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Archive
He wrote the songs that made our souls sing
By Binyamin L. Jolkovsky


Over the weekend, one of this century's most influential composers and singers of biblically themed (Chassidic) music passed away in Brooklyn at the age of 92.

Rabbi Ben Zion Shenker abhored the limelight.

In 2008, however, JWR's Gavriel Aryeh Sanders managed to score a rare interview with him in which he discusses the historic back story of one of his most popular songs, provided, which is known to stir the soul.

You need not be familiar with Jewish liturgy or have fluency in the Holy Tongue to be uplifted by this audio presentation.




   


Declassified
Trump's National Security Picks Want to Air Obama's Iran Secrets
By Eli Lake


For years, many Republicans and conservatives have charged that President Barack Obama was shielding embarrassing intelligence and policy details about Iran in order to support the nuclear deal reached last year



Coupling
9 reasons why your relationship is going nowhere
By Hannah Rose


Help save a marriage --- yours or a friend's





Complexities
A Nobel that helps explain the hole in a bagel
By Mark Buchanan


The 2016 winners in Physics seems to have left many people perplexed



Wellness
The breathing trick that can make you more productive
By Seth Porges


The idea that breathing exercises can somehow calm you down is an ancient one. But few people understand exactly how breathing can relieve stress and increase workplace productivity



Ess, Ess/ Eat, Eat!
The Kosher Gourmet
By Diane Rossen Worthington


Simple soup offers cozy comfort in cool weather


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Sean Delonas

Nate Beeler

Lisa Benson

Chip Bok

John Darkow

Bob Gorrell

Dave Granlund

Jake Fuller

Gary Varvel

Adam Zyglis

Michael Ramirez




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On this day in . . .


1620, Plymouth Colony settlers sign the Mayflower Compact

1783, in Paris, Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and François Laurent, Marquis d'Arlandes, make the first untethered hot air balloon flight

1861, Confederate President Jefferson Davis appoints Judah Benjamin secretary of war

1877, Thomas Edison announces his invention of the phonograph, a machine that can record and play sound

1905, Albert Einstein's paper, "Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy Content?", is published in the journal "Annalen der Physik". This paper reveals the relationship between energy and mass. This leads to the mass-energy equivalence formula E = mc2 (squared).

1941, the radio program King Biscuit Time is broadcast for the first time (it would later become the longest running daily radio broadcast in history and the most famous live blues radio program)

1953, authorities at the British Natural History Museum announce that the "Piltdown Man" skull, held to be one of the most famous fossil skulls in the world, was a hoax

1964, the Verrazano Narrows Bridge opens to traffic (at the time it was the world's longest suspension bridge). ALSO: Second Vatican Council: The third session of the Roman Catholic Church's ecumenical council closes

1969, US President Richard Nixon and Japanese Premier Eisaku Sato agree in Washington, DC on the return of Okinawa to Japanese control in 1972. Under terms of the agreement, the US is to retain its rights to bases on the island, but these are to be nuclear-free

1970, a joint Air Force and Army team raids the Son Tay prison camp in an attempt to free American POWs thought to be held there

1973, President Nixon's attorney, J. Fred Buzhardt, revealed the existence of an 18 1/2-minute gap in one of the White House tape recordings related to Watergate.

1980, a deadly fire breaks out at the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada (now Bally's Las Vegas). 87 people are killed and more than 650 are injured in the worst disaster in Nevada history

1995, the Dayton Peace Agreement was initialled in the Wright Patterson Air Force Base, near Dayton, Ohio, ending three and a half years of war in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The agreement was formally ratified in Paris, on December 14 that same year

1995, the Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 5,000 (5,023.55) for the first time

1985, Microsoft Windows 1.0 is released

1989, the start of the Velvet Revolution, when the number of protesters assembled in Prague, Czechoslovakia swells from 200,000 the day before to an estimated half-million

1998, President Clinton, visiting South Korea, warned North Korea to forsake nuclear weapons, and urged the North to seize "an historic opportunity" for peace with the South

1994, the Angolan government and UNITA rebels sign the Lusaka Protocol in Zambia, ending 19 years of civil war (localized fighting resumed the next year)

2002, 11 bus passengers were killed after a practitioner of that "religion of peace" blew himself up in a suicide bombing in Jerusalem

2006, Lebanon's industry minister, Pierre Gemayel, scion of Lebanon's most prominent Christian family, was assassinated in a brazen daytime hit by a practitioner of that "religion of peace"

2007, New Hampshire set its earliest-ever presidential primary, deciding on Jan. 8, 2008. ALSO: Officials announced the recall of more than a half-million pieces of Chinese-made children's jewelry contaminated with lead

2011, the United States and Britain imposed new sanctions on Iran because of its suspected pursuit of nuclear weapons

2012, a cease-fire was announced after eight days of fighting that officials said killed about 130 Palestinians and six Israelis. Hundreds of people were injured. Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak said he held Hamas responsible to keep the truce

2013, the U.S. Senate made a historic rules change that weakened the power of the filibuster, which opposition parties have used to slow or derail presidential nominations. The change cut the number of votes needed for approval of executive and most judicial nominees from 60 votes to 51. Sen. Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said the action was taken because Americans "believe the Senate is broken -- and I believe they are right."

2015, following the Muslim attacks in Paris, Belgium raised the terror alert in Brussels to the highest level after a "serious and imminent threat," closing the city's metro and encouraging people to avoid concerts, shopping centers and other crowded areas





[ I N S I G H T ]

Mark Steyn: Advice for the Loyal Opposition (SPOT ON)

News of the Weird by Chuck Shepherd: Well, that certainly explains it!

Argus Hamilton's The News in Zingers

The Fact Checker: The Truth Behind the Rhetoric: The claim that '99 percent of women have used birth control'

Jeff Jacoby: Eminent injustice in cranberry country

Mona Charen: Reconciliation

Michael Reagan: The Trump Transition Tizzy

(FOREIGNER'S VIEW) Leonid Bershidsky: Where to look for covert Russian influence

Kathleen Parker: 2016's biggest loser: Truth and consequences

Dan Balz: From an improbable to first independent president

Amber Phillips: 10 things to know about Sen. Jeff Sessions, Donald Trump's pick for attorney general

Bruce Bialosky: Thoughts vs. Feelings

Debra J. Saunders: 'Sanctuary' Means Career Criminals Can Run and Hide

Edward Luttwak: Enough hysterics. Donald Trump's foreign policy isn't reckless or radical

George Will: Higher education is awash with hysteria. That might have helped elect Trump

Dry Bones by Ya'akov Kirschen

Mallard Filmore

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