I was just forced to watch this animated cartoon called “Tekiyah” fifteen times by my 20-month-old son who thaught it was a riot. It is the brainchild of Ben Baruch, a direct descendent of the Vilna Gaon. ShaBot 6000 is the continuing cartoon saga of a pious Jew who purchases a robot to work as…
Oy Vey! Traffic Sign Goes up in Brooklyn From Yahoo! News: “Leaving Brooklyn? ‘Oy vey!’” That’s what motorists now see as they cross the Williamburg Bridge into Manhattan. The huge sign, affixed to a cross beam of the bridge high above the bustling traffic, is a sweet victory for Marty Markowitz, president of the borough,…
From the Detroit Jewish NewsBy Shelli Liebman Dorfman After much discussion and a bit of dissension, there will be no Reflection Room in the University of Michigan Hillel building in Ann Arbor. After learning that the university was seeking a place for students of all religious denominations to use for prayer and meditation, Hillel staff…
From the Emmy-award winning “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart” comes this great piece of dialogue: Stephen Colbert: “I’m Steven Colbert and I wish you Jon a most joyous Yom Kippur.” Jon Stewart: “Um Steven, Yom Kippur is the Jewish Day of Atonement.” Stephen Colbert: “But isn’t that your biggest holiday?” Jon Stewart: “It is…
From Haaretz After initial attempts to solve the microphone problem, including activation of the back-up system, failed, Likud Director General Arik Barami charged that Sharon’s speech had been sabotaged, saying that the prime minister’s opponents had poured a bucket of water on the microphone’s electrical connections. Police later responded that an informal examination had produced…
From the creator of the “Who Let the Jews Out” animation to advertise Sam Apple’s book Shlepping Through the Alps comes this new animation to promote Taglit/birthright israel: SHOFAR IDOL (c) Rabbi Jason Miller | http://blog.rabbijason.com | Twitter: @RabbiJason | facebook.com/rabbijasonmiller
Just as water leaves a high place and flows to a low one, so the Torah leaves one whose spirit is proud and cleaves to one whose spirit is lowly. (Shir Hashirim Rabbah) (c) Rabbi Jason Miller | http://blog.rabbijason.com | Twitter: @RabbiJason | facebook.com/rabbijasonmiller
From the Michigan DailyHillel opens new learning center By Laura Frank, Daily Staff ReporterSeptember 21, 2005 The new Jewish Learning Center at Hillel, which officially opened on Monday, is only the size of an average University classroom, but organizers hope the spirit of learning that grows from this one room will be much larger. The…
President Bush’s statement on the passing of Nazi Hunter Simon Wiesenthal: Laura and I are saddened by the death of Simon Wiesenthal, a tireless and passionate advocate who devoted his life to tracking down Nazi killers and promoting freedom. Simon Wiesenthal lost 89 relatives in the Holocaust, yet he survived the death camps himself. He…
Oy Vey!!! From the AP:JERUSALEM — Ovadia Yosef, the former Sephardic chief rabbi of Israel, is being criticized for a televised sermon that called Hurricane Katrina a punishment from God for President Bush’s role in forcing Israelis to leave the Gaza Strip. “It was God’s retribution,” Yosef said. “He (Bush) perpetrated the expulsion. Now everyone…