Another great video from the good folks at Aish.com, “We’ve Gotta Live Together: Building unity through kindness:”

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By Fern Sidman

Chanukah was celebrated in grand style in the Sunshine State, as a veritable panoply of community leaders, an array of top tier Jewish performers and 13,000 people gathered for the 32nd annual South Florida Chanukah Festival. Sponsored by Chabad-Lubavitch of South Broward County, the event which was held on the 7th night of Chanukah, featured the very best in Jewish music, food and cultural traditions.

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From Aish.com, “The Hanukkah Story in 8 hit songs. A short medley of pop music parodies through the ages.” Enjoy:

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By Gary Gerofsky

This is a version of “Taxman” by the Beatles in honor of Henry Waxman’s attempt to classify Jewish supporters of Republicans “greedy” and wrong in speaking up for Israel’s survival — against Obama’s dictates and advice. See Barry Rubin’s article.

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The sign reads, “Delicious for Chanukak - Boneless Smoked Ham.” My grandmother would’ve been running around in circles screaming, “Oy, vey!” Maybe they could suggest some milk products to go with the ham. Found this on Facebook, and the comment accompanying the photo reads, “Dear Walmart, I think you are barking up the wrong tree. Love, The Jews:”

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The commentary is in French, but you’ll get the point. Enjoy the satire, Islam à la française — and if ya’ can’t take a joke, move to Iran and become one Ahmadinejad’s thought police:

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By Andrew L. Jaffee

Sir Isaac Newton — no slouch, inventor of calculus, discoverer of the basic principles of planetary orbital motion, a father of optics, who elucidated gravity — predicted the world will end in 2060. Correspondingly, consider the list of “10 Failed Doomsday Predictions.” Now consider that evidence has surfaced showing that the much-over-hyped Mayan “prediction” of the end of the world in 2012 may be off-target:

… A new critique, published as a chapter in the new textbook “Calendars and Years II: Astronomy and Time in the Ancient and Medieval World” (Oxbow Books, 2010), argues that the accepted conversions of dates from Mayan to the modern calendar may be off by as much as 50 or 100 years. That would throw the supposed and overhyped 2012 apocalypse off by decades and cast into doubt the dates of historical Mayan events. (The doomsday worries are based on the fact that the Mayan calendar ends in 2012, much as our year ends on Dec. 31.) …

Hmmm… I’m still not convinced that the Maya “predicted” anything for 2012. Rather, their civilization collapsed, their astronomers lost their jobs, and probably stopped calculating calendric events (maybe just simple dates) when they reached 2012.

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Watch this important video on out-of-the-ordinary illegal immigrants:

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By Andrew L. Jaffee

And now, for some comic relief: A bear — you know, the big, hairy animal type — broke into a California home and went straight for the premium stuff:

… Alsky says the animal appeared to have pushed aside vegetables in the couple’s fridge and gone straight for the two-pound box of [chocolate] sweets.

He says the bear also tried to open a bottle of champagne but was not successful.

Now that’s taste: chocolate and champagne…

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A suspicious looking character was caught on security video shoplifting at a Smith’s grocery store in Utah. Watching the tape, one can tell that he is good at what he does. He blended into the crowd of shoppers, was friendly, and seemed to know exactly where to go in the store to find what he was looking for. He grabbed the goods and then made a quiet and quick exit. The difference here? The shoplifter was a dog. From CNN:

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By Andrew L. Jaffee

Tomorrow is an important day for the U.S. as we’ll be choosing our next president. Yes, the stakes are high, but we need to have faith in our wondrous democratic system, artfully and presciently crafted by our great Founders. No matter who wins, we must respect the will of the electorate. We must all keep cool heads. Therefore I offer some comic relief; a chill pill; a reminder that humor is one of the highest human attributes. Meet the real Joe the Plumber:

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A judge in India has summoned two Hindu gods, Ram and Hanuman, to help resolve a property dispute. …

Talk about appealing to a higher power:

… Judge Singh sent out two notices to the deities, but they were returned as the addresses were found to be “incomplete”.

This prompted him to put out adverts in local newspapers summoning the gods.

“You failed to appear in court despite notices sent by a peon and later through registered post. You are herby directed to appear before the court personally”, Judge Singh’s notice said. …

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By Phyllis Chesler

In the midst of my unshakable preoccupation with Hell, I suddenly found myself flung back into the Garden of Earthly Delights, where for six full hours I experienced holiness right here on earth. Time stood still, time no longer existed: a small, sure sign of eternity.

Ambassadors from many universes all came together to celebrate a peaceable, celestial, wedding. I felt as if we were participating in an episode of Star Wars—except we were not actors and the gathering was both real and yet beyond reality. So many different kinds of people were there. Jews, Muslims, Christians, Buddhists, pagans, and atheists, feminists and traditionalists, leftists, and rightists, gay and straight, and people with no overriding view of the events of the day whatsoever.

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By Andrew L. Jaffee

Marxists of the world: you can get a lock of Che Guevara’s hair! Now you can wear your Che t-shirt AND attach a lock of his own hair to your dreadlock coif. Don’t be outdone by your Marxist comrades. Get out to organize and represent in style. Reframe the debate. Revisionize. Take it to the man. Raise class consciousness. Be the first to bid on a piece of communist, revolutionary history:

Strands of hair taken from the body of Ernesto Che Guevara by a former CIA officer involved in his death are being sold at an auction in the US.

They are part of a lot also including photos of Che Guevara’s dead body and fingerprints taken after he was killed in Bolivia 40 years ago. …

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By Andrew L. Jaffee

This is just precious:

The French magazine Paris Match touched up a photograph of President Nicolas Sarkozy on his US holiday, making his figure more svelte.

Leading news weekly L’Express printed before and after shots, showing a distinct tightening of the area it called poignees d’amour (love handles).

L’Express quotes Paris Match as saying the president’s seating position made the bulge look more prominent.

Paris Match said it had tried adjusting the lighting on the picture.

“The correction was exaggerated during the printing process,” the magazine told L’Express. …

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