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You Don't Have to be Jewish ...to get heartburn from this record. Considering that Jackie Mason is currently on Broadway with his seventh one-man show, there's no reason why this comedy relic from the last mil...

Rabbis in Kilts What fun-loving Orthodox rabbi doesn't want to frolic around in a skirt every once in a while? You've got to give it up for these free-balling, wild and crazy Scotsmen. Malted whiskey, bagpipes...

Impressions Under Water by Leni Riefenstahl Hitler's little media darling will soon release a 45-minute documentary about life in the Indian Ocean, with footage taken from over two thousand dives. Riefenstahl'...

France Tourism down in the land of waifs and dog shit? Ah, gay Paris ...

Cleveland Cleveland deftly illustrates how a city can funnel millions of dollars into subsidizing fancy new sports arenas (at the expense of little things like, oh, city schools and public housing), but when a...

The Jewish Roll The Japanese cats over at Crazy Fish restaurant in Los Angeles are just calling it what it is. No need to gloss things over by calling it a "Philadelphia Roll" or a "Brooklyn Roll" like other r...

Vader Abraham im Land der Schlumpfe I'm assuming that Vader Abraham is the guy on the cover of this obscure vinyl 45", but why is he singing love songs to oversized Smurfs? Is he supposed to be Hasidic or ju...

Brooklyn Babylon, directed by Marc Levin Everyone from the New York Times to Artisan, the company that funded it, hated this updated King Solomon and Queen of Sheeba love story. They hated it so much that it...

The Black Hat This style is truly fly. Not only does it go with any outfit, but the black fedora is just straight hustler. Humphrey Bogart might have popularized it, but the Baal Shem Tov pioneered the look at...

Manishewitz cherry wine Different fruit, same toxic dreck. Really, wasn't it insulting enough to do this to grapes? They should have quit while they were ahead (with everyone passed out in the puke on their se...

Senator Diane Feinstein (D-Calif.) Diane Feinstein is the uber-carpool mom. Just look at her. Now imagine that it's 7:35 on Sunday morning and you scramble out to her honking station wagon. You're sitting in t...

King Zionic Root Drink Another fun, vaguely familiar find from the West Indian depths of Brooklyn. This one evokes images of muscular Rastas at work, quenching their Zionic Man thirst with funny-sounding herbs...