Here’s the purim spoof I created in honor of the new Hebrew month of Adar. Purim is coming up and in that spirit I parodied a “Breaking News Alert” from the Jewish Telegrapic Agency reporting that Lawrence Summers, the former president of Harvard University, has accepted the chancellor position at the Jewish Theological Seminary. Apparently,…
Here’s my recent post to the Shma website about Conservative Judiasm on the college campus. My view is strongly based on what I have seen at the University of Michigan campus. I know that at other schools the culture is different but I think I am addressing a common problem that the Conservative Movement faces….
Here’s my published letter to the editor of the Michigan Daily that appeared in today’s paper. As a strong opponent of gambling because of the consequences faced by many gambling addicts, I decided to submit a letter to the University of Michigan student paper. When I noticed an article (also front page above the fold)…
From the Associated Press Right-wing British historian David Irving was convicted in Austria on Monday of denying the Holocaust – a crime in this country once run by the Nazis – and sentenced to three years in prison. Irving, who had pleaded guilty and insisted during his one-day trial that he had had a change…
Here’s a great trivia question: Who was the #2 pick in the NBA draft right after the Cleveland Cavaliers got superstar LeBron James?Yep, it was Darko Milicic. There is a vast sea of statistical difference between these two players. Darko has averaged less than two points a game during his disappointing NBA career while LeBron,…
“Remember when the most embarrassing thing to happen to a vice-president was misspelling the word potato?” -Jimmy Kimmel (c) Rabbi Jason Miller | http://blog.rabbijason.com | Twitter: @RabbiJason | facebook.com/rabbijasonmiller
If you have too much time on your hands, you should try this website. By the way, I couldn’t last for more than 11 seconds. How well can you do? (c) Rabbi Jason Miller | http://blog.rabbijason.com | Twitter: @RabbiJason | facebook.com/rabbijasonmiller
A Danish paper publishes a cartoon that mocks Muslims. An Iranian paper responds with a Holocaust cartoons contest. Now a group of Israelis announce their own anti-Semitic cartoons contest! Amitai Sandy (29), graphic artist and publisher of Dimona Comix Publishing, from Tel-Aviv, Israel, has followed the unfolding of the “Muhammad cartoon-gate” events in amazement, until…
I’m actually in Texas right now for a Synaplex meeting and thus far I am happy to report that I have not been directly hit by VP Dick Cheney. Unfortunately Harry Whittington, a 78-year-old lawyer, was not as lucky. Cheney actually shot his fellow hunter in the face and chest with shotgun pellets. See the…
Mazel tov to Ian and Ruby Robinson and the rest of the Shmooze Club on becoming an official U-M Hillel group tonight. Shmooze now has an official Shmooze blog. (c) Rabbi Jason Miller | http://blog.rabbijason.com | Twitter: @RabbiJason | facebook.com/rabbijasonmiller