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- Conservative Judaism | Humor | Jon Stewart | Rabbi | Rabbis | satire
Conservative Rabbi on The Daily Show
My colleague, Rabbi Gideon Estes of Congregation Or Ami, played the straight man last night on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. After Justin Bieber opened the show pretending to be Jon Stewart, Estes had a tough act to follow, but did a great job. Daily Show correspondent John Oliver went down to Texas to…
- Humor | Jewish Law | Kosher
Conan O’Brien Teaches Halacha (Jewish Law)
As the founder and director of a kosher certification agency, people often send me anything and everything having anything to do with kosher certification. So last week when the Rabbinical Council of California first certified a sexual lubricant product as kosher and then rescinded the certification, you can imagine I received several articles about the…
The Man of 100 Voices
In Rabbinical School, I remember learning that in order to deliver good sermons a rabbi has to find his/her voice. Well, here’s a video of a man (Jared Gordon) who has found 100 other voices (and can do them in only 4 minutes). I’ve always been a fan of celebrity impressions and this guy is…
- Holidays | Jewish | Technology
Light From Left to Right
There’s a great new animation from the Jewish Robot (AKA Ben Baruch; AKA William Levin) on the My Jewish Learning website to teach how to light the Hanukkah candles (see below). This is the first in a new series of viral marketing animations called “The Adventures of Todd and God.” It’s great that Levin’s using…
- Humor | Jewish | Prayer | Ritual | World Events
Oh! The Plane’s Gonna’ Blow!
This is a poem I wrote about the incident last week when a Jewish 17-year-old boy caused a U.S. Airways flight to be diverted because the flight attendant thought his tefillin (phylacteries) were a bomb. It’s based on “Oh, the Places You Will Go!” by Dr. Seuss. Oh, the Plane’s Gonna’ Blow!By Rabbi Jason Miller(With…
Hebrew University’s Sarcasm Detector One of Year’s Best Inventions (Time Magazine)
Here is my most recent post on the Jewish Techs blog (The NY Jewish Week) Jews aren’t sarcastic at all! Okay, that was me being sarcastic, but the problem with the Jewish tradition of sarcasm is that it doesn’t translate well in Cyberspace where tone of speech doesn’t come through in text. That’s why it…