Funny selections from Jewsweek’s Jewriffic Awards. Best reference to child molestation: “Rabbi Feldman, stop touching me!” — Adam Sandler on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno explaining what he was thinking when the director of his new movie, Spanglish, told him to channel a time from his childhood that would make him cry on cue….
2004—A Year For Witches By George F. Will Newsweek In 2004 an IBM supercomputer set a world record with 36.01 trillion calculations per second. The U.S. electorate may have made its calculation the instant John Kerry, who is not a supercomputer, explained why Toy’s restaurant in Canonsburg, Pa., “is my kind of place”: “You don’t…
By David Brinn December 12, 2004 A revolutionary Israeli treatment for leukemia using a stem cell-derived product has achieved remarkable Phase I and II trial results. Ten American patients with late-stage leukemia underwent the StemEx leukemia treatment developed by start-up Gamida-Cell and 50% confounded expectations by living past the first 100 days. It appears to…
The lighting of the White House menorah and an a capella concert by Kol Zimra at the White House. Click here for the video. (c) Rabbi Jason Miller | http://blog.rabbijason.com | Twitter: @RabbiJason | facebook.com/rabbijasonmiller
DAVID CRUMM: Spiritual quest starts in metro Detroit BY DAVID CRUMM FREE PRESS COLUMNIST December 10, 2004 For years, I’ve heard Jewish parents talk about the Christmas envy their kids can feel at this time of year, but I’d never heard of Hanukkah envy until recently. My son Benjamin, 15, and I were untangling strands…
Kolel Moshe Lifelong Learning Institute: Meets at Congregation B’nai Moshe, 6800 Drake, West Bloomfield. Nancy Kaplan: 248-737-1931. “The Joseph Story: Setting the Stage for Development of the Jewish People,” 11 a.m. Dec. 12. Brunch and Learn program with Rabbi Jason A. Miller of the Hillel Foundation at the University of Michigan. Cosponsored with Congregation Chaye…
Happy Chanukkah to all our friends and family. Rabbi Jason Miller & Family wishes you a Chag Chanukkah Sameach (c) Rabbi Jason Miller | http://blog.rabbijason.com | Twitter: @RabbiJason | facebook.com/rabbijasonmiller
This past week Elissa and I attended a wonderful speech by Starbucks’ Founder and Chairman Howard Schultz. He was the featured speaker at the Main Event — Jewish Federation of Washtenaw County’s (Ann Arbor) annual fundraiser. Schultz spoke of his beginnings, growing up poor in the Brooklyn projects with a blue-collar father who was unemployed…
In case you haven’t seen this one yet… Click here. (c) Rabbi Jason Miller | http://blog.rabbijason.com | Twitter: @RabbiJason | facebook.com/rabbijasonmiller
Our parsha this week tells of the transformation of an individual, our forefather Jacob. This personal transformation also lays the foundation for the creation of a people, Israel. The Torah teaches that Jacob was left alone in the dark when an angel wrestled with him until the break of dawn. When Jacob’s adversary saw that…