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From Edah On March 26, 2000, Pope John Paul II came to Jerusalem, to the heart of Israel, to that city to which all Jewish hearts have turned for 2000 years. He came to the Western Wall, adjacent to the Temple Mount. He placed a prayer in the Western Wall. It read: God of our…

Rabbi Danny Gordis, in his latest e-mail message, argues that the Right’s recent push to bring Christmas back to a religious Christian holiday and to make the U.S. realize that it really is a Christian nation (no kidding?) is actually great for the Jews and even better for the State of Israel. Here’s a snippet,…

From the Daily Show with Jon Stewart“Modonna is Jewish in the same way that she’s British!” (c) Rabbi Jason Miller | http://blog.rabbijason.com | Twitter: @RabbiJason | facebook.com/rabbijasonmiller

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…

I guess I never realized that Bill Murray’s 1993 movie “Groundhog Day” is such a religious resource. Today’s New York Times ran an article claiming that rabbis, priests, and Buddhist leaders all use the film in their sermons and classes. (c) Rabbi Jason Miller | http://blog.rabbijason.com | Twitter: @RabbiJason | facebook.com/rabbijasonmiller

University of Michigan students pick potatoes for the winter at the collective Jewish farm in Konotop. By Allison Goldstein While most students were bringing their summers to a close, 15 University of Michigan Hillel students were just beginning our adventure. On August 22, along with our rabbi and program director, we departed on a 10-day…