Great article from November’s Wired Magazine that Jeremy Fogel just sent my way. We actually have a General Electric stove with the Shabbat setting. The first time I saw such a thing was at Rabbi Danny & Lynn Nevins’s home a number of years ago on Shabbat. Danny and I both delighted in the fact…
MICHIGAN DAILY News By Karl Stampfl, Daily Staff Reporter Tobacco companies and apartheid South Africa are two institutions from which many universities, including the University of Michigan, voted to withdraw investments. Members of the University of Wisconsin at Platteville’s Faculty Senate hope to add the state of Israel to that list. On Jan. 25, the…
Last Wednesday I had a very intriguing discussion over lunch with Mr. Bill Davidson, owner of Guardian Industries, and sports franchises the Detroit Pistons (NBA), Tampa Bay Lightning (NHL), and Detroit Shock (WNBA). Each of these sports teams are the reigning champions of their respective league. I was invited to lunch with Mr. D. along…
To paraphrase an old joke: “20% of Chassidic men sing in the shower, the other 80% daven. Do you know which prayer they daven??” JERUSALEM (AFP) – A former Jewish grand rabbi, Mordechai Eliahu, has laid down the law on amateur operatics under the shower: you can hum but you can’t sing. “You will not…
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From The Forward Ali G’s Jokes Aside, Report Lauds Kazakhstan By Rick Harrison When Jewish organizations lobbied for a law requiring the U.S. Department of State to issue an annual report on antisemitism around the globe, they probably weren’t looking to do a favor for Kazakhstan. The Central Asian country is a frequent target of…
From the Jerusalem Post On Tuesday, during her opening remarks at the Senate confirmation hearing, Secretary of State nominee Condoleezza Rice said, “The world should apply what Natan Sharansky calls the ‘town square test’: if a person cannot walk into the middle of the town square and express his or her views without fear of…
This is great news and how often do we hear about great news in the Jewish genetic disorder sphere? From Haaretz Daily English Edition Tay-Sachs, the `Jewish disease,’ almost eradicated By Tamara Traubman, Haaretz Correspondent The genetic mutation disease Tay-Sachs, a fatal inherited disease of the central nervous system that mostly affects Ashkenazi Jews, has…
I keep getting e-mail updates from my students who are studying abroad at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Inevitably, each of the e-mail updates ends with a story about how the student has run into Natalie Portman who is also taking classes at the Mt. Scopus campus. Here is an update on what she’s doing in…
From the NY Times A rabbi who has officiated at the marriage of gay and lesbian couples has been threatened with expulsion from the Conservative movement’s rabbinical association, though movement officials say it is not her activism that is at issue but her repeated defiance of the movement’s rules. Ayelet S. Cohen, the junior rabbi…