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iPads in Jewish Day Schools
ByRabbi Jason Miller January 27, 2012

A version of this appeared on the JTA.org website Bill Gates paid a visit to Steve Jobs toward to the end of the Apple visionary’s life. The two technology giants talked about the future of education. According to Walter Isaacson’s biography of Jobs, both men agreed that computers had made surprisingly little impact on schools….

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Matisyahu, Moishe House and Kickball: Detroit’s Coming Back
ByRabbi Jason Miller August 21, 2011

The last time I was at Belle Isle, the almost 1,000-acre island park in the Detroit River (the largest in the United States), was in the mid-1980s. I don’t remember if I was there to go to the aquarium (which closed in 2005) or the zoo, but I know I haven’t been there since. Today,…

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Do It For Detroit
ByRabbi Jason Miller July 24, 2011

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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