The Chosen Folk Get Their Own Falwell
Thanks to a young adulthood mired in the works of Woody Allen and Fran Leibowitz and continued appreciation for the work of Jon Stewart, I habitually expect Jewish people to be smarter, funnier, and wiser than everyone else.
But thanks to the moronic outbursts of Rabbi David Basri—who’s blamed Israel’s bird-flu outbreak on election ads promoting gay marriage—I am reminded that even a prominent Kabbalah scholar and sage can talk as much Godly bullshit as the stupidest Christian.
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If you've ever spent a Shabbos dinner listening to a couple of orthodox Jews argue whether a pint of Haagen Dazs sorbet was a sufficiently kosher dessert, given that it was made in the same factory as the Haagen Dazs ice-cream and, god forbid, possibly some tiny particle of the ice cream made its way into the sorbet vat, then you would know Jews can be as meshuggah as anyone.