"Torah From Terror" in USA Today

Shalom TV made national television news last night–albeit on the comedy channel–when Samantha Bee of “The Daily Show” featured the Jewish-oriented network in her report called “This Week In God.” After playing a Shalom TV clip in which Rabbi Mark S. Golub welcomes viewers to “the first national Jewish television network in America,” Ms. Bee…

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…

Stephanie Lowenthal, birthright israel’s 100,000th participant, arrived on Sunday afternoon in Israel. I’m not sure how they made her the 100,000th, but it is certainly a fine choise. She is a 26-year-old New Yorker who works for the communications department of the NASDAQ Stock Market, and they will no doubt capitalize off her publicity and…

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Last night Showtime aired the 100th episode of its long-running hit Weeds. However, one of the show’s most popular actors wasn’t watching it when it was first shown since it was the middle of the night for him. Alexander Gould plays “Shane Botwin” on Weeds, a show about a middle class family from California that…

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…