Moment Magazine Caption Contest

ByRabbi Jason Miller March 5, 2010

I am a finalist in the January/February 2010 Moment Magazine caption contest. Please vote for me by clicking here.

This is the cartoon (by Bob Mankoff) and the caption I wrote:

Thanks, Mr. Gates, but I think I’ll just wait for Apple to release its version.

My other submissions for a caption to this cartoon were:

“Is there a charge to download with that? Because I don’t think this people will go for it.”

“Here’s version 2.0, but please don’t throw this one, it’s not under warranty?”

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Torah From Terror
ByRabbi Jason Miller September 9, 2011

Following the Jewish High Holiday season in 2001, I decided to collect the sermons that rabbis had delivered about 9/11. I knew that on September 11 most rabbis already had drafts of their High Holiday sermons completed, but after the attacks that day these rabbis would have to rewrite those sermons. That tragic day left…

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God bless the Bedouin People
ByRabbi Jason Miller December 30, 2004

Ten-and-a-half years ago I came to Mamshit Camel Ranch, a Bedouin Village, close to Demona in the Negev desert in Israel. I was a participant on USY Israel Pilgrimage (Group 3) and celebrated my 18th birthday in the Bedouin tent. To my young eyes it appeared to be a fairly realistic Bedouin experience complete with…

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Jewish Wrestler Randy Savage Dies
ByRabbi Jason Miller May 20, 2011

I grew up watching the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) on TV. In fact, I even went to three WWF events including Wrestlemania 3 in 1987 at the Pontiac Silverdome. My two favorite wrestlers were Hulk Hogan and Randy Savage. Randy Savage, who was known as “The Macho Man,” died in a car accident this morning…

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Ryan Braun Revisited
ByRabbi Jason Miller September 25, 2007

Since my posting about the decisions that Jewish professional athletes make about whether to play on Yom Kippur, I’ve received many inquiries as to whether Ryan Braun actually played on the Day of Atonement. Yes, he did play, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Braun will play: Third baseman Ryan Braun said he would play…

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Is Facebook Chametz?
ByRabbi Jason Miller March 24, 2010

Cross-posted to Jewish Techs Is Facebook kosher? If so, is it kosher for Passover? I’m not posing the question of whether it is acceptable to log on to Facebook on the first and last days of Passover, when observant Jews refrain from using computers or the Web. Rather, is Facebook activity allowed at all during…

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Do-overs and Learning From Mistakes
ByRabbi Jason Miller April 12, 2012April 5, 2015

This is my contribution to the HuffPost Religion’s Omer Liveblog, which features blogs, prayers, art and reflections for all 49 days of spiritual reflection between Passover and Shavuot: “The broken tablets were put with the new ones into the Ark.” –Talmud, Menachot 99a What can we learn from the fact that Moses put the broken…

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