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People of the Book
Boring Seder? Next Year, Make It SUPER
By A. Shreiber

You read it here first!

Veteran Batman Comics editor, Jordan B. "Gorf" Gorfinkel, is fast at work on the Passover Haggadah Graphic Novel. It will be a stunning -- and traditional -- rendering of the Seder text suitable for both Jews and gentiles alike


 

Human Side of the News
Evicted Israeli pioneers wait and wait for Netanyahu's promised new home
By Ruth Eglash

Residents of the Israeli-destroyed Jewish community of Amona keep the faith but are miffed

OOPS --- Mistaken Me!
The false promise of being a 'cool aunt'
By Maria Teresa Hart

Some advice to those contemplating it

How Can You Say 'No'?
10 tools for under $10 (74 percent off)
By JWR staff

It's the size of a credit card and fits in your wallet. Contains: Serrated knife, Bottle opener, Big slotted screwdriver, Small slotted screwdriver, Compass, Magnifier, Tweezers, Toothpick, Ruler, Position wrench

Wealth Strategies
5 Good Dividend Stocks Owned by Bill Gates
By Dan Burrows

After sifting through the publicly disclosed holdings in the billionaire's personal and charitable portfolios, we identified five of the most attractive dividend stocks

Ess, Ess/ Eat, Eat!
The Kosher Gourmet
By Sheela Prakash

This creamy, dreamy weeknight pasta dish is proudly all frills and no fuss

Wellness
Links of diet soda to higher risk of stroke, dementia
By Fred Barbash

Which is worse, being obese or severely stunted?

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• Sean Delonas

• Sean Delonas BONUS!

• Lisa Benson

• Chip Bok

• Jerry Holbert

• Jeff Koterba

• Jimmy Margulies

• Steve Sack

• Dana Summers

• Gary Varvel

• Michael Ramirez

Rachel Raskin-Zrihen: Melting snowflakes endanger U.S.

Neil Steinberg: Bebe Vio raises her foil against anti-vax hysteria

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On this day in . . .

• 1704, "Boston News-Letter," the first successful newspaper in US, forms

• 1800, Congress approved a bill establishing the Library of Congress

• 1833, Jacob Evert and George Dulty patent soda fountain (American dating customs are forever altered)

• 1877, federal troops were ordered out of New Orleans, ending the North's post-Civil War rule in the South

• 1897, the first reporter, William Price (of The Washington Star), is assigned to White House

• 1898, Spain declared war on the United States after rejecting America's ultimatum to withdraw from Cuba

• 1915, the Ottoman Turkish Empire began the brutal mass deportation of Armenians during World War I

• 1932, in the Free State of Prussia, the Nazi Party gained a plurality of seats in parliamentary elections

• 1953, British statesman Winston Churchill was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II

• 1961, JFK accepts "sole responsibility" following Bay of Pigs

• 1962, Sandy Koufax's second 18-strikeout game

• 1968, leftist students at Columbia University in New York began a weeklong occupation of several campus buildings

• 1970, the People's Republic of China launched its first satellite, which kept transmitting a song, "The East is Red"

• 1980, the United States launched an abortive attempt to free the American hostages in Iran being held by practitioners of that "relgion of peace", a mission that resulted in the deaths of eight U.S. servicemen

• 1981, IBM introduced its first personal computer

• 1987, genetically altered bacteria, designed to prevent frost damage, were sprayed on a California strawberry field in the first test of such biotechnology in nature

• 1990, the space shuttle Discovery blasted off from Cape Canaveral, Fla., carrying the $1.5 billion Hubble Space Telescope

• 1996, the main assembly of the Palestine Liberation Organization voted to revoke clauses in its charter that called for an armed struggle to destroy Israel. They never implemented it. ALSO: The Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996, Pub. L. No. 104-132, 110 Stat. 1214, (also known as AEDPA) is an act of Congress signed into law on April 24, 1996. The bill was introduced by former Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole, passed with broad bipartisan support by Congress (91-8-1 in the United States Senate, 293-133-7 in the House of Representatives) following the 1990s World Trade Center and Oklahoma City bombings, and signed into law by President Bill Clinton

• 1997, with ratification by the U.S. Senate, the United States became the 75th country to approve the Chemical Weapons Convention

• 2001, the Supreme Court ruled, 5-4, that police can arrest and handcuff people for minor traffic offenses

• 2007, European astronomers announced they had found a potentially habitable planet outside the solar system. ALSO: Toyota overtook General Motors as No. 1 in global vehicle sales from January to March largely because of increased demand for fuel-efficient cars

• 2008, the White House accused North Korea of assisting Syria's secret nuclear program, saying a Syrian nuclear reactor destroyed by Israel in 2007 was not intended for "peaceful purposes."

• 2011, upset over U.S. drone attacks against insurgents in their territory, Pakistanis staged a sit-in to block supplies for NATO forces in Afghanistan

• 2012, President Barack Obama went after the college vote, telling students at the University of North Carolina that he and first lady Michelle Obama had "been in your shoes" and didn't pay off their student loans until eight years ago

• 2014, the tiny Pacific nation of the Marshall Islands took on the United States and the world's eight other nuclear-armed nations with an unprecedented lawsuit demanding they meet their obligations toward disarmament and accusing them of "flagrant violations" of international law.

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Victor Davis Hanson: The Tar Pits Abroad (THOUGHT PROVOKING)

News of the Weird by Chuck Shepherd: The Passing Parade

The News In Zingers by Argus Hamilton

Harry Lewis: As a former Harvard dean, I decry its new Puritanism

Bernard Goldberg: The Real Villain in the United Incident? Trump

Paul Greenberg: Letter from the madhouse

Manuel Roig-Franzia & Ben Terris: 'The mission was to bring down Bill O'Reilly': The final days of the cable superstar

Steven Mufson: Saudi Arabia, a kingdom built on oil, being forced to plan a future beyond it

Bruce Bialosky: While MSM Focuses on Insignificant Alt-Right, They Should Be All Over the Black Bloc

Danielle Paquette: America's manliest industries are all competing for women

• Bank robber turned Georgetown law professor is just getting started on his goals

• How a lab chemist went from 'superwoman' to disgraced saboteur of more than 20,000 drug cases

Aaron Blake: Trump voters don't have buyer's remorse, but Hillary Clinton voters do

(RUSSIAN JOURNO) Leonid Bershidsky: Influencing U.S. Elections? Recent revelations suggest American intelligence doesn't understand who has influence in Moscow

Kristine Phillips: The history of the first 100 days - and why Trump is right about the 'ridiculous standard'

Matt Zapotosky: Sessions takes step toward enforcing threat to strip funding from 'sanctuary cities'

Debra J. Saunders: Taking Trump Seriously and Literally

George Will: The 'Oh, never mind' president

• Dry Bones by Ya'akov Kirschen

• Mallard Filmore