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--- Shekel HaKodesh

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Inspired Living
You're Invited . . .
By Dr. Erica Brown

This meditation's wisdom -- if internalized -- will leave you changed

Americana
At the new, 30,000-square-foot National Museum of American History: Lessons in applied faith
By Sadie Dingfelder

Smithsonian museum re-opens with a display titled "Religion in Early America".

Will strict church-state separatists have a (non-kosher) cow?

What The #$@&%*!?
People are injecting themselves with blood to get high now
By Sarah Fecht

Because we ran out of other terrible ideas

Coupling
Is shame ruining intimacy in your marriage?
By Kim Giles & Nicole Cunningham

You aren't alone. Understand -- and how to overcome -- your situation

It Could Happen to You
When he became moody and delusional, doctors feared dementia. His family doubted it. Were they ever right!
By Sandra G. Boodman

Acting on initial diagnosis could have ended tragically

Ess, Ess/ Eat, Eat!
The Kosher Gourmet
By Bonnie S. Benwick

Pretty, delicious, and healthy. Ranginak is a Persian no-bake that takes the cake

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• Chip Bok

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• Bob Gorrell

• Jerry Holbert

• Jeff Koterba

• Rick McKee

• Gary Varvel

• Michael Ramirez

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On this day in . . .

• 1611, the mutinous crew of Henry Hudson's fourth voyage sets Henry, his son and seven loyal crew members adrift in an open boat in what is now Hudson Bay; they are never heard from again

• 1683, William Penn signs friendship treaty with Lenni Lenape Indians in Pennsylvania

• 1794, Empress Catherine II of Russia grants Jews permission to settle in Kiev

• 1812, Great Britain revokes the restrictions on American commerce, thus eliminating one of the chief reasons for going to war

• 1836, Congress approved the Deposit Act, which contained a provision for turning over surplus federal revenue to the states

• 1860, the United States Congress establishes the Government Printing Office

• 1868, Christopher Latham Sholes received a patent for his "Type-Writer"

• 1926, the College Board administers the first SAT exam

• 1931, aviators Wiley Post and Harold Gatty took off from New York on the first round-the-world flight in a single-engine plane

• 1938, the Civil Aeronautics Authority was established

• 1947, the Senate joined the House in overriding President Truman's veto of the Taft-Hartley Act, a federal law that serves as a great impediment to the activities and power of labor unions

• 1967, President Johnson and Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin held the first of two meetings in Glassboro, N.J.

• 1972, President Nixon and White House chief of staff H.R. Haldeman discussed a plan to use the CIA to obstruct the FBI's Watergate investigation. (Revelation of the tape recording of this conversation led to Nixon's resignation in 1974.)

• 1992, John Gotti is sentenced to life in prison after the 1985 murder of Paul Castellano

• 1996, Congressional Democrats unveiled a "families first" legislative package aimed at winning middle class voters and retaking Capitol Hill

• 1999, a divided Supreme Court dramatically enhanced states' rights in a trio of decisions that eroded Congress' power

• 2000, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, during a visit to South Korea, said American troops would remain in the country indefinitely to maintain strategic stability in the Pacific area

• 2003, a divided Supreme Court, in a 5-4 decision, allowed the nation's colleges and universities to select students based in part on race. ALSO: The Supreme Court said the government could require public libraries to equip computers with anti-pornography filters

• 2004, in a major retreat, the United States abandoned an attempt to win a new exemption for American troops from international prosecution for war crimes --- an effort that had faced strong opposition because of the Iraqi prisoner abuse scandal

• 2005, former Ku Klux Klansman Edgar Ray Killen was sentenced to 60 years in prison for the 1964 Mississippi slayings of three civil rights worker

• 2008, Seattle's Felix Hernandez hit the first grand slam by an American League pitcher in 37 years, then departed with a sprained ankle before he could qualify for a win in the Mariners' 5-2 victory over the New York Mets

• 2010, U.S. Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal resigned as commander of U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan after he and senior aides made disparaging remarks in a magazine interview about administration officials. Gen. David Petraeus, leader of the Central Command, succeeded McChrystal, who formally retired July 23 and received the Defense Distinguished Service Medal from Defense Secretary Robert Gates

• 2013, daredevil Nik Wallenda walked on a 2-inch thick cable across the Little Colorado River Gorge near the Grand Canyon in Arizona -- 1,500 feet above the gorge -- in just under 23 minutes. ALSO: Edward Snowden, the National Security Agency contractor behind the disclosures of the U.S. government's sweeping surveillance programs, left Hong Kong for Moscow with the stated intention of seeking asylum in Ecuador; however, Snowden ended up remaining in Moscow

• 2016, Britain voted to leave the European Union after a bitterly divisive referendum campaign, toppling Prime Minister David Cameron, who had led the campaign to keep Britain in the EU. ALSO: The Supreme Court deadlocked 4-4 on President Barack Obama's immigration plan to help millions ofillegals, effectively killing it. AND: In a narrow victory for affirmative action, the Supreme Court upheld, 4-3, a University of Texas program that took account of race in deciding whom to admit.

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