Originally published in the Observer & Eccentric Newspapers Congregation Beit Kodesh growing for the futureBY LINDA ANN CHOMIN Phyllis Lewkowicz couldn’t be happier about welcoming new members to the family at Congregation Beit Kodesh in Livonia. Several months ago, she and members of the temple had formed a Save Our Synagogue committee. When Lewkowicz first…
University of Michigan Hillel co-sponsored the Ludacris concert tonight. I think I am now deaf in both ears, but it was a fun event. I took my cousin Jeff Gudes and we watched from the 5th row with Jeff’s sister Lindsey. Today was my grandfather David Gudes’s 11th yahrzeit and I’m sure he enjoyed seeing…
From the Michigan DailyBy Whitney Dibo The speaker’s voice resonates with a natural blend of familiarity and animosity typical of this casual observation. Her friends peer down State Street at the girl’s sorority sweat pants, UGG boots and straight brown hair. They all nod in agreement. “There are so many JAPs on this campus,” one…
From the American Joint Distribution Committee‘s website Young Adults in Ukraine Inspire College Students from Michigan From August 22-31, 2005, 15 students from University of Michigan Hillel traveled to Kiev, Kharkov, Sumy, and Konotop, Ukraine, where they joined their peers from Kharkov Hillel and the Jewish Youth Association to paint apartments of elderly Jews in…
From the New York Times In a Town of ‘Friends,’ an Amen CornerBy JOHN FREEMAN GILL WHEN David Light was a student at Columbia University in the early 1990’s, dating a future rabbi who would later become his wife, the couple watched in fascination as the biggest party animal they knew – a beer-guzzling, skirt-chasing…
From the Daily Show with Jon Stewart“Modonna is Jewish in the same way that she’s British!” (c) Rabbi Jason Miller | http://blog.rabbijason.com | Twitter: @RabbiJason | facebook.com/rabbijasonmiller
By Jay MichaelsonFrom the Jerusalem PostAsk anyone in the Jewish institutional community, and they will reply that demographics is not their primary concern; it’s their only concern. With study after study portending the imminent demise of the Jewish people, philanthropists and the institutions they support are scrambling to somehow avert extinction. Ironically, though, many efforts…
Rules of the Sukkah (with numbered footnotes) © Rabbi Arthur E. Gould, Sukkot 1999 – 2001. Used by permission. You can build it very small (1)You can build it very tall (2)You can build it very large (3)You can build it on a bargeYou can build it on a ship (4)Or on a roof but…
It is only the second Rosh Hashanah for Ikar, a new congregation in Los Angeles, and some 600 people will be attending its services at the Westside Jewish Community Center. Six-hundred people. Not bad for this synagogue-less community that was started in April 2004 by Rabbi Sharon Brous, a 2001 graduate of the Jewish Theological…
University of Michigan students pick potatoes for the winter at the collective Jewish farm in Konotop. By Allison Goldstein While most students were bringing their summers to a close, 15 University of Michigan Hillel students were just beginning our adventure. On August 22, along with our rabbi and program director, we departed on a 10-day…