Reality Check
Channukah 2020 would cast progressive elites as the villians
By Caroline Glick

Like the Hellenists of yesteryear, they insist that, to be accepted in polite society, Jews have to give up an essential part of their identity --- and their civil rights

Wellness
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Brain health is do-able

Must-Know Info
Thinking of Divorce? Before You Split, You Could Try This 1 Thing Instead
By Tonya Graser Smith, Board Certified Specialist in Family Law

A postnuptial agreement, or post-nup for short, could help you prepare for the future as you try to smooth things out. If things don't work out, then you'll be ready. Post-nups can even be helpful for happily married couples, in some cases

Ess, Ess/ Eat, Eat!
The Kosher Gourmet
By Becky Krystal

Quick-cooking brisket bulgogi brings rich Korean flavors to the table

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On this day in . . .

• 1620, passengers on the British ship Mayflower come ashore at modern-day Plymouth, Massachusetts, to begin their new settlement

• 1777, the new United States celebrates its first national day of thanksgiving, commemorating the American victory at the Battle of Saratoga after the surrender of General John Burgoyne and 5,000 British troops in October 1777. In proclaiming the first national day of thanksgiving, Congress wrote, "It is therefore recommended to the Legislative or executive Powers of these UNITED STATES, to set apart THURSDAY, the eighteenth Day of December next, for solemn THANKSGIVING and PRAISE; That at one Time and with one Voice the good People may express the grateful Feelings of their Hearts, and consecrate themselves to the Service of their Divine Benefactor…"

• 1865, the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified by Georgia, fulfilling the two-thirds requirement for ratification, and banning slavery in the United States

• 1892, the first performance of Tchaikovsky's ballet The Nutcracker is held at the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg

• 1916, the Battle of Verdun, the longest engagement of World War I, ends on this day after ten months and close to a million total casualties suffered by German and French troops

• 1932, the Chicago Bears defeated the Portsmouth Spartans 9-0 in the first ever NFL Championship Game. Because of a blizzard, the game was moved from Wrigley Field to the Chicago Stadium, the field measuring 80 yards long

• 1940, Adolf Hitler, ym"sh, ordered secret preparations for Nazi Germany to invade the Soviet Union. (Operation Barbarossa was launched in June 1941.)

• 1941, Japanese troops land in Hong Kong and a slaughter ensues

• 1944, during World War II: 77 B-29 Superfortress and 200 other aircraft of U.S. Fourteenth Air Force bomb Hankow, China, a Japanese supply base

• 1956, Japan was admitted to the United Nations

• 1957, the Shippingport Atomic Power Station in Pennsylvania, the first public, full-scale commercial nuclear facility to generate electricity in the United States, went on line. (It was taken out of service in 1982.)

• 1958, the world's first communications satellite, SCORE (Signal Communication by Orbiting Relay Equipment), nicknamed "Chatterbox," was launched by the United States aboard an Atlas rocket

• 1966, Saturn's moon Epimetheus is discovered by Richard L. Walker

• 1972, Nixon announces start of "Christmas Bombing" of North Vietnam

• 1987, Larry Wall releases the first version of the Perl programming language

• 1996, the Oakland, California school board passes a resolution officially declaring "Ebonics" a language or dialect

• 2003, a jury in Chesapeake, Va., convicted teenager Lee Boyd Malvo of two counts of capital murder in the Washington-area sniper shootings (he was later sentenced to life in prison without parole)

• 2007, the White House said President George W. Bush had approved "a significant reduction" in the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile, cutting it to less than one-quarter its size at the end of the Cold War

• 2008, Rwandan Col. Theoneste Bagosora was convicted of genocide by a U.N. court for his involvement in the 1994 massacre of 800,000 people.

• 2014, sternly warning the West it could not defang the metaphorical Russian bear, President Vladimir Putin promised to shore up the plummeting ruble and revive the economy within two years

• 2016, a practitioner of that "religion of peace" blew himself up outside a military camp in the southern Yemeni city of Aden, killing at least 52 soldiers; the Islamic State group’s Yemen-based affiliate claimed responsibility

• 2018, President Trump authorized the Defense Department to create a new Space Command, an effort to better organize and advance the military's operations in space

• 2019, the U.S. House of Representatives voted to impeach President Donald Trump, charging him with abusing the powers of the presidency and obstructing Congress

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