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PONDERABLE


"Not to transmit an experience is to betray it."

--- Elie Wiesel



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Thought
Holy 'trivialities'
By Rabbi Nathan Lopes Cardozo



Ever wonder what the essence of Jewish living is really all about?

A world-renowned lecturer and thinker sums it up succinctly




 




Reality Check
Tempting Middle East Mattis
By Caroline B. Glick


For success, the Secretary of Defense, who arrives today in Israel, must not embrace tautological reasoning





Most Pro-Israel Administration Ever?
Haley, in rotating presidency of the United Nations Security Council, is fighting hard to dissipate 'conventional wisdom'
By Kambiz Foroohar


The lady is a warrior and not scared to take on the world --- quite literally



Vindication
Norman Podhoretz has caused a sensation with his memoir of ambition. He's been vindicated, twice
By David Shribman


Norman Podhoretz's 'Making It' at 50



Ess, Ess/ Eat, Eat!
The Kosher Gourmet
By Diane Rossen Worthington


These easy, no-cooking-required dipping sauces become the center of the table and are a wonderful beginning to any repast (2 recipes)



Personal Growth
How to stay hopeful in a heartbreaking world
By Chakell Wardleigh




Are you exhausted from all the heartache in the world? This short article may give you some hope





Tech & Science
The War Over Cancer Patient Data
By Nikhil Swaminathan


Cancer data that reveals patterns among family history could speed up innovations and therapies for patients --- if the labs that own it will release it




[ W O R T H  1 0 0 0  W O R D S  ]

Nate Beeler

Chip Bok

Daryl Cagle

Dave Granlund

Rick McKee

Steve Sack

Dana Summers

Gary Varvel

Michael Ramirez


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On this day in . . .


1509, England's King Henry VII died; he was succeeded by his 17-year-old son, Henry VIII

1649, the Maryland Toleration Act, which provided for freedom of worship for all Christians, was passed by the Maryland assembly

1789, John Adams  was sworn in as the first vice president of the United States

1836, an army of Texans led by Sam Houston defeated the Mexicans at San Jacinto, assuring Texas independence

1898, the U.S. Congress, on April 25, recognizes that a state of war exists between the United States and Spain as of this date

1918, during World War I: German fighter ace Manfred von Richthofen, known as "The Red Baron", is shot down and killed over Vaux sur Somme in France

1945, during World War II: Soviet Union forces south of Berlin at Zossen attack the German High Command headquarters

1962, the Seattle World's Fair  (Century 21 Exposition) opens. It is the first World's Fair in the United States since World War II

1994, the first discoveries of extrasolar planets are announced by astronomer  Alexander Wolszczan

2000, the lower house of the Russian parliament overwhelmingly approved the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty

2005, Army Sgt. Hasan Akbar, a practitioner of that "religion of peace, was convicted by a military jury at Fort Bragg, N.C. of premeditated murder and attempted murder in an attack that killed two of his comrades and wounded 14 others in Kuwait. (He was later sentenced to death.)

2007, American billionaire Charles Simonyi returned to Earth from a dream voyage to the international space station, riding a Russian capsule to a soft landing in Kazakhstan. also: Professional sailor Reid Stowe and his girlfriend, Soanya Ahmad, set off from North Hoboken, New Jersey, on a 1,000-day, nonstop globe-girdling cruise. (Ahmad abandoned the cruise in Australia in Feb. 2008, saying she was plagued by seasickness and suspecting she was pregnant; Stowe completed the journey as he arrived in New York on June 17, 2010 and met his toddler son, Darshen, for the first time.)

2014, in the first Boston Marathon since the April 15, 2013, bombings that killed three people and injured 260, Meb Keflezighi became the first American man to win the race in more than three decades. Kenya's Rita Jeptoo won the women's division for the second straight year.



[ I N S I G H T ]

Wesley Pruden: The high price of Fox hunting

News of the Weird by Chuck Shepherd: The Continuing Crisis

Greg Crosby: Old

Katherine Tarbox: When O'Reilly humiliated a teen guest on-air --- me

L. Brent Bozell III: Hypocrisy in the Anti-O'Reilly Army

Rich Lowry: A Trump Victory on the Border

Jonah Goldberg: Death penalty opponents are being dishonest in their arguments

Max Ehrenfreund: Census: Young men are making much less than they did in 1975

Suzanne Fields: With Unexpected Snap, Theresa May Becomes Theresa Will

(Agree or not, THOUGHT PROVOKING) Joshua Muravchik & Jeffrey Gedmin: This is what the beginning of the end of democracy looks like

Mona Charen: March for Science

Charles Krauthammer: With North Korea, we do have cards to play

Dry Bones by Ya'akov Kirschen

Mallard Filmore



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