So apparently this is news to me. With the upcoming release of the new Superman flick the “internets” are buzzing with the debate on Clark Kent’s religious background. Check this out:

“From the very beginning, the Superman mythos reflected his creators’ Jewish backgrounds,” Simcha Weinstein, “the Comic Book Rabbi,” wrote on his Web site, rabbisimcha.com.

“Superman and his nebbish alter ego, Clark Kent, are now recognized, in retrospect, as a complex symbol of immigrant identity and assimilation, the embodiment of the American Dream, as imagined by two second-generation Jewish kids.”

Not so, counters Stephen Skelton, author of the new book “The Gospel According to the World’s Greatest Superhero.”

Skelton acknowledges that the character, like Jesus, had Jewish roots, but he argues that the Man of Steel really is a “Christ” figure.

Read the rest and leave your 2 cents, what other superheroes are possibly Jewish?

Charlotte Knobloch, the Holocaust survivor who was elected the first woman president of Germany’s Central Council of Jews (mentioned yesterday) is officially giving Iranian leader President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad a piece of her mind. According to Nobel peace laureate Eli Wiesel, Mr. Ahmadinejad is “the world’s number one Holocaust denier” who is now planning a possible upcoming visit to Germany to watch the World Cup.

But Charlotte aint’ havin it.

How can this fool deny such a horrible act of genocide? Charlotte is a living testament to that fact that it did occur and that we will never forget it! She’s not going to let some idiot run around her country and be greeted with rose petals and a red carpets. Head of state or not, I’m glad Charlotte Knobloch is speaking out against Ahmadinejab’s ignorance (or to some, his mean spirit).

Read the full story here.

Photo: c/o spiegel.de

It’s incredible the kind of stuff you find when you float around for a bit in this ever expanding blogosphere. I stumbled across a massive collection of colorful words, some directed at Jews in particular. The fellows who said the following quotes need to take a serious chill pill:

“With all due respect to those dear people, my friend, God Almighty does not hear the prayer of a Jew.”
–Bailey Smith, a founding father of Robertson’s Christian Coalition, once told 15,000 people at a Religious Roundtable briefing in Dallas, June 26, 1994

“The Jews are returning to their land of unbelief. They are spiritually blind and desperately in need of their Messiah and Savior.”
–Jerry Falwell, Listen, America!

“If he’s going to be the counterfeit of Christ, he has to be Jewish. The only thing we know is he must be male and Jewish.”
–Jerry Falwell commenting on the anti-Christ, January 1999

“The god of Judaism is the devil. The Jew will not be recognized by God as one of His chosen people until he abandons his demonic religion and returns to the faith of his fathers–the faith which embraces Jesus Christ and His Gospel. ”
–David Chilton, The Days of Vengeance: An Exposition of the Book of Revelation (Ft. Worth, TX: Dominion Press, 1984), p. 127

Incredible! Last time I checked Jesus (or Yeshuah) of Nazareth was celebrating Passover, teaching at the Temple, keeping Kosher, reading Torah, and more. These fools either lost a few screws or missed the last train into town. The next time you encounter one of these wackos send them over to JesusIsAJew.org where they’ll find a detailed rundown of their beloved Jewish messiah.