From the Detroit Jewish News COVER STORY: A New BeginningCongregation revitalizes Wayne County Synagogue Shelli Liebman DorfmanStaff WriterRabbi Jason Miller often heard the same skeptical question when he mentioned Congregation Beit Kodesh. “They’d come back with, ‘Really? There’s a shul in Livonia?’” said Rabbi Miller, who admits driving past and forgetting it was there, too….
Here’s an interesting article about religious belief and politics from the Columbus Dispatch and Kudos to Senator Voinovich for taking a stand against slot machine gambling in the State of Ohio. He is correct in stating that it would lead towards horrible consequences for those who became addicted. I’m happy that he is drawing on…
I must be getting old. I just read that three of my former teachers are retiring from teaching at Hillel Day School. One of these teachers is Noami Reiter, who didn’t teach me at Hillel Day School but was my preschool teacher at Adat Shalom Synagogue Nursery School. I also just read an article saying…
What’s worse? Finding over 700 pounds of pot at a Kosher Slaughterhouse or finding out that the Kosher Slaughterhouse isn’t so Kosher after all? From the Forward: Pot Bust, Meat Scam Hit Kosher Companies By Nathaniel Popper The evening of August 30 was a dark one for the kosher food industry. First, a group of…
People say that Joe Lieberman didn’t win the Connecticut primary because of his support of the Iraq War and his George W. Bush kiss, but maybe it was because Connecticut voters didn’t want to “legislate sin” by electing a non-Christian to the senate. I think Katherine Harris should use the slogan “If you’re not with…
From the NY TimesA Power Hitter. And a Source of Jewish Pride. By ANDY NEWMAN and MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT Not that there’s any pressure on Shawn Green to succeed in New York, but when Mr. Green — power-hitting right fielder, two-time All-Star, Jew — took the field in a Mets uniform for the first time…
Ari Fleischer, former White House Press Secretary to President George W. Bush and a member of the RJC Board of Directors, wrote in protest to former President Jimmy Carter, who accused Israel of launching an “unjustified attack on Lebanon.” In an interview in Der Spiegel, Carter said Israel lacked “any legal or moral justification for…
Rabbi David Weiss Halivni left the faculty of Jewish Theological Seminary in 1983 over the decision to ordain women as rabbis in the Conservative Movement. For serveral years, he has served as the rabbi of a small congregation on Manhattan’s Upper West Side that was named after the former chancellor of JTS, Louis Finkelstein, who…
Here is a very well done video by Aish.com detailing the recent Photoshopped images and other rediculous altered photos from the media (especially Reuters) concerning the war against Hizbullah. Reuters has actually withdrawn one photograph of a Beirut after Air Force attack after US blogs pointed out blatant evidence of manipulation. Reuters’ head of PR…
Kol Hakavod to my colleague Rabbi David Wolpe of Temple Sinai in LA for his 2-day solidarity mission to Israel in which he brought with him a significant amount of donated funds for Friends of the IDF. From the Jerusalem Post (by Adina Greene) Emotions ran high at Jerusalem’s David Citadel Hotel on Wednesday night…