12 people turn into 13 people! Count the people, wait until they shift, and then count them again. Hmmm… I wonder if this trick would work when we only have 9 for a minyan? Send this to someone else (c) Rabbi Jason Miller | http://blog.rabbijason.com | Twitter: @RabbiJason | facebook.com/rabbijasonmiller
Nothing like some good old fashioned anti-Semitism to start the day! From Today’s Michigan Daily newspaper: Ethnic remarks stir MSA elections By Donn M. Fresard, Daily News EditorMarch 17, 2005 Students reacted with varying degrees of concern after the campaign manager of a party running in next week’s Michigan Student Assembly elections questioned whether it…
By Jeremy Davidson, Daily Staff ReporterMarch 16, 2005 Hundreds of anxious students and local community members filled an emotionally charged Michigan Union Ballroom last night, when the Michigan Student Assembly soundly defeated a proposal advocating the creation of a committee to examine University investments in companies that do business with Israel. The overwhelming margin against…
Divestment resolution likely to pass By Donn M. Fresard and Justin Miller, Daily Staff ReportersMarch 15, 2005 A resolution supporting divestment from Israel appears to havea reasonable chance of passing in tonight’s Michigan Student Assembly meeting, several top MSA officials said yesterday. The resolution, which attacks the Israeli military’s practices toward the Palestinians as “reprehensible”…
From JTA.org Large Conservative synagogue namesfemale rabbi in ‘groundbreaking’ move By Chanan Tigay NEW YORK, March 10 (JTA) — Twenty years after the Conservative movement began ordaining women as rabbis, a large New Jersey congregation has chosen a woman to fill its top rabbinic post, a development movement leaders are hailing as “groundbreaking.”The board of…
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…
Written from the Rabbinical Assembly convention in Houston Texas Below is an article from JTA. I was literally exhausted after listening to Rabbi Sharon Brous speak in a session yesterday here at the convention about her new endeavor called Ikar. She is a talented, dynamic and super-energetic rabbi who is transforming this new spiritual community…
When I helped coach my little brother Jake’s little league baseball team many many years ago, I knew that Dani Wohl was a good athlete, but I just didn’t realize how good! He’s much older now and has done what very few Jewish kids from West Bloomfield, Michigan get to do in college — start…
Max Fisher, ‘dean’ of Jewish life,dies at 96 as community mourns By Rachel Pomerance NEW YORK, March 8 (JTA) — A defining moment in the life of Max Fisher, the son of immigrants who became a Jewish icon, came in a meeting with former President Eisenhower in 1965. As head of the United Jewish Appeal…
From the Detroit Free Press Dearborn resident faces prison term BY DAVID ASHENFELTERMarch 2, 2005 A 33-year-old Dearborn man pleaded guilty Tuesday to conspiring to provide material support to a terrorist group. The U.S. Attorney’s Office said Mahmoud Youssef Kourani hosted meetings in his home in the 6000 block of Argyle in late 2002 where…