Those omnipresent yellow Lance Armstrong bracelets are cool and all, but nothing shows that you’re livin’ strong like a blue “Chosen” silicon bendel from Kewlju.com.

VidLit, the same meshuggeneh tekkies who brought us Yiddish With Dick and Jane, have cooked up something kosher for Jewish singles: A promo for the Broadway show Modern Orthodox that stands on its own as three minutes of laughs. Watch it and let us know if we’re the only ones having erotic fantasies about gefilte fish.
c/o WeirdJews.

That’s Israeli PM Sharon and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas reaching across four years of violence and a really ugly flower arrangment to shake hands in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt today. Ceasefire starts now.
Photo c/o Reuters.

New Yorker film critic David Denby took his nasty review of Meet The Fockers just a bit too far when he blasted Ben Stiller as a “tiresome” screen presence and the “crudest version of the urban Jewish male on the make”. First of all, Stiller rules, ya hear? And second, where does Denby get off pigeonholing him as a “crude urban Jewish male” when his film career contains so many diverse roles, even some that aren’t even trying to be funny? (Permanent Midnight? Soo heavy.) We’d hire a coupla goons to fix Denby good, but Stiller’s onscreen (Zoolander, The Royal Tannenbaums) and offscreen pal Owen Wilson has already torn Denby a new one with his characteristic twisted charm in a letter to PageSix last week, reports Ireland Online.
Wilson’s pen may be mighty in defense of his buddy, but he admits to wanting to kick Denby’s ass as badly as we do: “The audience is practically howling for blood! I really wish I could deliver for them – but that’s Jackie Chan’s role.”

A little more proof that Maddonaesther’s version of Kabbalah is about as closely related to Judaism as lemurs are to humans: FOXNews orginally reported that Madonnaesther has cut off ties from the non-red string wearing members of her family, including her once-ubiquitous brother Christopher Ciccone.
A little Cult Kabbalah vs. Judaism, anyone?
Cult: Deny family of origin and any friends not therein associated; exclusively hang out with others who share a specific idealogy. Give said leaders of idealogy sh*tloads of money.
Judaism: Insist on maintaining relationships with anyone blood-related, no matter how distant or dysfunctional. If under 35, ask for money from said relations. If over 35, expect to be bled dry by younger generations.

The Brownsville Herald further explores the Mexo-Jewish connection in an article about the “mysterious” customs of some residents of the Rio Grande Valley.
Local historian Stuart Klein says: The Jewish migration was much larger than many people realize and began when Christopher Columbus set sail in 1492, landing in the Americas three months later. At least one of Columbus