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Monday, May 8, 2017

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"Disaster comes only because of ignorance."

---Rabbi Yehudah HaNasi, Talmud: Bava Basra

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Personal
I raised 12 children. Here's what it was (and is) like
By Varda Epstein

In case you ever wondered. The low -- and high -- lights of being a saintly mother

Liberty
Many religious freedom advocates and the ACLU share a similar view on Trump's executive order
By Sarah Pulliam Bailey

Now, that's telling

OOPS!
Did the 'Palestinian Nelson Mandela' just squander his, ahem, 'moral authority' for a handful of kosher cookies?
By Ruth Eglash

Terrorist couldn't resist (cookies) for his political resistance.

How do you say "OY VEY!" in Arabic?

Coupling
5 things you LOVE about your partner that could actually DESTROY your relationship
By David Snell

These could be the Trojan Horses of your marriage

Wellness
Yo-yo dieting isn't just counterproductive --- it could put you at risk
By Carrie Dennett, M.P.H., R.D.N.

Not to scare you, but many are unaware of the details of the danger.

This short article should be read and forwarded

Ess, Ess/ Eat, Eat!
The Kosher Gourmet
By M. Cathy Barrow

This party salad -- a luscious, layered symphony of flavors and colors -- happens in a loaf pan

[ W O R T H 1 0 0 0 W O R D S ]

• Lisa Benson

• Chip Bok

• Taylor Jones

• Steve Kelley

• Scott Stantis

• Gary Varvel

• Michael Ramirez

[ T O D A Y I N H I S T O R Y ]

On this day in . . .

• 1541, Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto reached the Mississippi River

• 1794, Antoine Lavoisier, the father of modern chemistry, was executed on the guillotine during France's Reign of Terror

• 1846, the first major battle of the Mexican-American War was fought at Palo Alto, Texas, with no clear victory for either side

• 1886, Atlanta pharmacist John Pemberton invented the flavor syrup for Coca-Cola

• 1879, George Selden of Rochester, N.Y., filed for the first patent for an automobile. It was granted in 1895

• 1945, President Harry S. Truman announced in a radio address that Nazi Germany's forces had surrendered in World War II, and that "the flags of freedom fly all over Europe."

• 1958, Vice President Richard Nixon was shoved, stoned, booed and spat upon by anti-American protesters in Lima, Peru

• 1970, anti-war protests took place across the United States and around the world; in New York, construction workers broke up a demonstration on Wall Street

• 1973, militant American Indians who had held the South Dakota hamlet of Wounded Knee for 10 weeks surrendered

• 1978, David R. Berkowitz pleaded guilty in a Brooklyn courtroom to murder, attempted murder and assault in connection with the "Son of Sam" shootings that had terrified New Yorkers

• 1984, the Soviet Union announced it would boycott the upcoming Summer Olympic Games in Los Angeles

• 1987, Gary Hart, dogged by questions about his personal life, including his relationship with Miami model Donna Rice, withdrew from the race for the Democratic presidential nomination

• 1997, President Clinton assured Central American leaders during a summit in Costa Rica that they need not fear mass deportations of immigrants who'd sought refuge in the United States during U.S.-backed conflicts

• 1999, the Citadel, South Carolina's formerly all-male military school, graduated its first female cadet, Nancy Ruth Mace

• 2002, FBI Director Robert Mueller told a Senate committee that an FBI memo from Phoenix warning that several Arabs were suspiciously training at a U.S. aviation school would not have led officials to the 9/11 hijackers even if they had followed up the warning with more vigor

• 2003, the Senate unanimously endorsed adding to NATO seven former communist nations: Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia. ALSO: A federal grand jury indicted Chinese-born California socialite Katrina Leung on charges that she had illegally taken, copied and kept secret documents obtained from an FBI agent. (A federal judge later dismissed the case against Leung, rebuking prosecutors for misconduct.) AND: A Russian-built cargo plane lost a door over Congo, hurling more than 100 Congolese soldiers and their families to their deaths

• 2004, the body of Nick Berg, a U.S. businessman killed by practitioners of that "religion of peace", was found near Baghdad. A videotape depicting his beheading was shown on the Internet three days later

• 2006, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad wrote to President Bush, proposing "new solutions" to their differences in the first letter from an Iranian head of state to an American president in 27 years

• 2007, bitter enemies from Northern Ireland's bloody past joined forces atop a new Northern Ireland government. ALSO: Six practitioners of that "religion of peace" were arrested on charges of plotting a killing spree at the U.S. Army's Fort Dix in New Jersey

• 2011, Christian-Muslim all-night clashes in Cairo killed at least 11 people and wounded hundreds as two churches were burned

• 2012, Richard Lugar, a U.S. senator for 36 years, was defeated by conservative Richard Mourdock in Indiana's Republican primary election.

• 2013, Jodi Arias was convicted of first-degree murder in a trial that became a cable TV and tabloid sensation. (In April, 2014, she was sentenced to life in prison.)

• 2014, Syrian rebels leveled a historic hotel being used as an army base in the northern city of Aleppo by detonating bomb-packed tunnels beneath it, killing a still-undetermined number of soldiers

• 2016, London's newly elected Muslim mayor, Sadiq Khan, paid respect to the millions of Jews slain in the Holocaust as his first public engagement in office - and received a hero's welcome from London's Jewish community at the end

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