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Feline Führer

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...
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Jesus Saves, Moses Makes Viral Videos

Singer-songwriter Jill Sobule (of "I Kissed a Girl" fame) has "announced a contest":http://new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/jill_sobule/129/jesus-was-a-dreidel-spinner-a-video-contest to find the best music video for ...
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Auslander Trashes Hotel Room

As "remarked earlier":http://www.heebmagazine.com/blog/view/389, it's not easy being the second coming of Phillip Roth. The ex-ultra-Orthodox Shalom Auslander, whose novel "_Foreskin's Lament_":http://www.a...
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Does This Nose Make Me Look Fat?

And speaking of Jewish beauties, the ladies over at "Jezebel":http://jezebel.com/gossip/the-chosen-ones/maxim-entertainment-weekly-agree-jews-blacks-asians-not-so-sexy-315003.php rightly point out that the Arya...
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Just Say Na

"_Just Say Nu_":http://www.amazon.com/Just-Say-Nu-Yiddish-Occasion/dp/0312364628/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/102-0292499-2226507?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1192671694&sr=1-1 (St. Martin's), the follow-up to Michael Wex's cultural...
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Stalling for Time

When news of Senator Larry Craig's ill-fated "search for love":http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/docs/craig-arrest-doc/ in a Minnesota airport men's room first broke, we at Jewdar weren't sure if we should comme...
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Cruise Control

When Tom Cruise called "cut" to observe a moment of silence on the first day of shooting Bryan Singer's _Valkyrie_, he didn't expect "an unidentified crew member to cut the cheese":http://www.azcentral.com/ent/...
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The Best of 5767: Books

_As you might've heard, the lunar calendar finished its cycle and the Jewish year 5767 became 5768. We considered fireworks and a night of pick-pocketing in Times Square, but instead we decided to use the oppor...
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A Trip Down Mammary Lane

As you might recall, last month "a woman in Kentucky was razzed by Applebee's staff":http://www.heebmagazine.com/blog/view/326 for not covering up while suckling her tot. "To protest,":http://www.kentucky.com/2...
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No Brainer

We just got this in our inbox: "The Israel Project invites you to a telephone conference call and Q & A with: Mitchell Bard, Ph.D. author of "_The Complete Idiot's Guide to Middle East Conflict_":http://...