- Gawker posted a speech prepared by the late William Safire for President Richard Nixon in the eventuality that astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin would have become stranded on the moon.
- A. O. Scott, film critic for The New York Times, riffs on this year’s abundance of Jewish-themed flicks, including Tarantino’s "Inglourious Basterds," the Coen brothers’ "A Serious Man" and Edward Zwick’s "Defiance."
- A photo of a bikini-clad Bar Refali sent by a cellular phone company to clients as part of an ad campaign enraged women’s rights group WIZO in Israel this week.
- Jewish comedian Jenny Slate, Saturday Night Live’s most recent addition, got in trouble this week when she accidentally used the f-word in a live sketch. Lenny Bruce would be effing proud.
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