Happy hour goes righteous as New Jersey’s religious institutions hit the taverns to attract young believers. By Sharon Waters New Jersey Monthly Magazine (Sept. 2004) It’s Sunday night at Just Jake’s bar and restaurant in Montclair. The room is filled with 40 young adults drinking beer and munching appetizers. Amid the conversation and clinking of…
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….
Torah from Terror By Mark MietkiewiczIn 2001, September 11 occurred less than one week before Rosh Hashanah (as it does again this year.) Rabbis dispensed with the Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur sermons they had prepared and wrote new ones to help their congregations grapple with the horrors they had just witnessed. Theirs were words…
Operation Bubbe is an effort to recruit Jews unhappy with the leadership in Washington who live in northeastern “safe states” to travel to Florida for the five day weekend before Election Day as Get Out The Vote (GOTV) volunteers to make sure Jewish retirees get to the polls. Once in Florida, volunteers will participate in…
A dime has 118 ridges around the edge. A cat has 32 muscles in each ear. A crocodile cannot ! stick out its tongue. A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours. A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds. A “jiffy” is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second….
DETROIT JEWISH NEWS DON COHEN Special to the Jewish News An international effort targeting Jews and Judaism is coming to metro Detroit and Ann Arbor Sept. 3-24. And no matter how much you try to avoid them, the “Jews for Jesus” will be working hard to make sure you can’t. “The goal is to make…
From Jeremy Fogel’s “Just-Stam” blog: As seen on Dvorak Uncensored Anyone who has been on the London Undergound, affectionately called the “tube,” knows that this list of announcements currently going around the ‘net as “fact” may be real. A list of actual announcements that London Tube train drivers have made totheir passengers… 1) “Ladies and…
Britney Spears’ new Kabbalah-inspired Hebrew tattoo actually has the letters reversed, making it meaningless. It’s proof once again of how hard it is to find a tattoo artist who graduated from a decent Hebrew School. (c) Rabbi Jason Miller | http://blog.rabbijason.com | Twitter: @RabbiJason | facebook.com/rabbijasonmiller
“You are entitled to your own opinion, but not to your own facts” -Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan (1927 – 2003) (c) Rabbi Jason Miller | http://blog.rabbijason.com | Twitter: @RabbiJason | facebook.com/rabbijasonmiller
Bill Clinton will be on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart on Monday night at 11:00 PM EST. Bill Clinton has been all over television promoting his new book. But one show he won’t be visiting is “Saturday Night Live.” The former president has turned down an invitation to be guest host of the NBC…