Benyamin's Blog
I’m going to try out a new feature here on the blog -- a roundup of off-beat and quirky religious news stories from around the web. Here’s the first installment. Let me know what you think.
- Latke Latte: Is there a Starbucks Chanukah blend or is it just a sad, sad, hoax?
- Book him: James Frey, the disgraced author that duped Oprah and the literary world, is taking a stab at channeling God. His next book, as reported by London’s Guardian newspaper, will be a third book of the Bible in which Jesus performs gay marriages and lives with a prostitute. “[It’s] my idea of what the Messiah would be like if he were walking the
streets of New York today,” says Frey. “What would he believe? What would he preach?
How would he live? With who?”
- Turn right at the reindeer: Afraid someone may nab that precious baby Jesus nestled in the snow on your front yard? No worries ... protect baby Jesus with GPS and webcams.
- Nazi nuggets: A New Jersey father was denied a birthday cake with his 3-year-old child’s full name on it by a local supermarket. The kid’s name? Adolf Hitler Campbell. And his little sister’s name is JoyceLynn Aryan Nation Campbell. Seriously.
The Jewish Community Center is Philadelphia for the last 5 years has a “Latkepalooza.” Restaurants of all different types around the city are invited to prepare and serve their version of a latke. There have been Chinese, Thai, Spanish, Mexican and Greek restaurants participating.