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As we celebrate women this month, I just have to say that I'm continually edified when reading about the many women who volunteer their time and energy to social service projects.

Here are some Jewish twists on traditional travel games to keep the fam engaged and edified!

The Amish edified the nation with their willingness to forgive.

This memorial was edified "in acknowledgement of Chokri Belaid's fight for the principles of freedom, dignity and social justice."

For years, we have enjoyed and been edified by your fine publication.

If you could ask every person attending a Broadway musical tonight why he or she is in the audience, not one would answer, "Because musicals have been a force for unity and understanding among the races." We don't go to musicals to be edified. But, like the king watching "The Small House of Uncle Thomas," we usually don't realize we're being asked to think until it's too late, and a lesson about what's right has already taken root in our brains.

Overwhelmingly edified, they feel it unnecessary to seek out the truly distinctive attributes of the holy person.

They will not be edified. On the other hand, those who suspect that Rorty is right when he claims that "philosophy makes progress not by becoming more rigorous but by becoming more imaginative" (8) can look forward to being treated to some of the most rigorous and imaginative philosophical writing of our time.