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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…

Here’s my D’var Torah for this week’s Detroit Jewish News: BE LIKE NACHSHON! In 1991, the sports drink company Gatorade launched a multi-million dollar advertising campaign featuring basketball superstar Michael Jordan. The ad’s slogan was “Be Like Mike.” This catchphrase was either to get us to drink Gatorade after a workout as Michael Jordan does,…

Michigan alum’s passing seen as end of an eraSaturday, February 12, 2005BY ROGER LELIEVRENews Arts Writer The death of Arthur Miller, University of Michigan Class of ’38 and the man long considered the country’s most important playwright, marks a milestone for American theater – and U-M.[…]Growing up in New York, Miller worked between 1932 and…

For the past year I’ve been letting Elissa cut my hair. It’s pretty simple actually… we go in the basement, put the attachment on the electric razor, and 10 minutes later it’s done. Last night was different however. This is what happens when she forgets to put on the attachment!!! About 5 seconds into the…

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…

By Jay MichaelsonFrom the Jerusalem PostAsk anyone in the Jewish institutional community, and they will reply that demographics is not their primary concern; it’s their only concern. With study after study portending the imminent demise of the Jewish people, philanthropists and the institutions they support are scrambling to somehow avert extinction. Ironically, though, many efforts…