As a Jew, I of course treasure this video of Texas Governor
Rick Perry, dancing at Chanukkah with Orthodox Rabbis:
Although my favorite part is this: when I looked for this video
on Youtube, it was listed as “Rick Perry Dancing With Rabies.”
Eric Cantor, the House majority leader, recently lost his bid for
re-election, and there’s now the distinct possibility of the
Republicans having no Jewish representation in Congress for the
first time in over 50 years, although there are currently 30
Democratic Jewish congresspeople. Beverly Goldstein, a Republican
donor from Beechwood, Ohio, bemoaned this state of affairs
after a meeting of the Republican Jewish coalition in Washington,
telling the New York Times, “Sometimes a Jewish person just
wants to be able to go to Congress and speak with a Jewish person.”
Overheard during such conversations:
“What is it with Boehner and the tanning? He looks like my
Aunt Marjorie, in Boca. And she’s a smoker.”
“Hillary? What kind of a name is that? Why doesn’t she
just call herself Shelley the Shiksa?”
“When people attack Sarah Palin, just because she’s an idiot,
do you know what I tell them? She’s still a very pretty girl.”
“I think we need a Jewish Tea Party. We could name it
Coffee Talk.”
“Call me crazy, but Hobby Lobby is the most gentile-sounding
business I’ve ever heard of. Why didn’t they just call
it Goys’R’Us?”
“Why can’t George Clooney marry a Jewish girl, just to help
the situation in the Middle East? Would it kill him?”
“Why does he have to be named Chris Christie? Why?”
