Not sure if this is a good thing or a bad thing?
And it’s surprising that God only has 18 followers on Twitter.
Everyone is talking about the faux pas at Balducci’s, the “food lover’s market” in New York City. Last week, blogger Nancy Kay Shapiro saw that Balducci’s had labeled its hams with pricing signs advertising “Delicious for Chanukah” and returned the next day with her camera in hand. Just about every newspaper in the country picked…
Here’s my recent post on the Jewish Techs blog for The Jewish Week If you didn’t receive numerous email solicitations from non-profit organizations during the final week of 2010, then your email server was likely down. Many of these charitable organizations that sent year end pleas for your contributions have begun using Razoo.com, which claims…
This is a poem I wrote about the incident last week when a Jewish 17-year-old boy caused a U.S. Airways flight to be diverted because the flight attendant thought his tefillin (phylacteries) were a bomb. It’s based on “Oh, the Places You Will Go!” by Dr. Seuss. Oh, the Plane’s Gonna’ Blow!By Rabbi Jason Miller(With…
Today is the 13th day of the Omer, the period of forty-nine days between the Jewish holidays of Passover and Shavuot. The Jewish people are commanded to count these forty-nine days which commemorate the day on which an omer (unit of measurement) of barley was offered in the Temple until the day before an offering of…
When it comes to Hanukkah there’s really only been one traditional way to play Dreidel. The four sided spinning top has four Hebrew letters on it. Each letter tells you what to do if it lands on that letter — you win, you get half, etc. It might be fun the first time you play,…
I saw this on the news yesterday and then read the Reuters article on Jeremy Fogel’s blog. This poor guy in Vancouver back in 2005 was jogging when lightning struck his i-Pod and severely injured him. The complete article is available here.In the article by Gene Emery, doctors explained that the jogger was wearing an…