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Wednesday, July 19, 2017

CALCULATED ACTS OF KINDNESS

Today, is my father's 10th yahrtzeit, anniversary of his death. It is a day of special merit for his eternal soul.

If you can, please do an extra act of kindness in the merit and memory of, using the Jewish formula, Yehuda ben (Hebrew: son of) Leib Hirsch.

No, you don't have to be Jewish.

The act(s), which will also help make our world a better place, is totally up to you.

It could be holding a door open when you are being rushed, not getting angry when you are justified, wishing somebody a "good morning" or "good night" --- basically, anything you feel comfortable doing.

It would mean so much to me, my family --- and will benefit my dad.

In gratitude and friendship,
Binyamin L. Jolkovsky,
Editor in Chief

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PONDERABLE

"Whoever says you don't have something; he has nothing. But he stands in relation."

--- Martin Buber

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On this day in . . .

• 1553, Lady Jane Grey is replaced by Mary I of England as Queen of England after having that title for just nine days

• 1692, five women are hanged for witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts

• 1843, Brunel's steamship the SS Great Britain is launched, becoming the first ocean-going craft with an iron hull or screw propeller and also becoming the largest vessel afloat in the world

• 1848, "bloomers," a radical departure in women's clothing, were introduced to the first women's rights convention in Seneca Falls, N.Y. They were named after Amelia Jenks Bloomer

• 1879, Doc Holliday kills for the first time after a man shoots up his New Mexico saloon

• 1912, a meteorite with an estimated mass of 190 kg explodes over the town of Holbrook in Navajo County, Arizona causing approximately 16,000 pieces of debris to rain down on the town

• 1919, after Peace Day celebrations marking the end of World War I, ex-servicemen rioted and burnt down Luton Town Hall, in the UK

• 1942, during World War II: Battle of the Atlantic --- German Grand Admiral Karl Donitz orders the last U-boats to withdraw from their United States Atlantic coast positions in response to the effective American convoy system

• 1969, John Fairfax of Britain arrived at Fort Lauderdale, Fla., to become the first person to row across the Atlantic alone

• 1979, the Nicaraguan capital of Managua fell to Sandinista guerrillas, two days after President Anastasio Somoza fled the country

• 1981, in a private meeting with U.S. President Ronald Reagan, French Prime Minister Francois Mitterrand reveals the existence of the Farewell Dossier, a collection of documents showing that the Soviets had been stealing American technological research and development

• 1983, the first three-dimensional reconstruction of a human head in a CT (computed tomography) is published

• 1997, the IRA declared a cease-fire in its long war to force Britain out of Northern Ireland

• 2000, President Bill Clinton shuttled between Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, ym"sh, and his own experts during peace talks at Camp David after delaying his departure for an economic summit in Japan

• 2004, Sandy Berger, former national security adviser to former U.S. President Bill Clinton and campaign adviser to Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry, admitted taking classified documents from the National Archives but said he did so inadvertently

• 2006, President George W. Bush issued his first presidential veto, rejecting a bill that could have multiplied federal money for embryonic stem cell research

• 2007, on Wall Street, the Dow Jones industrial average closed at more than 14,000 for the first time. ALSO: A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit brought by former CIA operative Valerie Plame, who was demanding money from Bush administration officials she blamed for leaking her agency identity

• 2011, summoned by British lawmakers to answer for a phone hacking and bribery scandal at one of his tabloids, media mogul Rupert Murdoch said he was humbled and ashamed, but accepted no responsibility for wrongdoing

• 2012, a calm-looking Syrian President Bashar Assad made his first appearance on state TV a day after a bomb killed some of his top lieutenants. ALSO: Russia and China again vetoed a Western-backed U.N. resolution aimed at pressuring Assad's government to end the escalating civil war in Syria

• 2016, Republicans meeting in Cleveland nominated Donald Trump as their presidential standard-bearer; in brief videotaped remarks, Trump thanked the delegates, saying: "This is a movement, but we have to go all the way."

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