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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-ha...

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...

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 t...

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...

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 l...

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 c...

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 S...

"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 corre...

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 chur...

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...

_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...

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 ...