No Freedom of the Jewish Press

While I suspected this from a personal e-mail I received from Rabbi David Wolpe a few days after his speech at the Seminary and then heard through rumors, it is now official that Rabbi Wolpe will not be considered for the Chancellor position at the Jewish Theological Seminary by his own choice.Based on what I…

Here’s a great trivia question: Who was the #2 pick in the NBA draft right after the Cleveland Cavaliers got superstar LeBron James?Yep, it was Darko Milicic. There is a vast sea of statistical difference between these two players. Darko has averaged less than two points a game during his disappointing NBA career while LeBron,…

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…

University of Wisconsin-Madison Hillel Professional Goes Homeless for Habitat for Humanity By Stephanie Simon Liz Fremer, the program associate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Hillel, went to have her old, dying car checked out a couple of weeks ago. The amount of money needed to fix her car far exceeded the actual face value of…

By Dan BaronJewish Telegraphic AgencyJERUSALEM — After 22 years of living as an Israeli, Justina Hilaria Chipana can finally consider herself a full-fledged member of the Jewish state. The 50-year-old native of Peru was one of 17 petitioners who won High Court of Justice recognition of their non-Orthodox conversions to Judaism on Thursday, in what…

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