From the Bush League

University of Michigan students pick potatoes for the winter at the collective Jewish farm in Konotop. By Allison Goldstein While most students were bringing their summers to a close, 15 University of Michigan Hillel students were just beginning our adventure. On August 22, along with our rabbi and program director, we departed on a 10-day…

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…

Mazel Tov to Bill Davidson, Tom Wilson, Joe Dumars, Coach Larry Brown, and the entire Pistons Basketball team for a most impressive NBA Championship win over the Los Angeles Lakers in five games! (c) Rabbi Jason Miller | http://blog.rabbijason.com | Twitter: @RabbiJason | facebook.com/rabbijasonmiller

My good friends, Alex and Peri Sinclair, created their own version of Eishet Chayyil. The lyrics are below with the sources noted. It is sung at the Shabbat dinner table before making Kiddush. אֵשֶׁת חַיִל size>מאֵת אלכּס ופּארי סנקלר‎ אֵשֶת חַיִל מִי יִמְצָא וְרָחוֹק מִפְּנִינִים מִכְרָהּ בָּטַח בָּהּ לֵב בַּעְלָהּ וְשָׁלָל לֹא יֶחְסָר גְּמָלַתְהוּ טוֹב…

Google Talk – Type three of four words, and Google Talk will finish your thought Funkatizer – Type anything, and it will be translated into a variety of funny dialects Anagrams – Type any name and anagrams will appear Googlism – Type any name and thousands of websites will give their opinion of that name…

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