Jewish Kids Get Detroit Tigers Fever

ByRabbi Jason Miller October 10, 2011

Detroit is enjoying a very exciting sports season this autumn. The Detroit Lions are heading into tonight’s Monday Night Football game against the Chicago Bears with a 4-0 record (their best since 1980) and the Detroit Tigers are in the American League Championship Series against the Texas Rangers. The Detroit Red Wings are undefeated so far this season. The University of Michigan football team is 6-0 and Michigan State University’s football team is 4-1 (undefeated in the Big Ten Conference) as the two teams face off against each other this weekend at Spartan Stadium in East Lansing.

After seeing David Craffey‘s creative photo going around Facebook of a little girl writing her alphabet on a chalkboard in which she writes the ‘D’ as the Olde English ‘D’ of the Detroit Tigers logo, I decided to create the Hebrew School version of the photo in which the Hebrew letter dalet becomes the iconic Detroit Tigers ‘D’. Here’s my attempt:

Inspired by David Craffey Design

Go Tigers!

Globalization | Jewish | Politics | Rabbis | Uganda

My Ugandan National Parliament Endorsement
ByRabbi Jason Miller December 7, 2010

As a rabbi, I’m hesitant to publicly endorse any political candidates. First, I try to keep my politics private; and second, I don’t want to jeopardize the tax-exempt status of any non-profit organizations which I represent. However, I’m going to go out on a limb here and endorse my friend and rabbinic colleague for Uganda’s…

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Basketball | Hebrew | Israel | Sports

Omri Casspi Says Sheket B’vakasha
ByRabbi Jason Miller March 10, 2011

Urban Dictionary defines “Boomshakalaka” as “An onomatopoeic ‘in your face.’ Originally the sound of a slam-dunk in basketball — the “boom” being the dunk, and the “shakalaka” being the rattling of the backboard.” In the early years of ESPN, it was common to hear an ESPN personality throw out an energetic “boomshakalaka” when showing the…

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Food | Holidays | Humor | Jewish | Passover

Uses for Leftover Matzah?
ByRabbi Jason Miller April 11, 2010

James Besser, Washington Correspondent and New Media Editor of The New York Jewish Week, asked me to come up with a Top Ten list of uses for leftover Passover matzah. But being busy trying to catch up with post-Passover work, I was only able to come up with five. (Who am I kidding? Even if…

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Baseball | Detroit Tigers | Holocaust | Jewish | Sports

Jewish History Through Baseball
ByRabbi Jason Miller June 14, 2013April 5, 2015

I was recently asked to review Irwin Cohen’s new book, Jewish History in the Time of Baseball’s Jews: Life On Both Sides of the Ocean, for the Michigan Jewish Historical Society’s upcoming annual journal. Cohen, who writes for the Jewish Press, is a baseball maven and a history buff who has chronicled Detroit’s Jewish history and…

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Jewish | Jewish Law | Judaism and Technology | Literature | Shabbat | Technology

Curling Up With an E-Book on Shabbat?
ByRabbi Jason Miller December 22, 2010

Cross-posted to the Jewish Techs blog at The Jewish Week Tech gadgets have changed our lives. And they will change our lives even more in the future. For Sabbath observant Jews, tech gadgets pose some lingering questions about their usage on Shabbat. My teacher, Rabbi Daniel Nevins, is a member of the Committee on Jewish…

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Conservative Judaism | Ethics | Food | Jewish | Kosher | Orthodox Judaism | Values

What is Glatt Kosher
ByRabbi Jason Miller November 21, 2011

As a panelist for Jewish Values Online, I am asked to weigh in on various values-based questions from the perspective of a Conservative rabbi. A recent question I was asked to respond to was odd in that it wasn’t a question that had to do with values. I was asked to answer the difference between…

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