Heeb

Rick Lemberg, a 5 foot 7, 47-year-old ex-stockbroker, might’ve been held up at the metal detector at his San Jose, CA synagogue last Sunday. You see, he was there to entertain the congregation with a virtuosic display of knife-throwing, which followed a lecture on the checkered history of Jews and sports. Lemberg tossed 12-inch knives, an axe and a batarang at some wooden planks on the other side of the room to the delight of his co-congregants.

When even the post-service bagel-and-lox brunch can’t seem to keep attendance figures high, you know modern Judaism is facing a dilemma.