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Saaphyri may not have been chosen by Flavor Flav, but she is one of the “chosen people.”

The “Lip Chap” selling, PMS blaming, Obama supporting, fighting hothead from VH1’s Flavor of Love recently discovered that she’s Jewish.

Her name, she tells Dr. Blogstein’s Radio Happy Hour in an interview that begins at approximately the 43 minute mark, stems from the Kabbalah, Jewish mysticism.

That led to this exchange, approximately 57:20 into the show:

Dr. Blogstein: From the Kabbalah!  Do you know today is Rosh Hashanah?  Happy New Year, Saaphyri!
Saaphyri: You said it’s Russian what?
Dr. Blogstein: It’s Rosh Hashanah. It’s Rosh Hashanah.
(laughing)
Saaphyri: Oh, that’s a Jewish holiday.
Dr. Blogstein: That’s right!  And you know, Kabbalah, yeah, Kabbalah’s Jewish!  You know that?
Saaphyri: I’m Jewish!
Dr. Blogstein:   No, you’re not!
Saaphyri: Yes I am!
Dr. Blogstein:  You’re Jewish?!?
Saaphyri:  I just found out like last year.

She goes on to explain that her grandmother was Jewish, thus making her Jewish.

Then, at the 1:00:14 mark, she’ll speak Hebrew!

(please stick with this one–its long, but real good!)

Since The Radio Happy Hour aired this past Tuesday on BlogTalkRadio, I’ve been getting a lot feedback regarding what happened approximately 53 minutes into the show. (Click here and scroll over until the player reads 53:00)

At that point in the show, our guest, Psychic Boy, a self-professed medium who can communicate with the dead, is discussing what the spirit world says about Adolf Hitler. He begins his thought by asking the question: “Adolf Hitler: a jerk or an evolved soul?“

Psychic Boy then goes onto explain that if Hitler had been “given the task of shaking up the planet at that particular time” that “only an evolved soul would have signed up for that.” He backs that theory up by siting “old biblical teachings” that claim there was a curse upon the Jewish people that states that after the “mass exodus” (which I assume he refers to the exodus from the desert which we ironically commemorate during Passover starting tomorrow) that there would have to be a “mass sacrifice.”

I called the theory “horrible” and his spirit guide “anti-semitic” and Witchy Woman (Psychic Boy’s wife who was also on the show) disagreed with the assertion as well. Psychic Boy made it clear the he does not believe the theory either, though he claims his “spirit-guide” can not an anti-Semite but also not a liar, only that the spirit guide says that the above mentioned “old biblical teaching” claiming that the bible says that God will leave the Jews from exodus but the price they’d have to pay later on for that was to have, as Psychic Boy put it, “six-million, or whatever, number it was, leave the planet at the same time” was the reasoning behind the Holocaust “on this planet.”

I dismissed that statement with a joke (a funny one, but still an avoidance of the issue.) Many claim that I should have held Psychic Boy to task for mentioning and even entertaining that theory. At this point, I agree with that feedback.

At the time, what he was saying sounded suspect to me but I didn’t have the knowledge of the Old or New Testament to discredit him. That shouldn’t have stopped me from challenging him.

After my research into the matter, I wish I had. According to what I’ve been able to conclude, through online investigation and direct questioning of clergy and theologians, there is no passage in Scripture, either Old or New Testament, that asserts any such thing.

One pastor who followed up with me through email said the following:

“In my theological opinion, your psychic may communicate with spirits. The New Agers call it channeling. (Contrary to many people’s opinion, New Agers may or may not be Christian. Many New Agers are simply the latest version of Gnosticism mixed with the occult) Most theologians would term it some type of demon possession, or obsession, and there are passages in the N.T. that speak of ‘doctrines of demons.’ The psychic, in my opinion (and I am not an expert in demonology), is being misled, misguided and used as a pawn — if he really is communicating with spirits. Or he’s a charlatan.

The available literature on the subject is voluminous.

My estimation of his statements: arrantly anti-semitic, fascist and racist. He may not subscribe to anti-semitism himself, but his words certainly foment it.“

I will not go as far as to call Psychic-Boy an anti-Semite. At worst, he’s been grossly misinformed by whatever church or branch of Christianity he believes in. But I will say that the theory he proposes is anti-Semitic and dangerous.

