she sent in a thick notebook to each of our family members.

When I Was Young , I decided I wanted to have three children and adopt five more. It didn't quite work out that way.

IT LOOKED LIKE A PERFECT TIME to start a family. We'd been married four years and my husband was finishing graduate school.

Walter Robinson is Musical Director and Composer-in-Residence at The Mary Baker Eddy Library for the Betterment of Humanity. He studied composition and double bass at the New England Conservatory of Music graduate school, and then spent eight years as composer-in-residence at the W.

I Used To Wonder why this turned out differently for me than it did for Helen. Did she pray better than I did? Is that why she got her man? But then I remembered that our goal was not to find husbands, but to improve our dismal view of men.

It Seemed that everywhere I looked, I saw terrific women dating less-than-terrific men. Men who'd left their wives for younger women.