The Incredible Shrinking People
Searching for meaning behind an empty metaphor
By Jonathan Tobin

Alternative Seders were once outliers. If they become mainstream, what does that portend for the future of American Jewry?

Reality Check
What Exactly Is Terrorism? Why Words Matter
By Abigail R. Esman

NOT semantics.

After a recent bombing spree in Austin, and last month's school shooting in Florida, some wonder why such attacks aren't labeled terrorism. There's a missing, but significant, element.

World Review
Relief for UK's May as Russia, racism turn up heat on Corbyn
By Thomas Penny, Robert Hutton & Aine Quinn

NOT semantics.

In the see-saw world of British politics, Prime Minister Theresa May is on the way back up, buoyed by international support for her stand against Russia, just as opposition Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn is struggling with accusations of anti-Semitism

Passionate Parenting
What you should do if your child is a 'quitter'
By William Stixrud

The author, a neuropsychologist, hears questions like this all the time. Here is his advice

Consumer Intelligence
How to avoid losing it over lost luggage
By Christopher Elliott

The key is understanding what your rights are when an airline loses your bag

Wellness
Health portals give patients data, dread
By Sandra G. Boodman

The promise and the perils of a largely unexamined transformation in the way growing numbers of Americans receive sensitive --- sometimes life-changing - medical information

The Kosher Gourmet
Eat, Eat!
By Bonnie S. Benwick

This quick fish stew is light and easy --- and only the flavor lingers

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• Chip Bok

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On this day in . . .

• 1797, Nathaniel Briggs was awarded a patent for the washing machine

• 1802, Heinrich Wilhelm Matthaus Olbers discovers 2 Pallas, the second asteroid known to man

• 1809, the Peninsular War: France defeats Spain in the Battle of Medelin

• 1834, the U.S. Senate voted to censure President Jackson for the removal of federal deposits from the Bank of the United States

• 1854, during the Crimean War, Britain and France declared war on Russia

• 1881, P.T. Barnum and James A. Bailey merged their circuses to form "The Greatest Show on Earth"

• 1898, the Supreme Court ruled that a child born in the United States to Chinese immigrants was a U.S. citizen

• 1930, the names of the Turkish cities of Constantinople and Angora were changed to Istanbul and Ankara

• 1935, the notorious Nazi propaganda film "Triumph des Willens" (Triumph of the Will), directed by Leni Riefenstahl, premiered in Berlin with Adolf Hitler, ym"sh, present

• 1939, the Spanish Civil War ended as Madrid fell to the forces of Francisco Franco

• 1942, during World War II, British naval forces raided the Nazi-occupied French port of St. Nazaire

• 1946, the United States State Department releases the Acheson-Lilienthal Report, outlining a plan for the international control of nuclear power

• 1978, the US Supreme Court hands down 5-3 decision in Stump v. Sparkman, 435 U.S. 349, a controversial case involving involuntary sterilization and judicial immunity

• 1979, operators of Three Mile Island's Unit 2 nuclear reactor outside of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania fail to recognize that a relief valve in the primary coolant system has stuck open following an unexpected shutdown. As a result, enough coolant drains out of the system to allow the core to overheat and partially melt down

• 1959, the State Council of the People's Republic of China dissolves the Government of Tibet

• 1991, just days before the 10th anniversary of the attempt on his life, former U.S. President Ronald Reagan endorsed a seven-day waiting period for handgun purchases, reversing his earlier opposition

• 1993, Russian President Boris Yeltsin survived an impeachment vote by the Congress of People's Deputies

• 1996, Congress passed the line-item veto, giving the president power to cut government spending by scrapping specific programs. ALSO: The space shuttle Atlantis' astronauts said goodbye to the crew of Russia's space station Mir and then flew off, leaving Shannon Lucid behind for a five-month stay in orbity

• 2001, the authors of a book on the Oklahoma City bombing revealed that during prison interviews, Timothy McVeigh had shown no remorse for what happened, and called the 19 children who died "collateral damage"

• 2002, the Arab League, meeting in Beirut, Lebanon, agreed on a peace plan that offered Israel normal relations in exchange for a full withdrawal from war-won lands and a Palestinian state

• 2005, the Colorado Supreme Court threw out the death penalty in a r ape-and-murder case because five of the jurors had consulted the Bible and quoted Scripture during deliberations

• 2006, the U.S. Senate voted to prohibit lobbyists from giving lawmakers gifts and meals

• 2008, North Korea fired short-range missiles off its western coast, a move the United States said wasn't illegal but a diversion from the work the nation needs to do to finish a complete declaration of its nuclear program

• 2009, the space shuttle Discovery landed at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida after a 13-day mission to the International Space Station during which the ISS was brought up to full power with the installation of its fourth set of solar wings

• 2011, vigorously defending American attacks in Libya, President Barack Obama declared in a nationally broadcast address that the United States intervened to prevent a slaughter of civilians. Yet he ruled out targeting Moammar Gadhafi, warning that trying to oust him militarily would be a mistake as costly as the war in Iraq

• 2013, teachers in the United States topped all other groups except physicians in how they rate their lives overall, a Gallup poll indicated. Among other things, Gallup's "Well-being Index" said teachers are the most likely to say they "smiled or laughed a lot," experienced happiness or enjoyment and learned or do "something new" each day

• 2015, two Russians and an American floated into the International Space Station, eight hours after launching from Russia's space facility in Kazakhstan; Mikhail Kornienko and Scott Kelly spent 342 days aboard the orbiting laboratory, while Russia's Gennady Padalka stayed for six months

• 2017, President Donald Trump proposed immediate budget cuts of $18 billion from programs like medical research, infrastructure and community grants so that U.S. taxpayers, not Mexico, could cover the down payment on the border wall. ALSO: Wells Fargo said it would pay $110 million to settle a class-action lawsuit over up to 2 million accounts its employees opened for customers without getting their permission

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