TMZ Notices LeBron’s Wedding’s on Yom Kippur

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,…

October 14, 2004 Google Introduces Search Program for Hard Drives By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (AP) — Google Inc. on Thursday became the first tech heavyweight to tackle the daunting task of uncluttering computers, introducing a program that quickly scours hard drives for documents, e-mails, instant messages and past Web searches. With the…

This is a very well written teshuva (Jewish legal responsum) on homosexual relationships by Rabbi Simchah Roth (Conservative), who lives in Israel. Regardless of one’s personal opinion on the matter, it is valuable to investigate the core issues that Rabbi Roth raises. Dear David is available online. (c) Rabbi Jason Miller | http://blog.rabbijason.com | Twitter:…

It’s always fun to see the results when one Googles one’s own name. Here’s what I recently found when doing a Google search for “Rabbi Jason Miller”: 1) I was named in a recent (October 2006) New Jersey Jewish News article about the Gladstein Fellowship program at the Jewish Theological Seminary, now called the Emerging…

Is George W. Bush a mentsch? From the Dallas Morning News Thanksgiving Pilgrimage: Mensch in cowboy boots merits praiseA Fox News correspondent in Iraq said that when he told soldiers the commander in chief had been in Iraq for a Thanksgiving visit hours earlier, all the troops could say was, “Wow!” We know how they…

Everyone’s been talking about the American Comedy Network’s “Matzo Man” – the dancing matzahs parody on the Village People’s “Macho Man” song. But I found the 60-second seder to be a great animation for Passover as well. It’s done by the Ramat Hasharon (Israel) web design studio Z-Kit and it’s just what my relatives have…