I’m not alone in hoping to see a better Jewish athlete than Shawn Green in my lifetime, but when the talented Orthodox Jewish boxer from Brooklyn Dmitriy Salita destroyed Fabian Luque (his over-matched, love-handled challenger from Tijuana) on Thursday night, my heart didn’t exactly beat to the strains of Hatikvah. Salita easily knocked Luque down...

Following the martyrdom of characters like Farfur (the terror-preaching mouse) and Nahul (the bee to whom Israelis denied medical care,) viewers of the Hamas-authorized children’s show Tomorrow’s Pioneers were left without a cuddly anti-Semitic creature. Enter the show’s newest host, Assud the rabbit–a Bugs Bunny rip-off who leads children in catchy songs like "We Will...

Mel Gibson is being sued by his co-screenwriter ofThe Passion of the Christ. No, we don’t mean Jesus, we mean Benedict Fitzgerald, who claims that Gibson breached their contract. Fitzgerald claims that he had to fight to receive his production bonus and that the Australian auteur "preyed monetarily" upon him–all the while as Gibson positioned...

In other news from the world of Holocaust iconography, the German Green Party recently used an image of a cat that resembles Adolf Hitler on a poster that criticizes Germany’s extreme-right parties. In response, the website catsthatlooklitehitler.com lashed out at the Green Party’s for photoshopping their image instead of depicting one of their real-life, naturally-patterned...

Orthodox Stance, Jason Hutt’s documentary about Dmitriy Salita, the professional boxer and observant Jew from Brooklyn, does not want to just be a gefilte fish-out-of-water story, but unfortunately, it offers little else. Hutt sets out to document how Salita navigates the seemingly incompatible worlds of professional boxing and Orthodox Judaism, but by the time he...

After four years of debate, the “F.D.A. ruled today”:http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/15/business/15cnd-clone.html?em&ex=1200546000&en=fd2c8ce3ecc662cc&ei=5087%0A that food from cloned animals is safe for human consumption. Before you plan on indulging in a motherless cheeseburger with impunity, keep in mind that the “kosher command center”:http://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/474740/jewish/Cloned-Animals-Meat.htm has already nixed that possibility.

Unlike “_Ms._”:http://www.heebmagazine.com/blog/view/485, the British men’s mag _Arena_ has no qualms about boasting of Israeli female achievement. In its February issue, _Arena_ “bestows 22-year old Victoria Secret’s model Bar Refaeli”:http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/943601.html with the honor of the “body of 2008.”

“On _Slate_”:http://www.slate.com/id/2179830/, Bonnie Goldstein writes that Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad “seems to welcome dissent” on his “official blog”:http://www.ahmadinejad.ir/. Goldstein is correct to point out that Westerners can engage the president in an open forum in English or French on the blog and have done so with comments that are at times intensely critical. However, she...

Apparently, the only piece of Jesus that didn’t rise to heaven—his foreskin— “is missing.”:http://www.startribune.com/lifestyle/faith/12248886.html The prepuce had supposedly been kept above the altar of a church in Calcata, Italy for over four centuries, only appearing in public once a year for the Feast of the Holy Circumcision. No one has actually seen the holy hood...

This Hanukkah, an explosion of viral Jewish music videos hits the web, each with its own unique blend of Jewish and pop cultural elements. If you appreciate truly bizarre Jewish esoterica (like we do) then here are a few you shouldn’t miss: 1. Kosher Crunk It’s the _Jazz Singer_ meets the Dirty South in “this...

_Time Out_ may have published “our holiday gift guide”:http://www.timeout.com/newyork/articles/features/24789/festival-of-delights, but far be it from us to claim that we’re the sole arbiters of Jewish present-giving. In fact, no matter how you’re opting to construct yourself as a capitalist subject this holiday season, it seems like there is a gift guide out there for you. Here...

In a recent “article in _Slate_”:http://www.slate.com/id/2179045/ Christopher Hitchens critiques Hannukah and promotes the removal of menorahs from public spaces. According to Hitchens, the holiday that we now celebrate with dreidels and latkes, actually triumphs “theocratic darkness.” Apparently, the British-born anti-theist who found out that his mother’s mother was a Jew only five years ago already...