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…
Purim begins this Saturday night and once again the Jewish people will tell the story of our salvation. We will listen to the words of Megillat Esther, the story of how our ancestors were miraculously saved from their tragic death.Indeed that story is one that celebrates life. The Jewish people were saved from death in…
Shalom TV, a new digital cable television network celebrating Jewish culture, has signed a subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) carriage agreement with Comcast, the country’s leading provider of cable, entertainment, and communications products and services. Comcast will make Shalom TV available on its southeastern Pennsylvania and northern Delaware cable systems on August 30. “We are thrilled to…
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…
Think TV is a wasteland? Here are two reality shows that are hip and healing By Rabbi Marc GellmanFrom Newsweek Feb. 16 – After seeing a television picture for the first time some 60 years ago, the writer E.B. White said, “This will either be a grave disturbance or a saving radiant light.” In retrospect,…
The President yesterday proclaimed that May 2006 will be Jewish American Heritage Month. I just wonder if he could have left out the part where he mentions that 2006 is the “Year of Our Lord” (see bottom of text below). Who writes this stuff? BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION…