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Inspired Living
Moral masquerading
By Rabbi Hillel Goldberg

How to reveal holy men who aren't

As We Go to 'Press' ...
Gunmen kill 23 Christians in central Egypt
By Heba Farouk

Will the civilized world FINALLY do something about the muderous cancer passing itself off as a religion?????

Reality Check
Netanyahu's challenge with Trump
By Caroline B. Glick

The American president doesn't want to repeat the mistakes of his predecessors

War on Jihad
Religious Liberty Group Suing San Diego Schools Over CAIR-backed 'Islamophobia' Program
By John Rossomando

A new anti-bullying program approved by the San Diego school district is unconstitutional because it is solely about Muslim students, establishing them "as a privileged group within the school community," a lawsuit filed in federal court Tuesday says

Post-Mortem
Trump's controversial visit to the Western Wall and why it was so important to Jews
By: Ruth Eglash

The undercurrents that many missed

Post-Mortem II
Why Trump's trip to Israel was so crucial to his evangelical base
By: Sarah Pulliam Bailey

President Donald Trump's first international trip included meetings with global Catholic, Muslim and Jewish leaders, but American evangelicals paid special attention to his trip to Israel this week

Ess, Ess/ Eat, Eat!
The Kosher Gourmet
By Dorie Greenspan

A multicultural melange

Wellness
Fitness trackers largely inaccurate when counting calories, Stanford researchers say
By: Travis M. Andrews

"People are checking these inaccurate counts and they think they've earned a muffin or earned some ice cream and they're sabotaging their weight-loss program," said one scientist.

[ W O R T H 1 0 0 0 W O R D S ]

• Sean Delonas

• Robert Arial

• Joe Heller

• David Hitch

• Rick McKee

• Kirk Walters

• Michael Ramirez

[ T O D A Y I N H I S T O R Y ]

On this day in . . .

• 1868, the impeachment trial of U.S. President Andrew Johnson ends with Johnson being found not guilty by one vote

• 1889, opening of the first Eiffel Tower elevator to the public

• 1896, Charles Dow publishes the first edition of the Dow Jones Industrial Average

• 1897, Dracula, a novel by Irish author Bram Stoker is published

• 1908, at Masjed Soleyman, in southwest Persia, the first major commercial oil strike in the Middle East is made. The rights to the resource are quickly acquired by the United Kingdom

• 1938, the House Un-American Activities Committee begins its first session

• 1959, Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Harvey Haddix retires the first 36 Milwaukee Braves batters to face him, only to lose his bid for a perfect game in the 13th inning

• 1960, U.N. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge accused the Soviets of hiding a microphone inside a wood carving of the Great Seal of the United States that had been presented to the U.S. embassy in Moscow

• 1969, Apollo 10 returns to Earth after a successful eight-day test of all the components needed for the forthcoming first manned moon landing

• 1972, the United States and the Soviet Union sign the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty. (The U.S. withdrew from the treaty in 2002.)

• 1986, the European Community adopts the European flag

• 1998, the United States Supreme Court rules that Ellis Island, the historic gateway for millions of immigrants, is mainly in the state of New Jersey, not New York

• 2004, the United States Army veteran Terry Nichols is found guilty of 161 state murder charges for helping carry out the Oklahoma City bombing

• 2005, after a Newsweek article led to the deaths of American soldiers, an investigation by the military found no "credible evidence" that any copies of the Koran were flushed in a toilet

• 2007, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Iran was accelerating its nuclear program to become an exporter of nuclear fuel

• 2008, the United Nations' International Atomic Energy Agency said in a report that Iran's suspected nuclear weapons research was a mystery, "a matter of serious concern."

• 2010, the space shuttle Atlantis touched down at the Kennedy Space Center to end its final mission into space, 32nd flight over 25 years covering an estimated 120 million miles

• 2012, gruesome video posted online showed rows of dead Syrian children lying in a mosque in Houla, haunting images of what activists called one of the deadliest regime attacks yet in Syria's 14-month-old uprising. ALSO: International space station astronauts floated into the Dragon, a day after its heralded arrival as the world's first commercial supply ship

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