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I welcome my friend and colleague Rabbi Barry Leff, of B’nai Israel in Toledo Ohio, to the rabbinical blogosphere. Reb Barry has converted his wonderful personal website to a blog that can be accessed at www.neshamah.net. I have enjoyed Reb Barry’s thoughtful insights on all matters when we get together for lunch in Ann Arbor,…

Putting Holy Touches on a New Home 3-Mile Walk Brings Torahs to Va. Jewish Congregation’s Nearly Completed Temple By Lisa ReinWashington Post They looked like pioneers as they made their three-mile pilgrimage amid the suburban sprawl of Leesburg yesterday, some pushing baby strollers along the W&OD Trail, through a new subdivision, across a highway overpass….

From the Miami Herald Conservative Jews fleeing to other movements RACHEL ZOLLAssociated Press The branch of American Judaism that occupies the middle ground between those who buck tradition and those who fully embrace it have been confronting the dwindling appeal of their movement in a meeting this week in Houston. Members of the Conservative Rabbinical…

We saw Golda’s Balcony last night. Tovah Feldshuh stars as Golda Meir in this one-woman play. She also does the voices of all the other people including Dayan, Kissinger, her parents, etc. It was phenomenal! Most memorable line is when Kissinger says “First I am an American. Second I am the Secretary of State. And…

From World Jewish Congress site Madonna and Ritchie under fire for Purim dresses Madonna and her husband, the filmmaker Guy Ritchie, have infuriated Catholic leaders by attending a party dressed as a nun and the Pope respectively, at a time when Pope John Paul II is becoming increasingly frail. Madonna and Ritchie were attending a…

I certainly didn’t think that my (almost) 2-year-old son was in any danger when I let him sit on the lap of seven-time world champion boxer Tommy “The Hitman” Hearns last week at the Detroit Pistons basketball game at the Palace of Auburn Hills. But I was certainly shocked and upset to read today that…