Jewish World Review for Thursday Dec 1 2005

[ D A I L Y I N S P I R A T I O N ]

NEW SERIES!

"Smiling Each Day". Internationally renowned author and lecturer
Rabbi Abraham J. Twerski, M.D. offers a charming collection of
humorous views on life. His thoughts, stories, and anecdotes will
make you smile with others as you smile about yourself

http://jewishworldreview.com/twerski/smiling_each_day.php3


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[ J E W I S H L I V I N G ]

---> controversy!
Dumb Jews?
By Julia Gorin

The Myth of Jewish Intelligence

http://jewishworldreview.com/julia/gorin120105.php3


---> l'chaim!
Everything's Relative

Jordan "Gorf" Gorfinkel's Jewish Gen-X strip that crosses ages and
cultures

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/tpl/tpl120105.php3


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

On this day in .

* 1824, the presidential election was turned over to the U.S. House
of Representatives when a deadlock developed between John Quincy
Adams, Andrew Jackson, William H. Crawford and Henry Clay. (Adams
ended up the winner.)

* 1904, the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis closed after
seven months and some 20 million visitors

* 1913, the first drive-in automobile service station opened, in
Pittsburgh

* 1934, Sergei M. Kirov, a collaborator of Josef Stalin, was
assassinated in Leningrad, resulting in a massive purge

* 1943, President Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston
Churchill and Soviet leader Josef Stalin concluded their Tehran
conference

* 1955, Rosa Parks, a black seamstress, refused to give up her seat
to a white man on a Montgomery, Ala., city bus. Mrs. Parks was
arrested, sparking a year-long boycott of the buses by black

* 1965, an airlift of refugees from Cuba to the United States began
in which thousands of Cubans were allowed to leave their homeland

* 1969, the U.S. government held its first draft lottery since World
War II

* 2000, the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments on a narrow question
of Florida election law while the Florida Supreme Court and a
circuit judge denied Al Gore's petitions for immediate recounts.
Florida's high court also refused to order a new election in Palm
Beach County, where a "butterfly ballot" drew protests from
Democratic voters. ALSO: Vicente Fox was sworn in as president of
Mexico, ending 71 years of ruling-party domination

* 2004, Tom Brokaw signed off for the last time as principal anchor
of the "NBC Nightly News"; he was succeeded by Brian Williams


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


* Frank & Ernest (NEW FEATURE, PLEASE LET US KNOW YOUR OPINION)
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/strips/frank_and_ernest/frank_and_ernest.asp



* Momma http://www.jewishworldreview.com/strips/momma/momma.asp

* Bliss http://www.jewishworldreview.com/strips/bliss/bliss.asp

* The Born Loser
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/strips/born_loser/born_loser.asp

* The Sunshine Club
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/strips/sunshine_club/sunshine_club.asp

* 9 to 5 http://www.jewishworldreview.com/strips/9_to_5/9_to_5.asp

* Bound and Gagged
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/strips/bound_and_gagged/bound_and_gagged.asp

* The Other Coast
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/strips/toc/toc.asp

* State of the Union
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/strips/sou/sou.asp

* One Big Happy http://www.jewishworldreview.com/strips/obh/obh1.asp

* Mallard Fillmore
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/strips/mallard/2000/mallard1.asp

* Moderately Confused
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/strips/moderately_confused/moderately_confused.asp



* Jerry Holbert
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/toons/holbert/holbert1.asp

* Ed Gamble
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/toons/gamble/gamble1.asp

* Joe Heller
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/toons/heller/heller1.asp

* Wayne Stayskal
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/toons/stayskal/stayskal1.asp

* Jeff Koterba
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/toons/koterba/koterba1.asp

* Gary Brookins
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/toons/brookins/brookins1.asp

* Chuck Asay http://www.jewishworldreview.com/toons/asay/asay1.asp

* Scott Stantis
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/toons/stantis/stantis1.asp



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[ L I F E S T Y L E S ]


* Glad You Asked by Jeff Elder: Greatest sports records, how they
get caffeine out of decaf coffee, and a quiz on gas prices
http://jewishworldreview.com/1205/glad_u_asked111405.php3

* More families finding tutors in different time zones to help
students here
http://jewishworldreview.com/1205/offshoring_tutors.php3

* Everyday Cheapskate: The devil is in the small print
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/cheapskate1.asp

* Dr. Peter H. Gott: Many disorders connected to protein
abnormalities; keloids after bunionectomy
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/gott1.asp



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[ I N S I G H T ]


* Victor Davis Hanson: The truth about torture
http://jewishworldreview.com/1205/hanson120105.php3

* Argus Hamilton's political zingers!
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/1105/hamilton113005.php3

* Dan Abrams: Why no pre-nup for Nick and Jessica?
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/1205/abrams120105.php3

* Clarence Page: Risky times for hard news and view
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/1205/page120105.php3

* Tucker Carlson: Don't patronize our troops
http://jewishworldreview.com/1205/carlson120105.php3

* Debra J. Saunders: Tookie's tales (JUST THE FACTS, MA'AM!)
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/1205/saunders120105.php3

* Max Boot: White flag Dems
http://jewishworldreview.com/1205/boot120105.php3

* Suzanne Fields: Assimilation, American style
http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/fields120105.asp

* Michael Ledeen: Preemptive surrender (THOUGHT PROVOKING!)
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/michael/ledeen120105.php3

* Jonathan Gurwitz: Pride propels Iraq toward an independent future
http://jewishworldreview.com/jonathan/gurwitz120105.php3

* Dick Morris: Bill's war, & W's
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/1205/morris120105.php3

* Bob Tyrrell: Our immigration imbroglio
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/tyrrell120105.php3

* MUGGER: Katrina's Pocketbook Politics: She's a Capitalist, She
Don't Look Back
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/mugger120105.asp

* Larry Elder: Kosovo: Clinton 'lied, people died'?
http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/elder120105.asp

* Ann Coulter: We like you! We really, really like you!
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/coulter120105.asp

* George Will: The abortion argument we missed
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/will120105.asp

* Cal Thomas: Out of many, many?
http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/thomas120105.asp



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