Everyone is trying to get a glimpse of "Miller Lite" (The Yet to Be Named Baby Miller)

Jewish Actress Helps Expand Trauma Unit For Jerusalem Hospital Jerusalem’s Hadassah hospital received a $50 million donation last week from one of the people born there – famed Jewish actress Natalie Portman. Portman’s donation is earmarked for an improved and expanded emergency trauma center being funded by the Hadassah Women’s Zionist movement. The expansion will…

12 people turn into 13 people! Count the people, wait until they shift, and then count them again. Hmmm… I wonder if this trick would work when we only have 9 for a minyan? Send this to someone else (c) Rabbi Jason Miller | http://blog.rabbijason.com | Twitter: @RabbiJason | facebook.com/rabbijasonmiller

A World of Pain (courtesy of BoingBoing) Professor Jasper Rine lectures at UC Berkeley. Recently his laptop was stolen by a thief who was after exam data. Unfortunately for the thief, Professor Rine had some important stuff on that laptop. Click here to download the lecture in MP3 format. Here’s a transcript of the last…

From the HoustonChronicle.comApril 23, 2005 Use of B.C. and A.D. faces changing times: Some teachers and historians are using alternatives to Christian-based designations By MICHAEL GORMLEYAssociated Press ALBANY, N.Y. – In a world encouraged to embrace differences, B.C. and A.D. are increasingly finding themselves on the wrong end of the religious sensitivity meter. Educators and…

This is hillarious (c) Rabbi Jason Miller | http://blog.rabbijason.com | Twitter: @RabbiJason | facebook.com/rabbijasonmiller

Since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, few items have gained as much notoriety or aroused as much suspicion as box cutters. And other previously mundane objects, from crop dusters to the little knives attached to nail clippers, have drawn the concerns of those trying to keep the U.S. safe and inured a wary public to…