Mazel Tov to Bill Davidson, Tom Wilson, Joe Dumars, Coach Larry Brown, and the entire Pistons Basketball team for a most impressive NBA Championship win over the Los Angeles Lakers in five games!
By Jessica RemitzThe Digital Collegian Penn State President Graham Spanier said yesterday that Penn State student Josh Stulman could display his Portraits of Terror art exhibit as early as this semester. “That exhibit is going to go up,” he said at the University Faculty Senate meeting. “The offer has been extended and may be displayed…
I will be lecturing this afternoon to health care professionals at the University of Michigan Hospital on the efficacy of prayer for those in need of healing. This is an especially relevant topic following the Chicago Tribune’s March 31st article explaining that researchers from Harvard Medical School and five other U.S. medical centers found “that…
I have long been an opponent of gambling. A decade ago I wrote a letter to the Michigan Daily newspaper about the consequences gambling addicts face and why it’s praiseworthy to try to deter young people from gambling. Here are some further thoughts about gambling in Jewish law and its moral prohibitions. A fastidious hermeneutic…
Professor Alan Dershowitz, Harvard’s Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law, visited University of Michigan Hillel Foundation on Thursday before addressing the Jewish Law Students Association at the Michigan Union on the topic of Israel advocacy on campus. Here are some photos of Mr. Dershowitz in my office and at the Michigan Union (with Law School dean…
I just learned about this write up in the USA Today about the Torah From Terror website. (c) Rabbi Jason Miller | http://blog.rabbijason.com | Twitter: @RabbiJason | facebook.com/rabbijasonmiller
From the HoustonChronicle.comApril 23, 2005 Use of B.C. and A.D. faces changing times: Some teachers and historians are using alternatives to Christian-based designations By MICHAEL GORMLEYAssociated Press ALBANY, N.Y. – In a world encouraged to embrace differences, B.C. and A.D. are increasingly finding themselves on the wrong end of the religious sensitivity meter. Educators and…