Sociologist Marvin Schick takes out a paid ad in each week’s New York Jewish Week to publish his personal views. A few weeks ago, he wrote his assessment of the Conservative Movement. If you are interested in reading his views, click here to go to the essay.
A year ago I wrote about
2004—A Year For Witches By George F. Will Newsweek In 2004 an IBM supercomputer set a world record with 36.01 trillion calculations per second. The U.S. electorate may have made its calculation the instant John Kerry, who is not a supercomputer, explained why Toy’s restaurant in Canonsburg, Pa., “is my kind of place”: “You don’t…
From the Daily Show with Jon Stewart“Modonna is Jewish in the same way that she’s British!” (c) Rabbi Jason Miller | http://blog.rabbijason.com | Twitter: @RabbiJason | facebook.com/rabbijasonmiller
A dime has 118 ridges around the edge. A cat has 32 muscles in each ear. A crocodile cannot ! stick out its tongue. A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours. A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds. A “jiffy” is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second….
This is an article about my classmate, colleague and friend Rabbi Susie Tendler. Susie is now the Assistant Rabbi at Beth David in Greensboro, NC. By Nancy H. McLaughlin Staff Writer News & Record GREENSBORO — The yarmulke question came up the second day of Rosh Hashana, when Rabbi Susie Tendler, newly arrived at Beth…
Michigan Students Celebrate Israeli Culture at First “Balagan!” Carnival October 11, 2004 By Eve Lieberman The American Movement for Israel, the University of Michigan’s Israel advocacy group, drew thousands of interested students to its first annual “Balagan!” Carnival. The carnival highlighted many aspects of Israeli culture and society that are often overshadowed by regional conflict….