Reality Check
Is there something wrong with a program that encourages in-marriage?
By Jonathan Tobin

A new study shows that the Birthright Israel program is having a positive impact on participants' decision to marry a Jewish partner. That has angered interfaith outreach advocates

Wellness
Why retirement isn't always a healthy choice
By Marta Zaraska

Assuming finances make retirement possible, research is mixed on how it may affect your health

Must-Know Info
Mailing gifts? Use these tips from the pros on boxing items properly
By Jura Koncius

Experts share advice on choosing the right box, packing materials and more

Ess, Ess/ Eat, Eat!
The Kosher Gourmet
By Ellie Krieger

This silky soup, a golden puree of carrots with curry spices and coconut milk, is supremely comforting, satisfying

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• Chip Bok

• A.F. Branco

• Tim Campbell

• Jeff Danziger

• Jeff Danziger BONUS!

• Matt Davies

• Bob Gorrell

• Joe Heller

• David Hitch

• Steve Kelley

• Jimmy Margulies

• Jimmy Margulies BONUS!

• Tom Stiglich

• Tom Stiglich

• Dana Summers

• Dana Summers BONUS!

• Michael Ramirez

• Michael Ramirez BONUS!

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On this day in . . .

• 69, the Roman Senate declares Vespasian as Roman emperor, the last in the Year of Four Emperors.

• 1620, William Bradford and the Mayflower Pilgrims land on what is now known as Plymouth Rock in Plymouth, Massachusetts

• 1826, American settlers in Nacogdoches, Mexican Texas, declare their independence, starting the Fredonian Rebellion

• 1832, the Egyptian-Ottoman War: Egyptian forces decisively defeat Ottoman troops at the Battle of Konya

• 1861, Public Resolution 82, containing a provision for a Navy Medal of Valor, is signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln.

• 1913, Arthur Wynne's "word-cross", the first crossword puzzle, is published in the New York World .

• 1937, Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the world's first full-length animated feature, premieres at the Carthay Circle Theater

• 1967, Louis Washkansky, the first man to undergo a heart transplant, dies in Cape Town, South Africa, after living for 18 days after the transplant

• 1968, Apollo program: Apollo 8 launched from the Kennedy Space Center, placing its crew on a lunar trajectory for the first visit to another celestial body by humans

• 1988, a bomb explodes on board Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, killing 270

• 1991, eleven of the 12 former Soviet republics proclaimed the birth of the Commonwealth of Independent States and the death of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

• 1995, the city of Bethlehem passes from Israeli to "Palestinian" control

• 1998, the shaky coalition of Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu collapsed when Israel's Parliament voted 81-30 to dissolve the government

• 2009, the U.S. government set a three-hour limit on the time airlines can keep passengers waiting on a tarmac without giving them food or letting them off the plane

• 2010, the Census Bureau announced that America's population on April 1 was 308,745,538, up from 281.4 million a decade earlier. ALSO: A divided Federal Communications Commission approved, 3-2, new rules known as "net neutrality" meant to prohibit broadband companies from interfering with Internet traffic flowing to their customers.

• 2011, Syrian forces battled army defectors and anti-government activists in a blaze of violence with a reported 3-day death toll of 230 people. Western intelligence said more than 10,000 Syrian soldiers deserted

• 2012, U.S. distributors said armored children's backpacks costing hundreds of dollars each were big sellers in the week since an elementary school massacre in Newtown, Conn.

• 2015, a Taliban attacker rammed a bomb-laden motorcycle into a joint NATO and Afghan patrol near the Bagram Airfield, killing six Americans in the deadliest attack on foreign troops since the previous August

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Mark Steyn: Catch-Up Conservatism

News of the Weird: Schemes

Rogue Report by Argus Hamilton (GOTTA GUFFAW; SUPER SIZED)

Richard Lederer's Verbivore: All about handy dandy, super duper rhyming words

Lenore Skenazy: Voltaire Was Right (About Elementary School Pickup Procedures)

Christopher F. Rufo: One of America's largest school districts claims that the U.S. education system is guilty of 'spirit murder' against black children

Ramesh Ponnuru: The wrong way to fight the death penalty

Christine Flowers: The place for eugenics in a civilized society

Seth Barron: The Politics of Affliction

Joel Zinberg, M.D., J.D: American innovative power's path to better days

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