From my friend Jeremy Fogel’s blog Just Stam:
Think you know your colors? Some cool illusions that demonstrate that color is really relative. What do you think?
From Google Blogoscoped
By Dennis Prager size> If you want to understand the Middle East conflict, Iran has just provided all you need to know. A massive earthquake kills between 20,000 and 40,000 Iranians, and the government of Iran announces that help is welcome from every country in the world . . . except Israel. This little-reported news…
In the early 1990s I was an active leader in my synagogue’s high school youth group. Even as a young teen I appreciated the importance of communication in cultivating new members to the congregation’s chapter of United Synagogue Youth (USY) and for keeping current members abreast of upcoming events. This membership communication came in the…
From the New York Times A Happy Hipster HanukkahBy STEPHANIE ROSENBLOOM HELLOOOOOOOO Jews!” the M.C. shouted to the 1,000 or so people sipping drinks and jostling elbows in the hazy purple light of Crobar, the Chelsea club, on Sunday evening. Disco balls twinkled. Electric menorahs glowed. In the candlelighted V.I.P. area, people bit into chocolate…
Global access to some of Jewish history’s most outstanding literary treasures is now just a mouse click away through JTS Library Treasures, a new online resource of The Library of The Jewish Theological Seminary. Prepared with the generous support of George Blumenthal of New York City and the extraordinary photographic skills of Ardon Bar Hama…
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
Breaking News Ariel Sharon reportedly weighs 312 pounds. Ma’ariv published the statistic Thursday following speculation over whether the portly Israeli prime minister was dangerously heavy. Sharon was briefly hospitalized for a stroke earlier this week, drawing dieting advice from the likes of President Bush. Ma’ariv quoted Sharon’s doctors as saying he should shed 145 pounds….