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Mazel Tov to Jon Stewart and the Daily Show team
From the Emmy-award winning “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart” comes this great piece of dialogue: Stephen Colbert: “I’m Steven Colbert and I wish you Jon a most joyous Yom Kippur.” Jon Stewart: “Um Steven, Yom Kippur is the Jewish Day of Atonement.” Stephen Colbert: “But isn’t that your biggest holiday?” Jon Stewart: “It is…
Beit Kodesh on the Cover of the Detroit Jewish News
From the Detroit Jewish News COVER STORY: A New BeginningCongregation revitalizes Wayne County Synagogue Shelli Liebman DorfmanStaff WriterRabbi Jason Miller often heard the same skeptical question when he mentioned Congregation Beit Kodesh. “They’d come back with, ‘Really? There’s a shul in Livonia?’” said Rabbi Miller, who admits driving past and forgetting it was there, too….
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Beware of Suspicious Reference Books
Since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, few items have gained as much notoriety or aroused as much suspicion as box cutters. And other previously mundane objects, from crop dusters to the little knives attached to nail clippers, have drawn the concerns of those trying to keep the U.S. safe and inured a wary public to…
Racism Studies Find Rational Part of Brain Can Override Prejudice
From the Wall Street Journal (11-19-04) By SHARON BEGLEY When scientists theorize about why racism is pervasive — so much so that some have suggested it is hard-wired into us — they come up with something like this: Back when humans were venturing out of the species’ birthplace in east Africa, each little band mostly…
The Passover Seder in 60 seconds
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…