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In His Own Words
How Jimmy Breslin, Irish Catholic Pulitzer winner, came to appreciate Shabbos
By Jimmy Breslin

The late, great columnist and author was married to a Jewish woman. But it was somebody else who introduced him to the beauty of the Jewish Sabbath

Reality Check
Trump's greatest deal
By Caroline B. Glick

The Iran deal Trump needs to make with the Russians is clear

Diplomacy
Has the American president just run interference for the Israeli PM?
By Carol Morello & Anne Gearan

Why those "peace talks" aren't going to start as soon as some would like

Shanda
Jewish groups say they are relieved and heartbroken after arrest in JCC threats
By Mark Berman

Well, there is an upside --- says one wag trying hard to save face

Wealth Strategies
6 Ways to Protect Yourself From Falling Stock Prices
By Daren Fonda

Freaking out about the market? Here's what you can do right now to ease your anxiety

Coupling
Marital intimacy and happiness
By Kim Giles

The secret to happiness in life and how to choose it even when your marriage isn't what you wanted it to be

Ess, Ess/ Eat, Eat!
The Kosher Gourmet
By Ellie Krieger

Mango and chicken meet, marry well and happiness ensues: This healthful dish uses an Asian-style marinade that hits every single taste bud

Wellness
$1,000 for a cough
By Darlena Cunha

It cost us a lot of money and distress, but next time we know what to do

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• Lisa Benson

• Daryl Cagle

• Rick McKee

• Milt Priggee

• Steve Sack

• Dana Summers

• Gary Varvel

• Michael Ramirez

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On this day in . . .

• 1765, during the American Revolutionary War: The Kingdom of Great Britain passes the Quartering Act that requires the 13 American colonies to house British troops

• 1882, Robert Koch announces the discovery of the bacterium responsible for tuberculosis (mycobacterium tuberculosis)

• 1896, A. A. Popov made the first radio signal transmission in history

• 1900, New York City Mayor Robert Anderson Van Wyck breaks ground for a new underground "Rapid Transit Railroad" that would link Manhattan and Brooklyn

• 1923, Greece becomes a republic

• 1936, the longest game in NHL history is played between Detroit and Montreal. Detroit scored at 16:30 of the sixth overtime and won the game 1-0

• 1944, in an event later dramatized in the movie The Great Escape, 76 prisoners begin breaking out of Stalag Luft III

• 1965, NASA spacecraft Ranger 9, equipped to convert its signals into a form suitable for showing on domestic television, brings images of the Moon into ordinary homes before crash-landing

• 1976, Argentina's military forces depose president Isabel Perón and start the National Reorganization Process

• 1989, Exxon Valdez oil spill: In Prince William Sound in Alaska, USA the Exxon Valdez spills 240,000 barrels (42,000 m³) of petroleum after running aground

• 1993, the suspected ringleader of the first World Trade Center bombing that killed six people and injured more than 1,000 was arrested in Egypt and extradited to New York

• 1998, the Jonesboro massacre: Two students, ages 11 and 13, fire upon teachers and students at Westside Middle School in Jonesboro, Arkansas; five people are dead and ten are wounded

• 1999, the Kosovo War: NATO commences air bombardment against Yugoslavia, marking the first time NATO has attacked a sovereign country

• 2000, a federal judge awarded former hostage Terry Anderson $341 million from Iran, holding Iranian agents responsible for Anderson's nearly seven years of captivity in Lebanon. (Anderson later received $26.2 million in frozen Iranian assets.)

• 2003, in Iraq, Saddam Hussein appeared on television appealing to Iraqis to hold firm against the U.S.-led coalition

• 2005, the U.S. Supreme Court denied an appeal from the parents of Terri Schiavo to have a feeding tube reinserted into the severely brain-damaged woman. ALSO: Chess legend Bobby Fischer was freed after being detained nine months in Japan for trying to leave the country with an invalid U.S. passport; he boarded a flight to his new home, Iceland. AND: the Philippine army broke a plot by practitioners of that "religion of peace" to detonate bombs throughout Manila on Easter

• 2006, in Selmer, Tenn., Mary Winkler was charged with shooting to death her minister-husband, Matthew Winkler, in the parsonage of their church. (Mary Winkler, who said she'd been abused by her husband, was convicted of voluntary manslaughter and received a three-year prison sentence, but was granted probation for most of it.)

• 2007, the U.N. Security Council unanimously voted to impose new sanctions against Iran for its refusal to stop enriching uranium

• 2010, keeping a promise he'd made to anti-abortion Democratic lawmakers to assure passage of historic health care legislation, President Barack Obama signed an executive order against using federal funds to pay for elective abortions covered by private insurance

• 2014, a court in Minya, Egypt sentenced 529 members of the Muslim Brotherhood to death on charges including murder and attempted murder. Most of the suspects were tried in absentia

• 2016, a U.N. war crimes court convicted former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic of genocide and nine other charges for orchestrating a campaign of terror that left 100,000 people dead during the 1992-95 war in Bosnia; Karadzic was sentenced to 40 years in prison. Republican Gov. Mike Pence signed a bill making Indiana the second state to ban abortions because of fetal genetic abnormalities such as Down syndrome

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Wesley Pruden: What's important about Trump's budget is not what you think

News of the Weird by Chuck Shepherd: Oh-So-Sweet Dreams | Pity the researcher

Greg Crosby: Ponder This

Declassified by Eli Lake: Comey is now the most powerful person in Washington

Alicia Colon: Planned Parenthood's Useful Idiots Avoid the Truth

L. Brent Bozell III: 'Saturday Night Live' Supports 9/11 Killers

Rich Lowry: The Health Care Albatross

Jonah Goldberg: Unveiling of budget proposal is just an empty ritual

Dick Morris: GOP Conservatives Must Back Trump

Kelly Riddell: Social warriors, sometimes

Charles Krauthammer: American democracy: Not so decadent after all

• Dry Bones by Ya'akov Kirschen

• Mallard Filmore