Torah from Terror: Sermons from September 11, 2001 By MARK MIETKIEWICZ Cleveland Jewish News The 9/11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center have inspired of High Holiday sermons, now preserved on www.torahfromterror.com. In 2001, September 11 occurred less than one week before Rosh Hashana (as it does again this year.) Rabbis dispensed with the…
University of Michigan Daily By Victoria Edwards September 23, 2004 Clad in T-shirts proclaiming “Jews for Jesus,” members of the seemingly paradoxical organization have made themselves a presence on the Diag — prompting criticism from mainstream Jewish groups. The group, from San Francisco, says it is nearing the end of a three-week evangelical outreach on…
Picketers have been harassing Shabbat morning services at Ann Arbor’s Beth Israel Congregation every week since last Rosh Hashanah. They carry vile signs such as “Zionism Begets Nazism.” While they are not physically threatening, it is a terrible precedent to have picketers interfering with Jewish religious services (the first known instance since Nazi Germany) or…
Israeli mezuzot were placed on the four doors of the gymnasium. Rabbi Jason Miller, assistant director University of Michigan Hillel, made the first basket on the new basketball court. [more…] (c) Rabbi Jason Miller | http://blog.rabbijason.com | Twitter: @RabbiJason | facebook.com/rabbijasonmiller
Our Family message for 5765 A cute animation for the New Year (c) Rabbi Jason Miller | http://blog.rabbijason.com | Twitter: @RabbiJason | facebook.com/rabbijasonmiller
Here is the [Univ. of Michigan] Michigan Daily’s Rosh Hashanah article (please note corrections at bottom of page) By Justin Miller and Leah Guttman, Daily Staff Reporters September 16, 2004 Rosh Hashanah, which begins a 10 day period of repentance known as the Days of Awe and the Jewish New Year, started at sundown yesterday…
Happy hour goes righteous as New Jersey’s religious institutions hit the taverns to attract young believers. By Sharon Waters New Jersey Monthly Magazine (Sept. 2004) It’s Sunday night at Just Jake’s bar and restaurant in Montclair. The room is filled with 40 young adults drinking beer and munching appetizers. Amid the conversation and clinking of…
Putting Holy Touches on a New Home 3-Mile Walk Brings Torahs to Va. Jewish Congregation’s Nearly Completed Temple By Lisa ReinWashington Post They looked like pioneers as they made their three-mile pilgrimage amid the suburban sprawl of Leesburg yesterday, some pushing baby strollers along the W&OD Trail, through a new subdivision, across a highway overpass….
Torah from Terror By Mark MietkiewiczIn 2001, September 11 occurred less than one week before Rosh Hashanah (as it does again this year.) Rabbis dispensed with the Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur sermons they had prepared and wrote new ones to help their congregations grapple with the horrors they had just witnessed. Theirs were words…
Operation Bubbe is an effort to recruit Jews unhappy with the leadership in Washington who live in northeastern “safe states” to travel to Florida for the five day weekend before Election Day as Get Out The Vote (GOTV) volunteers to make sure Jewish retirees get to the polls. Once in Florida, volunteers will participate in…