Inspired Living
Which careers are especially valued by the Torah?
By Rabbi Dr. Tzvi Hersh Weinreb

"What do you want to be when you grow up?" That was once the standard question to ask an eight- or nine-year-old when trying to make conversation with him or her. It seems to me that we don't ask that question of children these days, at least not as frequently as we used to

War on Jihad
Evidence mounting that US BDS groups are fronts for terror organizations
By Sean Savage

Emerging evidence suggests that the BDS movement has extensive ties to Palestinian terrorist organizations, using the "social justice" movement as a veritable human shield for anti-Israel ideology and activism

Prevent A Divorce!
7 ways to be the perfect spouse without changing who you are (or your spouse)
By Courtnie Erickson

You know somebody who can gain from this article

Wellness
Brain researchers warn that lack of sleep is a public health crisis
By Carolyn Y. Johnson

In the digital age, adults are getting less and less shut-eye. And science says it may be making us sick

Ess, Ess/ Eat, Eat!
The Kosher Gourmet
By Becky Krystal

CHILI SECRETS: How to make your best pot ever

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On this day in . . .

• 1776, the first national memorial is ordered by Congress. It was built in in honor of Brigadier General Richard Montgomery, who had been killed during an assault on Quebec on December 31, 1775

• 1890, Nellie Bly, a young New York reporter, completed a trip around the world in 72 days, 6 hours and 11 minutes

• 1905, at the Premier Mine in Pretoria, South Africa, a 3,106-carat diamond is discovered during a routine inspection by the mine's superintendent. Weighing 1.33 pounds, and christened the "Cullinan," it was the largest diamond ever found

• 1915, the inventor of the telephone, Alexander Graham Bell, inaugurated U.S. transcontinental telephone service in a hookup between New York and San Francisco

• 1919, in Paris, delegates to the peace conference formally approve the establishment of a commission on the League of Nations. It lasted until 1946 when it was replaced by the United Nations

• 1942, Thailand, a Japanese puppet state, declares war on the Allies

• 1956, in a long interview with visiting American attorney Marshall MacDuffie, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev adopts a friendly attitude toward the United States and indicates that he believes President Dwight Eisenhower is sincere in his desire for peace

• 1959, American Airlines opened the jet age in the United States with the first scheduled transcontinental flight of a Boeing 707

• 1961, President Kennedy held the first presidential news conference carried live on radio and television

• 1968, the Israeli submarine Dakar, carrying 69 sailors, passes the island of Crete and radios its position --- then disappears. The exact fate of this vessel remains a mystery to this day

• 1971, Charles Manson and three women followers were convicted in Los Angeles of murder and conspiracy in the 1969 slayings of seven people, including actress Sharon Tate

• 1972, President Richard Nixon, in response to criticism that his administration has not made its best efforts to end the war, reveals that his National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger has held 12 secret peace negotiating sessions between August 4, 1969, and August 16, 1971. The negotiations took place in Paris with Le Duc Tho, a member of Hanoi's Politburo, and/or with Xuan Thuy, Hanoi's chief delegate to the formal Paris peace talks

• 1981, the 52 Americans held hostage by Iran for 444 days arrived in the United States. ALSO: Jiang Qing, the widow of Chinese leader Mao Zedong, is sentenced to death for her "counter-revolutionary crimes" during the Cultural Revolution

• 1984, Apple's Macintosh computer went on sale. Price tag: $2,495

• 1993, U.S. President Bill Clinton put his wife, Hillary, in charge of a healthcare task force with a mandate to produce a plan for universal coverage in 100 days

• 1995, Russia's early-warning defense radar detects an unexpected missile launch near Norway, and Russian military command estimates the missile to be only minutes from impact on Moscow. Moments later, Russian President Boris Yeltsin, his defense minister, and his chief of staff were informed of the missile launch. The nuclear command systems switched to combat mode, and the nuclear suitcases carried by Yeltsin and his top commander were activated for the first time in the history of the Soviet-made weapons system. Five minutes after the launch detection, Russian command determined that the missile's impact point would be outside Russia's borders. Three more minutes passed, and Yeltsin was informed that the launching was likely not part of a surprise nuclear strike by Western nuclear submarines

• 1997, responding to recent cases of deadly food poisoning, President Clinton said in his weekly radio address that he would seek $43 million dollars to implement a state-of-the-art early warning system for food contamination

• 2001, a jury in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., found 13-year-old Lionel Tate guilty of first-degree murder in the death of a six-year-old family friend, Tiffany Eunick. (An appeals court overturned the first-degree murder conviction in 2004. Tate was freed from prison under a deal in which he pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and was sentenced to 10 years' probation; however, Tate is back behind bars for violating that probation.)

• 2002, J. Clifford Baxter, a former Enron Corp. executive who'd reportedly complained about the company's questionable accounting practices, was found shot to death in a car, a suicide

• 2006, Hamas won a large majority of seats in Palestinian parliamentary elections. ALSO: Richard Hatch of "Survivor" fame was convicted in Providence, R.I., of failing to pay taxes on his $1 million in winnings (he later served more than three years in federal prison and was then placed on supervised release, but now faces the prospect of further jail time for violating the terms of his release)

• 2007, Ford Motor Co. said it had lost a staggering $12.7 billion in 2006, the worst loss in the company's 103-year history

• 2010, Iraq hanged Ali Hassan al-Majid, known as "Chemical Ali" for his role in gassing 5,000 people in a Kurdish village

• 2011, in Egypt, thousands of anti-government protesters clashed with police during a Tunisia-inspired demonstration to demand the end of President Hosni Mubarak's rule

• 2012, U.S. military forces flew into Somalia in a nighttime helicopter raid, freeing an American and a Danish hostage and killing nine pirates. ALSO: U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona returned to Congress to officially tender her resignation a year after she was shot and severely wounded in her home district

• 2016, President Barack Obama said he would ban the use of solitary confinement for juvenile and low-level offenders in federal prisons, citing the potential for "devastating, lasting psychological consequences" from the use of the isolation as punishment

• 2018 President Donald Trump arrived at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland; after meeting there with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Trump threatened to cut off U.S. aid to the Palestinians unless they negotiated peace with Israel. ALSO: The White House unveiled an immigration proposal that would provide a pathway to citizenship for 1.8 million young immigrants living in the country illegally in exchange for new restrictions on legal immigration and $25 billion in border security; House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi charged that it was part of an administration effort to "make America white again."

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News of the Weird: Not quite getting it

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• Patton Oswalt got into a Twitter war with a Trump supporter --- then helped pay his medical bills

Ruben Navarrette: Don't cry for government workers during shutdown

Rich Lowry: In Defense of the MAGA Hat

Deroy Murdock : Trump-Hating Media Destroys It's Own Credibility

Suzanne Fields: The Press Gets a Needed Lesson in Truth Telling

L. Brent Bozell III: The NFL Recovers From Kneeling Frenzy

Megan McArdle: The late John Bogle's financial product was a hit with ordinary people

Marc A. Thiessen : If Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez were a conservative

Leonid Bershidsky: Maduro's fall in Venezuela would be a defeat for Putin, too

Henry Olsen: Trump's 'America First' policy could work in Venezuela

Dick Morris: President Trump Should Split the Difference on the Border Wall

Mona Charen: An Opening for a Party of Reality

Patricia Murphy: The shutdown is exactly what voters asked for

David Limbaugh: Trump and His Supporters Are in This Fight for the Long Haul

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