http://www.JewishWorldReview.com/ The intersection of faith, culture and politics Wednesday, April 9, 2008 *:-.,_,.-:*'``'*:-.,_,.-:*'``'*:-.,_,.-:**:-.,_,.-:*'``'*:-.,_,.-:* WELCOME to the newsletter read by, among others, Washington power brokers, editorial page editors, and society's most important and influential citizenry. THEY'RE in great company! **<>**<>**<>**<>****<>**<>**<>**<>** [ J E W I S H L I V I N G ] ---> past & present An all but forgotten Colonial doctor who put his Jewish values before his life By Michael Feldberg Remembering the first American-born Jew to enroll in medical school http://www.jewishworldreview.com/jewish/history8.php3 ---> l'chaim! Everything's Relative Jordan "Gorf" Gorfinkle's strip that transcends cultures and age groups gets philosophical! http://www.jewishworldreview.com/tpl/tpl040908.php3 *:-.,_,.-:*'``'*:-.,_,.-:*'``'*:-.,_,.-:**:-.,_,.-:*'``'*:-.,_,.-:* [ D A I L Y I N S P I R A T I O N ] NEW SERIES! "Sparks of Spirituality" by Rabbi Dr. Abraham J. Twerski A daily sermon-ette to jolt your soul and grow your humanity Today: How to react to stress http://jewishworldreview.com/twerski/twerski_sparks.php3 [ JWisdom.com --- Uplifting Downloads ] TODAY: Four Rabbis in Bnei Brak In priming our thoughts for Passover, Rabbi Mordechai Becher tackles an obscure phrase from the ancient Haggadah to ferret out fresh significance in the all-night musings of four rabbis in the village of Bnei Brak RUN TIME: 9 minutes http://jewishworldreview.com/jwisdom/becher.php3 <^><^><^><^><^><^><^><^><^> [ W O R T H 1 0 0 0 W O R D S ] * The Wizard of Id http://www.jewishworldreview.com/strips/wiz/wiz.asp * Andy Capp http://www.jewishworldreview.com/strips/a_capp/a_capp.asp * 9 to 5 http://www.jewishworldreview.com/strips/9_to_5/9_to_5.asp * Baloo http://www.jewishworldreview.com/strips/baloo/baloo.asp * Bottom Liners http://www.jewishworldreview.com/strips/bottomliners/bottomliners.asp * Bliss http://www.jewishworldreview.com/strips/bliss/bliss.asp * The Born Loser http://www.jewishworldreview.com/strips/born_loser/born_loser.asp * Bound and Gagged http://jewishworldreview.com/strips/bound_and_gagged/b_and_g.asp * Flo & Friends http://www.jewishworldreview.com/strips/flo/flo.asp * Frank & Ernest http://www.jewishworldreview.com/strips/frank_and_ernest/frank_and_ernest.asp * The Grizzwells http://www.jewishworldreview.com/strips/grizzwells/grizzwells.asp * Herman http://www.jewishworldreview.com/strips/herman/herman.asp * Mallard Filmore http://www.jewishworldreview.com/strips/mallard/2000/mallard1.asp * Moderately Confused http://jewishworldreview.com/strips/moderately_confused/mc.asp * Momma http://www.jewishworldreview.com/strips/momma/momma.asp * One Big Happy http://www.jewishworldreview.com/strips/obh/obh1.asp * Prickly City http://www.jewishworldreview.com/strips/pc/prickly_city.asp * The Other Coast http://www.jewishworldreview.com/strips/toc/toc.asp * Shoe http://www.jewishworldreview.com/strips/shoe/shoe.asp * State of the Union http://www.jewishworldreview.com/strips/sou/sou.asp * Dry Bones http://www.jewishworldreview.com/strips/dry_bones/dry_bones.asp * Robert Arial http://jewishworldreview.com/toons/arial/arial1.asp * Lisa Benson http://jewishworldreview.com/toons/benson/benson.asp * Chip Bok http://www.jewishworldreview.com/toons/bok/bok1.asp * John Deering http://jewishworldreview.com/toons/deering/deering1.asp * Bob Gorrell http://www.jewishworldreview.com/toons/gorrel/gorrell1.asp * David Hitch http://jewishworldreview.com/toons/hitch/hitch.asp * Jerry Holbert http://www.jewishworldreview.com/toons/holbert/holbert1.asp * Steve Kelley http://www.jewishworldreview.com/toons/kelley/skelley1.asp * Jeff Koterba http://jewishworldreview.com/toons/koterba/koterba1.asp * Chan Lowe http://jewishworldreview.com/toons/lowe/lowe.asp * Kevin Siers http://jewishworldreview.com/toons/siers/siers.asp * Wayne Stayskal http://jewishworldreview.com/toons/stayskal/stayskal1.asp * Dana Summers http://jewishworldreview.com/toons/summers/summers.asp * Michael Ramirez http://www.jewishworldreview.com/toons/ramirez/ramirez1.asp * " "¤" "¤" "¤" "¤" "¤" "¤" "¤" "¤" "¤" [ PoliticalMavens.com H I G H L I G H T S ] * Diana West: An American Travesty http://politicalmavens.com/index.php/2008/04/06/an-american-travesty/ * Judith A. Klinghoffer: Dalai Lama cannot be the Tibetan MLK http://politicalmavens.com/index.php/2008/04/04/dalai-lama-cannot-be-the-tibetan-mlk/ * Jerry Bowyer: Do Liberals Want a Fed or Not? http://politicalmavens.com/index.php/2008/04/07/do-liberals-want-a-fed-or-not/ * Peter Brookes: Separation anxiety http://politicalmavens.com/index.php/2008/04/07/separation-anxiety/ * Julia Gorin: Need a Liver? Kill a Serb. http://politicalmavens.com/index.php/2008/03/30/need-a-liver-kill-a-serb/ <^><^><^><^><^><^><^><^><^> [ T O D A Y I N H I S T O R Y ] On this day in … * 1682, French explorer Robert de La Salle claimed the Mississippi River Basin for France * 1833, opening of the first tax-supported public library (Peterborough, NH) * 1865, Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered his army to Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House in Virginia * 1872, Samuel R. Percy patents dried milk * 1912, Titanic leaves Queenstown, Ireland for New York * 1959, NASA announced the selection of America's first seven astronauts: Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, John Glenn, Gus Grissom, Wally Schirra, Alan Shepard and Donald Slayton * 1963, Winston Churchill becomes first honorary US citizen (posthumously) * 1988, practitioners of that "religion of peace" who had seized a Kuwait Airways jetliner on April 5 killed one of their hostages as the plane sat on the ground in Larnaca, Cyprus * 1997, Douglas Engelbart wins the $500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize, a prestigious award for inventors, for inventing the computer mouse * 1998, a federal judge declares that fees collected by Network Solutions, the official registrar of Internet domain names, represented an illegal tax. ALSO: More than 150 Muslims died in a stampede which occurred on the last day of the annual pilgrimage to the holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia * 2003, jubilant Iraqis celebrated the collapse of Saddam Hussein's regime, beheading a toppled statue of their longtime ruler in downtown Baghdad and embracing American troops as liberators * 2005, Britain's Prince Charles married longtime love Camilla Parker Bowles, who took the title Duchess of Cornwall * 2007, President Bush visited the U.S.-Mexico border to tout a guest worker program for immigrants <^><^><^><^><^><^><^><^><^> [ I N S I G H T ] * John Stossel: Our legal system encourages lawyer bullies http://jewishworldreview.com/0408/stossel040908.php3 * Argus Hamilton skewers politics and contemporary "culture" http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0408/hamilton040908.php3 * Steve Young: Down The Stretch, Here Come The Candidates...And The Commercials http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/syoung040908.php3 * Clarence Page: Race talk must be two-way http://jewishworldreview.com/0408/page040908.php3 * Michelle Malkin: Absolut's Left-Wing Liquor http://jewishworldreview.com/michelle/malkin040908.php3 * Paul Greenberg: 'We interrupt this program…' http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/greenberg040908.php3 * Jonah Goldberg: The genocide loophole (THOUGHT PROVOKING!) http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/jonah040908.php3 * E. J. Dionne Jr.: Hillary's friends are now her harshest critics http://jewishworldreview.com/0408/dionne.php3 * Roger Simon: Obama's happy, drama-free appeal http://jewishworldreview.com/0408/simon040908.php3 * Cokie and Steve Roberts: Not this year http://jewishworldreview.com/0408/croberts.php3 * Tony Blankley: The Flickering Light of the News (SMART!) http://jewishworldreview.com/0408/blankley040908.php3 * William McKenzie: To win, McCain must take his party in a bold, daring direction http://jewishworldreview.com/0408/mckenzie.php3 * Dick Morris: Obama's weakness is weakness http://jewishworldreview.com/0408/morris0409008.php3 * Walter Williams: Political loathsomeness http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/williams040908.php3 <^><^><^><^><^><^><^><^><^> [ L I F E S T Y L E S ] * GET A JOB! by Marty Nemko: Charm School for Your Career http://jewishworldreview.com/0408/nemko040908.php3 * Bargains for brave consumers http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0408/bargains_for_brave_consumers.php3 * Dr. Peter H. Gott: Wean slowly off prednisone; Life Line Screening; children's aspirin causing nose bleed http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/gott1.asp * Frugal Living by Sara Noel: Readers' wisdom http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/frugal_living.php3 * Bruce Williams on JWR: In Mom we trust --- or not; more http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/bruce1.asp <^><^><^><^><^><^><^><^> http://www.JewishWorldReview.com/ Want to drop us a note? You may send it to JWR's editor in chief: mailto:blj@jewishworldreview.com EVERY letter is read and valued! ENJOYING THIS NEWSLETTER? WE NEED YOUR HELP AND WE NEED IT NOW! Please help us keep on keeping on. To make a tax-deductible donation, please go to: https://www.kerenyehoshuavyisroel.com/keren/jwr/donate.cfm NOT COMFORTABLE DONATING ELECTRONICALLY? We can arrange for you to send your gift through CONVENTIONAL MAIL. 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