CRUSY Regional Convention

Zeke is coming to the Big Apple to head up the front office of the Knicks. I’m pretty sure that he’s held on to his Lone Pine Road (Bloomfield Hills) home while living in Toronto (Raptors owner and VP of Basketball Ops) and in Indiana (Pacers Head Coach). I wonder if he’ll sell it now….

Jewsweek called it back in July when they put Jon Stewart on their list of the hottest people and things in Judaism. And I’ve known for years now that Jon Stewart is the funniest talking head on late night TV. So, now the rest of the world has caught up and Newsweek has him gracing…

I just landed in Amsterdam (on my way to Ukraine with 15 University of Michigan students) and it’s very rainy. The architecture is beautiful and the people seem very nice. I’ll be leaving for Kiev in a few hours to spend the day there and then it is off to Kharkov to meet the 15…

So many people are citing this year’s Super Bowl as the proof of a complete absence of dignity and moral behavior in our society. Whether that’s correct or not, the New Jersey Jewish News Editor Andrew Silow-Carroll makes a great argument. Mauled in America (by Andrew Silow-Carroll, New Jersey Jewish News) It’s Super Bowl Sunday,…

During the economic crisis, non-profits have had to up the ante when it comes to large-scale fundraising events. Organizations that creativity and innovation

Rabbi Arthur Hertzberg died this past Monday, but I am only able to now find the time after the end of the Passover holiday to blog about this news. I never met Rabbi Hertzberg, a liberal Conservative rabbi ordained by The Jewish Theological Seminary in 1943, though I taught Religious School in his synagogue for…