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"Permissiveness is the principle of treating children as if they were adults; and the tactic of making sure they never reach that stage."

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Then & Now
How the exodus story created America
By Michael Freund

The impact of retelling powerful, inspiring history

You Can't Make This #@^! Up!
Trump is turning up in Passover seders
By Julie Zauzmer

Throughout the year, the average "progressive" Jew generally has limited -- if any -- connection to Jewish ritual. On one of Judaism's most holy nights, too many will be squandering their spiritual opportunity making a mockery; not connecting to the Divine

Am almost embarrassed to publish this! Only doing so to publicly make the distinction for those who don't know

Religion of Pieces
Dozens dead after Palm Sunday bombs rock Egyptian churches
By Heba Mahfouz & Sudarsan Raghavan

Learn what happened and then get outraged that few care enough to ... get outraged!

Ess, Ess/ Eat, Eat!
The Kosher Gourmet
By Paula Shoyer

Now, Passover and pie belong together (3 tantalizing recipes!)

Passionate Parenting
5 tips to help your child uncover their talents
By Norman Arvidsson

Every parent wants their child to grow as a successful person. Here's how to help them

Career Coach
Your success likely depends on people you don't know --- yet
By Gary A. Cohen

I am writing this article with an assumption that you want to grow in your career

[ W O R T H  1 0 0 0  W O R D S  ]

• Nate Beeler

• Chip Bok

• Daryl Cagle

• Bob Englehart

• Dave Granlund

• Dana Summers

• Gary Varvel

• Ed Wexler

• Michael Ramirez

Marilyn Penn: Their Finest: A Review

Peter Brookes: Military 'win' in Mosul only the start

[ T O D A Y  I N  H I S T O R Y ]

On this day in . . .

• 837, Halley's Comet and Earth experienced their closest approach to one another when their separating distance equalled 0.0342 AU (3.2 million miles)

• 1606, the Charter of the Virginia Company of London is established by royal charter by James I of England with the purpose of establishing colonial settlements in North America

• 1790, President George Washington signed into law the first United States Patent Act. ALSO: Merchant Robert Gray docked at Boston Harbor, becoming the first American to circumnavigate the globe. He sailed from Boston in September 1787

• 1849, William Hunt of New York patented the safety pin

• 1858, after the original Big Ben, a 14.5 tonne bell for the Palace of Westminster had cracked during testing, it is recast into the current 13.76 tonne bell by Whitechapel Bell Foundry

• 1865, during the American Civil War: A day after his surrender to Union forces, Confederate General Robert E. Lee addresses his troops for the last time

• 1912, The Titanic leaves port in Southampton, England for her first and only voyage

• 1953, Warner Brothers premieres the first 3-D film from a major American studio, entitled House of Wax

• 1957, Egypt reopened the Suez Canal to all shipping traffic. (The canal had been closed due to wreckage resulting from the Suez Crisis.)

• 1972, seventy-four nations sign the Biological Weapons Convention, the first multilateral disarmament treaty banning the production of biological weapons

• 2000, the Nasdaq plunged 258 points in its second-biggest drop, starting the dramatic fall-off in the value of technology stocks

• 2002, eight Israelis were killed by a practitioner of that "religion of peace" who blew himself up aboard a bus in Haifa

• 2007, two Russian cosmonauts and U.S. billionaire Charles Simonyi arrived at the international space station

• 2008, a Muslim terrorist ring plot to kidnap athletes and visitors during the Summer Olympics in Beijing was uncovered, Chinese officials said. Thirty-five suspects were arrested

• 2011, in the first remarks since his ouster, former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak denied allegations that he had used his position to amass wealth and property

• 2012, Former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum, R-Pa., suspended his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination

• 2016, a fireworks explosion at the Paravur Puttingal Devi Temple in Paravur, India, left 106 dead and 400 injured

[ I N S I G H T ]

Glenn Reynolds: Who the people?

News of the Weird by Chuck Shepherd: You don't say ...

Argus Hamilton's The News in Zingers!

Bruce Bialosky: How Secure Are Your Tax Returns?

Christine Emba: The problem with becoming an inspirational meme

Rich Lowry: The real reason for Trump's poor polls

Robert Barnes: Kagan tells Gorsuch that it all starts in the kitchen

Kelsey Snell: With a deadline looming, this time nobody is threatening to shut down the government

• James Hohmann: 13 questions raised by Trump's missile strikes on Syria

• Stephen Carter: Trump doesn't need Congress to strike in Syria

• Dan Balz: Betrayal of 'America First' pledges? Trump Nation confounded by Syrian foray

• Declassified by Eli Lake: Thank Trump for enforcing Obama's 'red line' in Syria

• Carol Morello: Trump officials tell Russia to drop its support for Syria's Assad

• Avi Selk: MSNBC host's conspiracy theory: What if Putin planned the Syrian attack to aid Trump?

Robert Kagan: What must come next in Syria

George Will: Experience America at the time of the Great War

• Dry Bones by Ya'akov Kirschen

• Mallard Filmore