Al Franken’s ability to draw a map of all 48 contiguous states in under 2 minutes (that means no Hawaii and Alaska) was what really put him ahead of Norm Coleman and into the Minnesota Senate seat! Watch him do it on Late Night with David Letterman, 8/20/87.

NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg lit the world’s largest menorah last night on 5th Avenue between the Plaza and the Pierre Hotels. This is no Chabad cardboard creation, but a 32-foot high, gold colored, 4,000 pound steel structure that will be lighted nightly with genuine oil lamps. Specially designed glass chimneys will protect the Chanukah lights from the Central Park winds.

The first lighting of the menorah will be dedicated to a Brooklyn rabbi and his wife. The couple was killed during the terrorist attacks in Mumbai last month.

“The lighting of the World’s largest Chanukah Menorah takes on a special meaning this year,” said Rabbi Shmuel Butman, director of the Lubavitch Youth Organization, who will light the Menorah nightly together with special dignitaries, “as the Menorah joins the ‘unite to light’ campaign in memory of the terror victims in Mumbai.”

Grab Your Yarmulke and Have a Killer Hanukkah with Weird Al Yankovic’s Pretty Fly for a Rabbi after the Jump>>> Continue »

Jeremy Piven has been whining all over town because his Blackberry erased his Barack Obama voicemail and now he doesn’t have the almost Prez’s digits.

I was lucky to stump for Barack in Indiana and to introduce him in Chicago. Barack left me five numbers.” he tells Extra. “It was the greatest voicemail that I’ve gotten in my life by the way… I saved it and I went back to listen to it and my BlackBerry had erased all of Barack Obama’s phone numbers. Then when I called back to try to tell them, ‘Can I get Barack’s number? He left it for me.’ They didn’t believe me and I now have nothing and I’ve been trying to find him.

I hate to break Jeremy’s heart, but the truth is Barak never called him.  It was me and my trusty voice changing software that left a message on Piven’s voicemail.  I used to sleep with his agent’s scheduler:) so it was easy peasy to get his digits.    Anyway, Jeremy did you really think just because you play Rahm Emanuel’s brother, Ari, on tv, that you are in the Obama Inner Circle?  I mean come on, it’s not like your Oprah!

Can you imagine how they would be carrying on if Blagojevich was a Blagowitz?  Close call.

“I’ve got this thing and it’s (expletive) golden, and I’m just not giving it up for (expletive) nothing. I’m not gonna do it,” Democratic Gov. Blagojevich says in a conversation intercepted by the FBI.

“I want to make money,” he declares, according to court papers.

Ahh the Jewish mother - so much to say and I’m thinking of making it a regular new feature.  Yes, the below is one of the chain emails that my mother sent and well it reminds me of my Bubbie, who I’m off to see tomorrow (wish me luck, especially since I didn’t manage to score a fiance in the past week).

Jack Black sings the words of our Lord as only Jesus could do and reminds us that our nation was built on “separation of church and state.” Overturn Prop 8 and SAVE THE ECONOMY. Newly married gays will save the auto industry as they celebrate their love with a new car for their gay (used here in the old fashion happy, good times way) days in the country.

If you’re looking for courage to finally tell your spouse it’s over or maybe you’re just bored, then check out the Divorce Calculator.  Go calculate your odds of living the deBeers dream of forever and when your armed with the cold hard statistics based on census data, go stand in front of that 52″ flat screen tv and demand your fair share.

Today I have discovered my favorite Facebook group other than Jewssip —the  Jewish Stoners Union.  This group uses Gematria - assigning numerical values to letters ie A = 1, B = 2 - to unlock the mysterious origins of 420.  Surprisingly the police radio code, California penal code and even Jim Morrison’s death are simply pothead urban legends that have nothing to do with 420. Thanks to the  Jewish Stoners Union we now have the answer…

The word for smoke in Hebrew is Ashan (Ayin Shin Nun). Ayin is 70, Shin is 300, and Nun is 50. 70 + 300 + 50 = 420!!

I wonder if Madonna and A-Rod used gematria (Kabbalah is all about it) to decide to only look for a love nest between Fifth and Park, from 60th Street through the 80s.

This wasn’t aired last Saturday night, but it’s sure f**king funny.

Check out Charlie Rose and his interview with all 3 Emanuel Brothers - eldest brother Ezekiel, a top oncologist, who has solved our healthcare crisis in his book, “Healthcare Guaranteed”, Rahm and baby bro Ari, who is all hustle and flow. Continue »

I can hardly wait - only 8 hours until Diane Sawyer’s interview with Ashley Dupre, the lady of the night who brought down New York Governor Elliot Spitzer.  Sure Bill Clinton had his own little sex scandal, but damn that was for free.  Elliot was breaking all kinds of laws by paying for his bootie.   While Spitzer’s penis ruined his political career, it wasn’t as titillating as say, the Profumo Case.

Not familiar with British sex scandals, well let Jewssip take you back to 1963, when Harold MacMillan was the Prime Minister of England and John Profumo was Secretary of State for War. Well, Profumo had an affair with topless showgirl, Christine Keeler, who also happened to carrying on with a Soviet naval attache, which in the height of the Cold War turned this rendez-vous into a sex scandal of epic proportions with hints of espionage.  The allegations led to Profumo resigning and helped bring about the downfall of Harold Macmillan’s government.

Like Ashley, Christine Keeler entered the media spotlight.  However, the real winner of the scandal was Arne Jacobsen, a Jewish Danish architect and designer, whose Number 7 chair propelled to stardom when Christine Keeler straddled it naked in the iconic portrait by Lewis Morley.  Hmmm, how will the Spitzer Affair be remembered in history? Hopefully, not for the Ikea bookshelf in the 20/20 pic above.