Jib Jab for Jews

This past week Elissa and I attended a wonderful speech by Starbucks’ Founder and Chairman Howard Schultz. He was the featured speaker at the Main Event — Jewish Federation of Washtenaw County’s (Ann Arbor) annual fundraiser. Schultz spoke of his beginnings, growing up poor in the Brooklyn projects with a blue-collar father who was unemployed…

Today is Ukraine Independence Day (and my mother’s birthday) and yesterday was Kharkov Victory Day, so it’s a wonderful time to be here in Kharkov. Our group is currently at the Kharkov Hillel office and the students and staff are great. Here is the press release about our mission: AMERICAN JEWISH JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE SENDING…

‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ clears murder suspect Tuesday, June 1, 2004 LOS ANGELES (AP) — “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” an HBO show known for its acerbic wit, accidentally helped deliver a happy ending to a man who had been charged with murder. Juan Catalan spent 5 1/2 months in jail on murder charges before his attorney found…

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 Michigan DailyHillel opens new learning center By Laura Frank, Daily Staff ReporterSeptember 21, 2005 The new Jewish Learning Center at Hillel, which officially opened on Monday, is only the size of an average University classroom, but organizers hope the spirit of learning that grows from this one room will be much larger. The…

By Associated Press January 6, 2004, 8:44 PM ESTsize> DES MOINES, Iowa — Federal spending was the topic and Democratic presidential hopeful Dennis Kucinich came prepared with a pie chart to argue his point about a bloated Pentagon budget. But although many listened to Tuesday’s presidential debate, few could see the Ohio congressman’s prop. The…