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The intersection of faith, culture and politics
Weekend of September 16-18, 2016

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PONDERABLE

"What is chutzpah? Going to the psychiatrist because of a split personality, and asking for a group rate."

--- Unknown

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Thought
Religiosity: The Greatest Chess Game on Earth
By Rabbi Nathan Lopes Cardozo

The great contemporary Jewish thinker brilliantly addresses those who mock observance of religious canon as "legalistic". He employs a metaphor even sophisticates will grasp

Reality Check
Twilight of American Jewry
By Caroline B. Glick

It is hard to know how Israel will be affected by the dramatic enfeeblement of the American Jewish community that we are now witnessing

Coupling
6 things every husband needs but is too afraid to tell his wife about
By Hannah Rose

Your husband has needs he is too afraid to tell you about. Here are 6 of them

Ess, Ess/ Eat, Eat!
The Kosher Gourmet
By Kristen Hartke

5 essential sauces that you can whip up in under five minutes each

Consumer Intelligence
7 Best Things to Buy at Dollar Stores
By Bob Niedt

You might be surprised by some of the items you can purchase for just a buck

Wellness
SURPRISE! Almost all men with early prostate cancer survive 10 years, regardless of treatment
By Laurie McGinley

Monitoring prostate cancer offers the same survival chance as surgery or radiation, but treatment reduces risk of spread of cancer

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

• Pat Bagley

• Lisa Benson

• John Cole

• Matt Davies

• John Deering

• Randall Enos

• David Fitzsimmons

• Bob Gorrell

• Jeff Koterba

• Jimmy Margulies

• Steve Sack

• Scott Stantis

• Michael Ramirez

Monica Crowley: The future depends on defeating paralyzed leaders

Peter Brookes: Russian bear just spoiling for fight

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

On this day in . . .

• 1620, the Mayflower left Plymouth, England, with 102 passengers, bound for America

• 1810, Mexico began its successful revolt against Spanish rule

• 1812, Russians set fire to Moscow shortly after midnight; the city is burned completely down days later

• 1887, the first game of softball was played in Chicago, Illinois

• 1908, General Motors was formed in Flint, Mich., by William Durant

• 1920, the Wall Street bombing: a bomb in a horse wagon explodes in front of the J.P.Morgan building in New York City --- 38 are killed with 400 injured

• 1940, President Roosevelt signed into law the Selective Training and Service Act, which set up the first peacetime military draft in U.S. history

• 1968, Republican presidential nominee Richard Nixon exclaimed, "Sock it to ME?" in a taped bit for the NBC-TV comedy program "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In"

• 1970, King Hussein of Jordan declares military rule due to the hijacking of four civilian airliners by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). This results in the formation of the Black September Palestinian paramilitary unit

• 1974, U.S. President Gerald Ford offered conditional amnesty to Vietnam draft evaders. He said they could return to the United States if they performed up to two years of public service

• 1975, the first prototype of the MiG-31 interceptor makes its maiden flight

• 1978, an earthquake hits the city of Tabas, Iran measuring 7.5-7.9 on the Richter scale killing about 25,000 people

• 1991, the trial of Panamanian "strongman" Manuel Noriega begins in the United States

• 1994, a U.S. federal court jury in Anchorage, Alaska, ordered Exxon to pay $5 billion dollars to the fishermen and natives whose lives were affected by the Exxon Valdez oil spill in 1989, largest award ever in a pollution case

• 1998, in his first news conference since the release of Kenneth Starr's graphic report, President Clinton said he'd told "the essential truth" about his affair with Monica Lewinsky; as for whether he might resign, Clinton responded that Americans "want me to go on."

• 1999, in southern Russia, an explosion described by authorities as the fourth massive terrorist attack in two weeks demolished an apartment building, killing at least 18 people. Practitioners of that "religion of peace" proudly took responsibility. ALSO: Congress doubled the U.S. presidential salary, from $200,000 a year to $400,000, effective in 2001

• 2001, President George W. Bush, speaking on the South Lawn of the White House, said there was "no question" Osama bin Laden and his followers were the prime suspects in the Sept. 11 attacks; Bush pledged the government would "find them, get them running and hunt them down."

• 2006, the Vatican said Pope Benedict XVI "sincerely" regretted offending Muslims with his reference to an obscure medieval text characterizing some of the teachings of Islam's founder as "evil and inhuman," but the statement stopped short of the apology demanded by Islamic leaders

• 2007, former NFL running back and actor O.J. Simpson was arrested and charged with robbery, assault, burglary and conspiracy in a Las Vegas armed robbery

• 2008, the Federal Reserve took the unprecedented step to seize control of the American International Group, one of the world's largest insurance firms, and agreed to lend AIG $85 billion, a figure that grew considerably over the weeks to come

• 2009, the U.S. Congress voted to officially rebuke Rep. Joe Wilson, R-S.C., for yelling, "You lie!" at U.S. President Barack Obama during a speech on healthcare reform. His charge, in time, would be proven correct

• 2011, President Barack Obama signed into law a major overhaul of the nation's patent system to ease the way for inventors to bring their products to market

• 2014, NASA awarded contracts totaling $6.8 billion for Boeing and SpaceX to build "space taxis" that can carry astronauts to the International Space Station starting in 2017

[ I N S I G H T ]