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This past Sunday I attended a funeral and a Bat Mitzvah celebration. Sounds like nothing new or different for a rabbi. But I was able to “be at” these two life-cycle events without ever leaving the comfort of my home… or the comfort of my couch for that matter. The Funeral I didn’t start watching…

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…

From the creator of the “Who Let the Jews Out” animation to advertise Sam Apple’s book Shlepping Through the Alps comes this new animation to promote Taglit/birthright israel: SHOFAR IDOL (c) Rabbi Jason Miller | http://blog.rabbijason.com | Twitter: @RabbiJason | facebook.com/rabbijasonmiller

Kolel Moshe Lifelong Learning Institute: Meets at Congregation B’nai Moshe, 6800 Drake, West Bloomfield. Nancy Kaplan: 248-737-1931. “The Joseph Story: Setting the Stage for Development of the Jewish People,” 11 a.m. Dec. 12. Brunch and Learn program with Rabbi Jason A. Miller of the Hillel Foundation at the University of Michigan. Cosponsored with Congregation Chaye…

Rabbi Arthur Hertzberg died this past Monday, but I am only able to now find the time after the end of the Passover holiday to blog about this news. I never met Rabbi Hertzberg, a liberal Conservative rabbi ordained by The Jewish Theological Seminary in 1943, though I taught Religious School in his synagogue for…

Michigan alum’s passing seen as end of an eraSaturday, February 12, 2005BY ROGER LELIEVRENews Arts Writer The death of Arthur Miller, University of Michigan Class of ’38 and the man long considered the country’s most important playwright, marks a milestone for American theater – and U-M.[…]Growing up in New York, Miller worked between 1932 and…