From JTA:
In yet another example of a group using Holocaust imagery to make a point and having it backfire (see Wal-Mart campaign post), the Church of Scientology is using death camp photos to illustrate their campaign against the “psuedo science” of psychiatry. In a German traveling exhibit that decrys Sigmund Freud “a drug-abusing promoter of promiscuity,” the suggestion is that the Holocaust was somehow caused by psychiatrists, which hardly suprises Anti-Defamation League Abraham Foxman.
It doesn’t surprise us either, but when are p.r. people going to realize using the Shoah as a benchmark and comparing their cause only hurts their credibility? Lord knows, Scientology needs all the help it can get.
(Photo of Scientologist Tom Cruise goin’ apesh*t on Oprah c/o MSNBC Media.

Oops, forgot to credit Phil Spector’s laughable locks photos as AP. And while we trolling around for musical Jew industry info, we came upon the Jewsrock.org blog, whose title for the Spector item is similar to ours, and we just wanna say it’s a coincidence. Chalk it up to 100th monkey syndrome or sumpin’.
The Jewsrock.org site, btw, simply rocks. These are the same dudes who were slapped with a copyright lawsuit by the plainly humorless Rock N’ Roll Hall of Fame Museum for trying to launch a Jewish Rock N’ Roll Hall of Fame web site earlier this year (the URL still exists, but doesn’t redirect to jewsrock.org.) Rather than fight the Museum’s battalion of lawyers, they surfed the loads of free publicity and came up with a new name. There’s some real gems: Dropping the Baum: The Real Names of Jewish Rockers and an interview with Maroon 5’s Adam Levine—oh, and some photos of Bono’s mogen david armband. And they’ve linked Jmerica, which means they like us, too. Feelin’ the love.

Music producer Phil Spector may be on trial for the murder of Lana Clarkson, but it’s his hair that needs to prove itself innocent. The Boston Herald likens it to a “Chia pet gone wild” and reports what all the clever bloggers have to say about what could be the most distracting courtroom maneuver since Michael Jackson’s p.j.s.

Critics are taking Cinderella Man director Ron Howard to task for downplaying the significance of Jewish boxer Max Baer in the film. Craig Bierko portrays Baer as a clownish wrecking ball with fists who shows no remorse for killing a man in the ring, but Hollywood has it all wrong. Shocking, we know.
Baer’s son, Max Jr., (who played hunky hick Jethro Bodine on The Beverly Hillbillies) says they “distorted his [father’s] character” and discredit Baer’s entire career by dismissing how in 1933, he lead a Jewish pride revolution by sporting a huge mogen david on his trunks and pounding Nazi darling Max Schmeling into the floor for ten rounds.
Granted, Cinderella Man focuses on the life of Jimmy Braddock, and a director has only so many minutes to tell a story before sugar-addled American audiences get distracted. But when does Baer get his own movie? Weinstein brothers, where art thou?

photo c/o Slate.

Thanks to Weird Jews who directed us to this Washington Times article about another tribe of Israel that once was lost and now is found: The B’nei Menashe, descendants of Joseph’s son Manasseh, live in Northeast India between Myanmar and Bangladesh and have returned to a Jewish way of life after been in exile for over 2700 years. Many of them would like to return to Israel, actually, but they’d better get in line: there’s still a whole lotta Falash Mura still in Ethiopia.
We grew up thinking all Jews were either Ashkenazic Eastern Europeans like us or Sephardic Middle Easterners. We always understood that there were ten other tribes that dispersed throughout the world, but we figured they’d assimilated with the locals and that was that. Each time new information surfaces about Judaism kept alive in crazy places like Burma (which makes ghetto Warsaw look like…well, maybe not Disneyland, but perhaps only the fifth circle of hell as opposed the first) the flame in our hearts gets bigger.
(Photo by Kulanu, Inc.)

From JTA: For over 70 years, women suffering from a form of hearing loss called otosclerosis have been told having babies would make the condition worse. But hearing expert Dr. William Lippy has found no connection between hearing loss and the number of children a woman bears. Furthermore, Dr. Lippy has traced the “science” behind the “link” between pregnancy and progressive deafness as a ridiculous Nazi plot to eliminate otosclerosis from the gene pool.
Frightening to think modern medicine is still operating under myths inspired by monsters! What other commonly accepted wisdom could the Nazis be responsible for— “swimming immediately after lunch causes cramps” in order to eliminate Jews from from the town pool? (ooh, bad one…)

We were quite embarrassed to be contacted by IsraelInsider.com for using their map of the British Mandate in last week’s blog post about the 1917 Balfour Agreement. According to A Blogger’s Code of Ethics at CyberJournalist.net, bloggers should “admit mistakes and correct them promptly” so we were all ready to eat crow until we discovered we did not, in fact, lift the map from IsraelInsider’s “Israel’s Story In Maps”, an awesome collection of high-resolution maps charting the history of the Jewish people.
No, we screwed up even worse than that: We got it from FocusOnJerusalem, an online Christian ministry touting the return of their Savior. Ooops.
So from now on, we promise to credit our photo sources (and not just ’cause we’re afraid of getting caught; it’s the right thing to do.) We also promise to use Jewish sources whenever possible. And next time we need a map, we’ll pay for the good stuff rather rely on schlock graphics.

(“Eat Crow” image from Pete-Online.us. See, it’s easy.)

We can’t decide if this article from Ynet News is the most chauvinistic tripe we’ve ever come across or if it’s a sarcastic take on Jewish female stereotypes. The writer is Israeli, y’know, so could be both.

If you support her financially and maintain an esthetic appearance, she will hold back most of her evil nature. Jewish princesses are practical, and their evil has a certain logic.

Yes, but vengeful as hell. Watch out, beeotch.

(You may remember Amanda Peet, pictured here, as the most psychotic girlfriend ever in Saving Silverman. Would you rescue your best friend from a woman like this?)