Assigning a Biblical reason behind the genocide of six-million Jews and hypothesizing that Hitler may have been “an evolved soul” is insulting to not only my grandparents who suffered first hand in concentration camps and everyone else who was personally touched by the Holocaust but also to everyone who believes in the Old and New Testament that was irresponsibly misquoted.

By clearing this up, I hope to do my tiny part in keeping the memory alive for all that lived through the Holocaust in hopes that nothing like that ever happens again.

I invite Psychic-Boy to stop by and apologize or retract his comments.

UPDATE: 4/5/06 Psychic Boy and Witchy Woman discussed this controversy last night on their show Laughing Through the Veil (click link to hear.)

If you ask me, they made matters worse. Much worse.

But then again, none of us are as enlightened as they are so there is no way we could ever understand.

James Cameron, the famed director of such hits as The Terminator, Aliens, Titanic and, of course, Aquaman, has found Jesus.

No, not in the born-again wacky way, he actually found Jesus’ body.

This weekend in a Discovery Channel special called The Lost Tomb of Jesus, Cameron and Israeli filmmaker Simcha Jacobovici put forth a case that the tomb of Jesus Christ and his family has been unearthed.

The film focuses on ossuaries — bone boxes — found in a tomb dug up during construction of an apartment building in Jerusalem in 1980.

Inscriptions on the boxes say Yeshua bar Yosef (Jesus, son of Joseph), Maria (Mary), Yose (Joseph), Matia (Matthew), Mariamene e Mara (Maria the Master) and Yehuda bar Yeshua (Judah, son of Jesus), the Washington Post reported. Filmmakers maintain that “Mariamene e Mara” could be Mary Magdalene and that Yehuda bar Yeshua could be her son by Jesus.

Who knows how accurate the film’s claims are? But then again, who knows how accurate the bible’s claims are? Either way, if what is uncovered in The Lost Tomb of Jesus is true and Jesus’ bones were in that box, well then, Jesus did not ascend to the heavens in full body after all. Therefore, he was nothing but am ordinary carpenter (which is still significant as I challenge any of you to find a Jewish carpenter since.) And, if Jesus was just an ordinary carpenter and not the son of God, well then, I guess James Cameron just increased the Jewish population by a billion percent!

But, consider this: Say the only part of the story the New Testament got wrong was Jesus’ whole resurrection and full bodied trip to heaven but he was still really the son of God. That would mean that now that we have Jesus Christ’s bones, we can get God’s DNA! We can clone God!

This is gonna be bigger than Titanic!!!

I’m posting this simply because I get a thrill out of out-scooping Greta Van Susteran. Oh, and because its unbelievably hilarious.

This courtesy of TMZ.com:

“TMZ obtained video of the former Playboy Playmate doing her own sexed-up interpretation of the hora, after she wandered into the Bar Mitzvah of Evan Weiss in 1997. According to Weiss, Smith was hanging out at the Beverly Hills Hotel one Saturday night in 1997, when she ran into a few female guests from his party. “

Tonight airs the final episode of The O.C., a program that writers and producers put so much of themselves into the first season, they had nothing left to give after that.

Seasons 2 through whatever they’re up to (I stopped watching when the rest of America did) now fall into the same category as Rocky V, The Golden Palace and Lex Luthor’s interview with “Father Felony”: Parts of the story we pretend never happened otherwise it ruins everything thing that happened before it.

From the beginning, The O.C. had all the ingredients necessary to get me interested in a program: hot girls. But getting me drawn in was only half the battle. The first season was intelligent, quirky and heart warming. There was also a great big fight and/or disaster in every episode that usually interrupted and/or ruined the most glamorous of social events.

But that first season was far more than just a network TV drama. It was a vehicle for social change. It made Jews cool and geeks chic. It showed us that the wealthy are just as screwed up as the poor. It introduced us to Chrismukkah, the ultimate melting-pot holiday that began on The O.C. and eventually was listed in Time Magazine as one of the “buzzwords” of 2004.

But above all, The O.C. brought attention to deaf rights and the importance of closed-captioning. Never in the history of television has there been an actor like Adam Brody (Seth Cohen). The guy, for as witty and goofy as he is, has a severe mumbling problem and a knack for swallowing his punch lines. Countless times I was forced to rewind and put on my closed captioning to figure out what the hell he was saying. This taught me the perils of what it must like to be deaf and really made me appreciate their hardships.

While most of us said goodbye to The O.C. a few years ago, tonight is the official farewell. I will not be watching so if anyone does, please let me know what happened. Actually, on second thought, I don’t care.