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A FAVOR

A spiritual mentor and "second father" who, to a large degree, made me who I am today is in desperate need of Divine assistance.

Chaim Yisroel ben (Hebrew for "son of") Chana Tzirel is one of the most prominent rabbis in America, both in terms of scholarship and communal responsibility. He has been the embodiment of Torah values and has taught literally several thousand disciples to likewise sacrifice in doing what's right no matter what the outcome.

PLEASE keep him in your prayers and/or do some extra act of kindness specifically in his merit. (You decide.)

May His healing be swift and complete.

In gratitude and friendship,
Binyamin L. Jolkovsky


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PONDERABLE


Laziness is not necessarily slowness. A lazy person may sometimes act quickly because he is too lazy to think about what he is doing.

--- Rabbi Dr. Abraham J. Twerski



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Wandering Jews
Sailing Upstream
By Ari Greenspan and Ari Z. Zivotofsky


When we decided on a trip down the Amazon, we knew we'd behold breathtaking vistas and magical rainforests --- and we hoped to find some Jews on the banks of the world's most massive river. Like every region that beckoned safety and financial opportunity, a town on the Amazon proved to be a haven for an oppressed people — but will the remnant be washed away with the rains?

FASCINATING!



War on Jihad
Poor, poor Putin: Russia is a new front for militant Islam
By Leon Aron


The jihadists are now calling Russia's enlightened cities home



Fantas-Tech?
The new way police are surveilling you: Calculating your threat 'score'
By Justin Jouvenal


As a national debate has played out over mass surveillance by the National Security Agency, a new generation of technology is givlmg local law enforcement officers unprecedented power to peer into the lives of citizens






Personal Growth
6 ways to get more appreciation
By Kim Giles


How you can shift your attitude to get more recognition for all you do



Gezunt/ On Health
Five myths about weight loss
By Kevin D. Hall


The Chief of the Integrative Physiology Section and creator of the National Institute of Health Body Weight Planner on the claims clouding the facts



Ess, Ess/ Eat, Eat!
The Kosher Gourmet

By Joe Yonan

Spiked with booze and packed with nuts Bourbon Pecan Pie: The all-important nut-to-goop balance --- It's in there


[ W O R T H  1 0 0 0  W O R D S  ]

Archie
Ripleys Believe It Or Not!
Andy Capp
Bliss
The Born Loser
Frank & Ernest
The Grizzwells
Herman
Moderately Confused
One Big Happy
Prickly City
Shoe
The Wizard of Id




Randall Enos

Joe Heller

Jerry Holbert

Taylor Jones

Jeff Koterba

Jimmy Margulies

Jimmy Margulies BONUS!

Rick McKee

Steve Sack

Gary Varvel

Michael Ramirez

Marilyn Penn: Swastikas at Fieldston

Dennis Byrne: Thank Andrew J. Viterbi for your cell phone and other digital devices



[ T O D A Y  I N  H I S T O R Y ]


1759, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the first American life insurance company is incorporated

1785, the Continental Congress convened in New York City

1787, William Herschel discovers Titania and Oberon, two moons of Uranus

1805, Michigan Territory is created

1861, Alabama secedes from the United States

1880, a total solar eclipse blackens the sky of San Francisco one day after the funeral of Emperor Norton

1902, Popular Mechanics magazine is published for the first time

1908, the Grand Canyon National Monument was created with a proclamation by President Theodore Roosevelt. (It became a national park in 1919.)

1913, the first sedan-type automobile, a Hudson, went on display at the 13th Automobile Show in New York

1922, first use of insulin to treat diabetes in a human patient

1935, Amelia Earhart is the first woman to fly solo from Hawaii to California

1943, the United States and United Kingdom give up territorial rights in China

1949, first recorded case of snowfall in Los Angeles, California.

1962, an avalanche on Huascaran in Peru causes 4,000 deaths

1964, the United States Surgeon General Dr. Luther Leonidas Terry, M.D., publishes a report saying that smoking may be hazardous to health. It is the first such statement ever made by the U.S. government

1972, East Pakistan renames itself Bangladesh

1974, the world's first surviving set of sextuplets are born to Susan Rosenkowitz in Cape Town, South Africa

1977, France set off an international uproar by releasing Abu Daoud, a PLO official and practitioner of that "religion of peace" who was behind the massacre of Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics

2001, the Federal Trade Commission approves the merger of AOL and Time Warner to form AOL Time Warner

2002, the first planeload of al-Qaida prisoners from Afghanistan arrived at a U.S. military detention camp in Guantanamo, Cuba

2003, calling the death penalty process "arbitrary and capricious, and therefore immoral," Illinois Gov. George Ryan commuted the sentences of 167 condemned inmates, clearing his state's death row two days before leaving office

2006, a Georgian court convicted a man of trying to assassinate President George W. Bush and Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili with a grenade in Tbilisi on May 10, 2005, and sentenced him to life in prison

2007, President Bush's plan for a surge of American troops to Iraq ran into a wall of criticism on Capitol Hill as administration officials drew confrontational challenges from both Democrats and Republicans

2010, Mark McGwire admitted to The Associated Press that he'd used steroids when he broke baseball's home run record in 1998. ALSO: 78 percent of U.S. air travelers say they support using full body airport scanners, a Gallup poll indicated

2011, a downpour of 10 inches of rain in Brazil in a 24-hour period triggered floods and mudslides that killed more than 900 people and left an estimated 25,000 others homeless. Severe weather ranging from flooding to snow and ice hit many other areas hard, including much of the United States and Australia's Brisbane area

2012, Iran blamed the United States and Israel for the bombing death of nuclear scientist Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan, the fourth such attack in two months. The White House denied responsibility

2013, U.S. President Barack Obama said the war in Afghanistan "will come to a responsible end" by the end of 2014.

2014, former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon died at age 85. He had been in a coma for eight years following a massive stroke

2015, more than a million people surged through the boulevards of Paris behind dozens of world leaders walking arm-in-arm in a rally for unity against three days of terror that killed 17 people and changed France



[ I N S I G H T ]

Mark Steyn: Notes on a Phenomenon

News of the Weird by Chuck Shepherd:Ironies | People With Issues

Argus Hamilton: The News in

Ellen McCarthy: What is catfishing? A brief (and sordid) history

Noah Smith: Embolden academia, end tenure

Robert J. Samuelson: Is the next recession on its way?

Jeff Jacoby: State of the Union spectacle would appall Thomas Jefferson

Jennifer Rubin: Distinguished pols of the week

Bruce Bialosky: Is Trump the New JFK?

Kathleen Parker: Trump's playing of the Bill Clinton card is foul --- but fair

Chris Cillizza: The fantasy scenario that could become reality for Hillary

Debra J. Saunders: GOP Falls Into Purity Trap

Francis Wilkinson: Why Rubio is fleeing the establishment

Leonid Bershidsky: Putin makes Russia's isolationism official

Ramesh Ponnuru: Why Cruz's rivals can't make much headway by attacking him on issues

George Will: Will the Supreme Court undo the damage done to the rights of millions of government workers?

Mallard Filmore

Dry Bones

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