Pope Benny XVI today exonerated the Jews in the death of Jesus Christ. Thanks, Benny!
Elan Steinberg, vice-president of the American Gathering of Holocaust Survivors and their Descendants, welcomed Benny’s words. “This is a major step forward. This is a personal repudiation of the theological underpinning of centuries of anti-Semitism,” he told Reuters.
The Pope made no mention of exonerating gentiles for Spam, Oscar Mayer and Velveeta.
German President Christian Wulff (center) and Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski (right) walk under the wrought-iron “Arbeit Macht Frei” (Work Makes You Free) gate at a memorial ceremony at Auschwitz I concentration camp in Oswiecim, Poland, marking the 66th anniversary of its liberation by Soviet Troops. Below, a survivor remembers.
Noted southpaw Sandy Koufax, elite member of the tiny club of renowned Jewish athletes, best remembered for pitching 4 no-hitters, being MVP 3 times, winning the Cy Young 3 times, and for not pitching on Yom Kippur in Game 1 of the 1965 World Series, is 75 years old today, kenahorrah.
In observance of Sandy Koufax’s 75th birthday, I won’t be blogging today.
Fun Fact: Sandy was married to artist/author Anne Heath Widmark, daughter of actor Richard Widmark. They divorced in 1982.
Prince Chuckeleh, a Prince among men in Wales, attended the opening of the Jewish Museum on Tuesday in London, as seen here with his royal punim in front of an antique bakery union banner, and that nice lady gave him a free cookie. Such a nice boy.
That reminds me… I once went to the Museum of Tolerance in L.A., but there was a ten-minute wait to get in, so I left.
Try the chicken. At least just taste it. You might like it. Taste it! Fine, don’t taste it.
Don’t you feel just like that on some Tuesday mornings? That’s Harry Houdini in his infamous water torture trick.
The Jewish Museum in NYC is running a Houdini exhibit through March. Here’s a quote from an online article about it:
Houdini—the world-famous magician and escape artist, consummate showman, American superhero, and anti-Spiritualist crusader—found the bright lure of the big stage greater than the austere pulpit of his father’s rabbinic profession. Houdini lived for only fifty-two years, but his significance as a Jew who made it into the mainstream, as a popular phenomenon who attracted huge crowds, and as a muse for artists working today is extraordinary.
Houdini was played by Tony Curtis in the biopic. He died on Halloween, 1926.
Here’s Harry in a clip from his early 1920′s reality show, “Keeping Up with the Weisses.”