Inspired Living
The Golden Calf: How and why the ancient Israelites descended
By Rabbi Dr. Tzvi Hersh Weinreb

Most objective readers of the Bible regard the incident as bizarre behavior. The author, a rabbinic scholar and clinical psychologist, ofers a very different take.

Eye-opening observations that will (or should) impact your identity no matter what your professed faith

Reality Check
Whatever happened to the ACLU?
By Jonathan Tobin

Jewish supporters need to ask why the civil-liberties defense group is supporting BDS and anti-Semitism while abandoning its First Amendment absolutism?

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

This dish of warm, cinnamon-scented pears with a nutty crumble topping makes you feel good before you even take a bite

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On this day in . . .

• 1753, February 17 is followed by March 1, as Sweden moves from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar

• 1801, an electoral tie between Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr is resolved when Jefferson is elected President of the United States and Burr Vice President by the United States House of Representatives

• 1819, the United States House of Representatives passes the Missouri Compromise, between the pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions in the United States Congress, involving primarily the regulation of slavery in the western territories

• 1867, the first ship passes through the Suez Canal

• 1871, the victorious Prussian Army parades though Paris, France after the end of the Siege of Paris during the Franco-Prussian War

• 1879, Woolworth, the first chain store, opened in Utica, N.Y.

• 1913, The Armory Show opens at New York City, displaying works of artists who are to become some of the most influential painters of the early 20th Century

• 1924, in Miami, Florida, Johnny Weissmuller sets a new world record in the 100-yard freestyle swimming competition with a time of 52-2/5 seconds

• 1933, the Blaine Act ends Prohibition in the United States

• 1936, the world's first superhero, The Phantom, makes his first appearance in comics

• 1947, the Voice of America begins to transmit radio broadcasts into the Soviet Union

• 1959, the Daytona 500 was run for the first time. Lee Petty won the race

• 1964, in Wesberry v. Sanders the Supreme Court of the United States rules that congressional districts have to be approximately equal in population. Wesberry and the Court's later "one person, one vote" decisions had an extraordinary impact on the makeup of the House, on the content of public policy, and on electoral politics in general. However, it is quite possible to draw any district lines in accord with the "one person, one vote" rule and, at the same time, to gerrymander them

• 1965, the Ranger 8 probe launches on it's mission to photograph the Mare Tranquillitatis region of the Moon in preparation for the manned Apollo missions. The "Sea of Tranquility" would become the site chosen for the Apollo 11 lunar landing

• 1972, President Richard M. Nixon departed on his historic trip to China

• 1974, Robert K. Preston, a disgruntled U.S. Army private, buzzes the White House with a stolen helicopter

• 1979, the Sino-Vietnamese War begins

• 1980, in one of the most dramatic upsets in Olympic history, the underdog U.S. hockey team, made up of collegians and second-tier professional players, defeated the defending champion Soviet team, regarded as the world's finest, 4-3 at the XIII Olympic Winter Games in Lake Placid, N.Y.

• 1992 , a court in Milwaukee, Wisconsin sentences serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer to life in prison

• 1993, the U.N. Security Council voted to form an international war crimes tribunal to try those accused of offenses during ethnic fighting in the former Yugoslavia

• 1996, in Philadelphia, world champion Garry Kasparov beats the Deep Blue supercomputer in a chess match

• 2000, a House panel said in a report that the program to inoculate all 2.4 million American military personnel against anthrax was based on "a paucity of science" and should be suspended; the Pentagon defended the program and vowed to continue the inoculations

• 2001, former Nation of Islam official Khalid Abdul Muhammad, known for his harsh rhetoric about Jews and whites, died at a hospital in Marietta, Ga., at age 53

• 2007, the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency said Iran had ignored a Security Council ultimatum to freeze uranium enrichment, and instead had expanded its program by setting up hundreds of centrifuges

• 2009, President Barack Obama signed a mammoth, $787 billion economic stimulus package into law in Denver; he also approved adding some 17,000 U.S. troops for the war in Afghanistan

• 2011, a defiant Moammar Gadhafi vowed to fight to his "last drop of blood" and roared at supporters to strike back against Libyan protesters to defend his embattled regime

• 2014, Ukraine's Parliament ousted President Viktor Yanukovych following a period of violence that killed scores of people

• 2018, defying his supporters in the National Rifle Association, President Donald Trump said the nation should keep assault rifles out of the hands of anyone under 21. ALSO: Authorities announced that the armed officer who was on duty at the Parkland, Florida school where a shooter killed 17 people never went into the building to engage the gunman. AND: A grand jury indicted Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens on a felony charge of invasion of privacy for allegedly taking a compromising photo of a woman with whom he had an affair in 2015; Greitens responded that he made a mistake but committed no crime. (He would resign on June 1 while facing potential impeachment over allegations of sexual and political misconduct.)

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Paul Kane: Dems now searching for candidates with a fresh face and interesting backgrounds that are short on legislative voting records

Robert Costa: Administration, regularly criticized for ignoring poor and race issues, pushing 'opportunity zones''

• Vandals damage wrong statue in effort to sanitize history

• George Mendonsa, identified as 'kissing sailor' in WWII victory photo, dies at 95

• As the last OSS spies die off, he's planning a museum to keep their legacy alive

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