Carla Bruni’s husband, Nicolas Sarkozy, took the stage this morning in front of his country’s parliament, breaking a longstanding national tradition of keeping the executive and legislative branches in different rooms at all times. Aside from some blah blah blah about the economy and a bit of Obama-style hope/change talk, the stand-out statements of Sarkozy’s...

Former Hitler Youth member and current Pope, Benedict XVI, has been told that he cannot wear his usual golden cross (or any cross at all for that matter) during his upcoming visit to the Western Wall in Jerusalem. The Holy Father, who believes that Holocaust denial is more acceptable than condoms, is slated to visit...

What ifJosef Mengele, the infamous Nazi "Angel of Death," continued his twisted work after fleeing Europe? What if he operated in secret, under assumed names, carrying out hissick genetic experimentsin an attempt to create a master race? No it’s notthat movie with Lawrence Olivier, but it’s similar, and includes just as manycreepy kids. Yesterday, theNew...

We recently received a press release about the Jewish outreach group known has Aish HaTorah, who has begun to offer "deskside" Rabbinic consultation and ask as "personal spiritual trainers" for executives at some of Wall Street’s biggest firms. According to the the press release: "Once a week, a Rabbi comes to the office of young...

We’ve come to his rescue before, but WTF Salkin? Heeb contributor, New York Times writer, Seinfeld exploiter and Lisa Loeb dumpee Allen Salkin has written an article, which is currently the most read on The New York Times website. In it, he details the difficulty of living in New York on a paltry $500,000 a...

Eddy Curry, former Chicago Bull, current New York Knick, and all-around fatso, has some big, fat litigation coming his way. The oversized Curry, former NBA leader in field goal percentage (like five years ago…whatever) is being sued by his driver, one David Kuchinsky, for making him clean up his cum-rags, and calling him mean, racially-charged...

by Jed Oelbaum Ernesto Guevara, doctor, Jedi freedom fighter, popular T-shirt design and the subject of Steven Soderbergh’s fawning four and a half hour Che, was executed in Bolivia, already beaten down by the rigors of his failed insurgency, still high off the fumes of Cuba’s revolutionary success. The Bolivian campaign, which makes up the...

Matisyahu, a sub-Weird Al novelty music act, has begun his eight-part series of Chanukkah shows here in NYC. The series is called the "Festival of Lights," and each night of the holiday, he will perform with a different opener, celebrating the underdog victory of his namesake, and the long-standing Jewish tradition of making bank off...

Though the debate rages as to whether it contributed to the etymology of the phrase "tushy-shtupp," Yiddish, as far as I’ve been able to tell, is the funniest language out there.Thanks to blissful ignorance, and a deep, abiding xenophobia, I tend to find anything overdubbed hilarious, and that goes double for anything voiced-over in that...

The controversy over LDS posthumousbaptisms continues. See, the Mormons have this thing in which they offer salvation to the dead by performing rites that "baptize" them in absentia, giving even us backward Jews a glimpse at heaven.Thanks, guys! All kinds of celebrity figures, including Adolf Hitler and Irving Berlin, have beenincluded in these rituals,as well...

Hahahaha. So Susanne Klatten, Germany’s richest woman, and BMW heiress, has been caught in an intricate blackmail scheme, complete with sex tapes, buried money, a gigolo named Helg Sgarbi and a supposed intergenerational Nazi revenge scenario. Awesome. Sgarbi, working with an Italian hotel owner named Ernano Barretta, would rendezvous with the married Klatten, while Barretta...

Plat Prefere, a Belgian cooking showthat highlights the favorite meals of the famous and dead, had to cancel an episode in which Hitler’s preferred trout recipe was prepared athis Kehlsteinhaus, or Eagle’s Nest retreat, in the Bavarian Alps. So much for the "Hitler was a vegetarian" theory, I guess. A coalition of concentration camp survivors...