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Jew v. Jew
Platitudes and Bromides: No Wonder I'm Confused
By Rabbi Emanuel Feldman


American politicians, including non-Jewish ones, are now being recruited to pressure Israel amid an internal squabble between Judaism's traditionalists and their more secular counterparts.

Most dispatches offer one view of the controversy. Here's another --- and a very different one at that





War on Jihad
First step to Israel controling holy site?
By Ruth Eglash


Jewish state ups security measures after Muslims murder yet again

 





Prevent Misery
If your relationship has any of these red flags, run the other way
By Lindsey Miller

It might be charming most of the time, but don't ruin your life by ignoring any of these signs

You definitely know somebody who can gain from this article



Good News
It's a nightmare for grocery stores, but your food bills may soon be signifacntly lower
By Caitlin Dewey


Shoppers have never had so many companies fighting to offer the lowest price



Medical Mystery
Doctors made light of her situation. Their ignorance could have resulted in death
By Sandra G. Boodman



Many fail to recognize the symptoms of this potentially fatal disease,which strikes adults as well as children.

Now, you won't be among them



Ess, Ess/ Eat, Eat!
The Kosher Gourmet
By Hetty McKinnon

The unexpected genius of 'sweet potato hummus'


[ W O R T H  1 0 0 0  W O R D S  ]

Sean Delonas

Chip Bok

Bob Gorrell

Jerry Holbert

Taylor Jones

Jeff Koterba !

Steve Sack

Dana Summers

Gary Varvel

Michael Ramirez


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On this day in . . .


1821, Spain ceded Florida to the United States

1898, during the Spanish-American War, Spanish troops in Santiago, Cuba, surrendered to U.S. forces

1917, the British royal family adopted the name "Windsor"

1918, the RMS Carpathia, the ship that rescued the 705 survivors from the RMS Titanic, is sunk off Ireland by the Unterseeboot 55 with 5 lives lost

1936, an Armed Forces rebellion against the recently-elected leftist Popular Front government of Spain starts the Spanish civil war

1938, Douglas Corrigan, the last of the early glory-seeking fliers, took off from Floyd Bennett field in Brooklyn, ostentatiously pointed west. However, a few minutes later, he made a 180-degree turn and vanished into a cloudbank to the puzzlement of a few onlookers Twenty-eight hours later, Corrigan landed his plane in Dublin, Ireland, stepped out of his plane, and exclaimed, "Just got in from New York. Where am I?" He claimed that he lost his direction in the clouds and that his compass had malfunctioned. The authorities didn't buy the story and suspended his license, but Corrigan stuck to it to the amusement of the public on both sides of the Atlantic. By the time "Wrong Way" Corrigan and his crated plane returned to New York by ship, his license suspension had been lifted, he was a national celebrity, and a mob of autograph seekers met him on the gangway.

1945, during World War II: Potsdam Conference. At Potsdam, New York, President Harry S. Truman, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, the three main Allied leaders, begin their final summit of the war. The meeting will end on August 2.

1955, Disneyland televises its grand opening in Anaheim, California. ALSO: Arco, Idaho, a town of 1,300 people, became the first community in the world to receive all its light and power from atomic energy

1968, revolution in Iraq when Abdul Rahman Arif was overthrown and the Ba'ath Party installed as the governing power in Iraq with Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr as the new Iraqi President

1975, an Apollo spaceship docked with a Soyuz spacecraft in orbit in the first superpower linkup of its kind

1979, Nicaraguan President Anastasio Somoza resigned and fled into exile in Miami

1996, TWA Flight 800, a Paris-bound Boeing 747, exploded and crashed off Long Island, N.Y., shortly after leaving John F. Kennedy International Airport, killing all 230 people aboard

1997, the F.W. Woolworth Company closes after 117 years in business

1998, a diplomatic conference adopts the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, establishing a permanent international court to prosecute individuals for genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and the crime of aggression. ALSO: Nicholas II, last of the Romanov czars, was buried in Russia 80 years after he and his family were executed by the Bolsheviks. AND: A 23-foot-high tsunami hit the northern coast of Papua New Guinea, killing more than 2,000 people

2002, a double suicide bombing by practitioners of that "religion of peace" in Tel Aviv killed three. ALSO: In Britain, a one-day strike by 750,000 municipal employees closed schools, libraries and recreation centers in their first national walkout in more than two decades

2005, the Iraqi Special Tribunal filed its first criminal case against Saddam Hussein for a 1982 massacre of Shiite

2006, an earthquake under the Indian Ocean triggered a tsunami that struck the Indonesian island of Java, killing about 700 people. Around 200 were reported missing and thousands were rendered homeless

2007, the Dow Jones industrial average crossed 14,000 for the first time before ending the day at 13,918.22

2012, the Boy Scouts of America announced a policy of banning homosexuals from membership would remain in effect. They caved to pressure in 2013

2014, Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 carrying 298 people was shot down over rebel-controlled territory in eastern Ukraine near the Russian border. All aboard the Boeing 777 were killed, including dozens of children

2016, three Baton Rouge law enforcement officers investigating a report of a man with an assault rifle were killed, less than two weeks after a black man was shot and killed by police in the city in a confrontation that sparked nightly protests that reverberated nationwide. (The gunman was killed by tactical officers.)


[ I N S I G H T ]

Mark Steyn: Lutey Tunes

News of the Weird by Chuck Shepherd: Latest Human Rights

Argus Hamilton's News in Zingers!

Feminist scientists say citing research by straight, white men promotes 'a system of oppression'

Robert Barnes: A Supreme Court mystery: Has Roberts embraced same-sex marriage ruling?

Jeff Jacoby: A nation on the verge of a nervous breakdown

Bernard Goldberg: Political realities and vulnerabilities

James Mcauley: Thank you, dear Donald': Why Macron invited Trump to France

Cheryl K. Chumley: Nancy Pelosi's hilarious, hypocritical tweet on House dress

Dick Morris: How to Cushion Impact of Medicaid Cuts

Andrew C. McCarthy: The Donald Trump Jr. emails definitely show collusion. But collusion in what?

Declassified by Eli Lake: The dirt diggers at the heart of the Russia scandal

Ed Rogers: Point fingers and feign outrage all you want, Dems. The holy grail of a Trump crime is still missing and you darn well know it

Josh Zeitz: The night liberalism failed

Fred Hiatt: Time for Democrats to stop advocating irresponsible policies

George Will: Congress is fleeing its warmaking responsibilities

Dry Bones by Ya'akov Kirschen

Mallard Filmore



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