A nice catch by Rabbi Jason Miller (and even nicer of him to record it and put it up on YouTube)…
This week, Rabbi Joyce Newmark, a Conservative rabbi from Teaneck, NJ, won $29,000 on Jeopardy. The next episode, Trebek even gave a shout out to her ordination anniversary and asked her what it’s like being a female rabbi. A cool video:
The grave of this second century rabbi is the site of a large annual pilgrimage.
For hundreds of years, most Persian musicians were Jews.
A former Soviet dissident, Sharansky spent nine years in prison and became the face of the movement to free Jews living under communism.