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Advertising | Humor | Marketing | Rabbis | Religion
Rabbi As Pitchman?
Advertising is all around us. It’s become impossible to find an event or location that doesn’t have corporate sponsorship attached to it. Product placement has become the norm in movies and TV shows. And it seems like everyone has an endorsement deal these days. On Comedy Central’s “The Colbert Report,” host Stephen Colbert begged Apple…
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Camp | D'var Torah | Jewish Youth | Teens | Torah
Masei – Jewish Summer Camp
This Shabbat, we read the final Torah portion from the book of Numbers, Parashat Masei. This section of the Torah begins with an extensive list of the places our ancestors traveled through on their way to the Promised Land. It details their stops and encampments as they walked through the desert wilderness eager to arrive…
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Business | Detroit | Jewish | Jewish Detroit | Jewish Future | Michigan
Do It For Detroit
I was born 35 years ago today in Sinai Hospital on West Outer Drive in Downtown Detroit. Detroit was born 310 years ago today. Detroit hasn’t aged well in my lifetime. Sinai Hospital, which opened in 1953 to give Jewish doctors a place to practice, was the the central medical institution for the Jewish community….
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Celebrities | Death | Jewish | Music | Obituary
Jewish Singer Amy Winehouse Found Dead
Was Amy Winehouse Jewish? Yes, she was. The singer, who was found dead today in her London home, was born in Southgate, London to Janis, a pharmacist, and Mitch, a cab driver. A 2010 article in Moment Magazine titled “Surprise, They’re Jewish,” describes Winehouse as “The 27-year old British, bee-hived vocalist and tabloid headliner is…
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The Magic Returns to Motown
Dan Gilbert, Brian Hermelin and Josh Linkner are three Jewish entrepreneurs in Metro Detroit who have teamed up to invest some venture capital into companies in an effort to rebuild the City of Detroit. Gilbert is the founder and chairman of Quicken Loans, which is now headquartered in Downtown Detroit where he has been buying…
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American Jews | Conservative Judaism | Food | Jewish | Jewish Newspapers | Orthodox Judaism | Politics
A Look at the Recent Jewish Headlines
This has been anything but a quiet summer for Jewish news. The summer is usually a time when the Jewish world slows down, but not this year. It’s only mid-July and already it seems like there have been a dozen big news stories this summer. Here’s the list I compiled of news items either about the Jewish…
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Michele Bachman’s Choot-spa Moment
While I am certainly no Yiddish maven, I know enough words and phrases to know that when someone mispronounces a Yiddish word it hurts my ears. For my maternal grandmother, who is fluent in Yiddish, when someone mangles the language of our eastern-European ancestors it really hurts her ears. So, the other day when I…
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Fatherhood | JTS | Motherhood | Parenting | Rabbis
Motherhood and the Rabbinate: A Male Rabbi Responds
When we hear the words of the Torah being read this Shabbat morning, we’ll learn about a group of women who had a mutual goal and succeeded. A man named Tzelafchad died without having any sons and the laws of inheritance in the Torah only recognized male heirs, making no provision for a deceased father’s…
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Celebrities | Hebrew | Hollywood | Jewish | Shabbat
Jennifer Aniston Says Shabbat Shalom
In what is certainly a first, a big name celebrity says “Shabbat Shalom” in a movie. “Horrible Bosses” starring Jason Bateman, Jason Sudeikis, Kevin Spacey, Jamie Foxx, Colin Farrell, and Donald Sutherland has a scene in which Jennifer Aniston exclaims, “Shabbat Shalom!” Here’s a clip: (c) Rabbi Jason Miller | http://blog.rabbijason.com | Twitter: @RabbiJason | facebook.com/rabbijasonmiller