Jewish Menace Infests Soho: Why?
High on the list of email subject lines that make us very nervous — up there with "I got the test results back" and "Mediabistro invites you to an EXCLUSIVE cocktail party!" — is one that arrived in our inbox early this afternoon: "What's with all the Jews?" (As we understand it, that was a popular forward in the Weimar Republic.) As it happens, though, today's correspondent was actually posing an interesting question:
From: [not actually a Nazi]
To: tips@gawker.com
Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2006 2:33 PM
Subject: What's with all the Jews?
Question —
About 3 hours ago, there was a line of at least 50 RVs emblazoned with identical posters with the word "Mitzvah" at the top cruising by my office at Broadway and Houston.
Now a continuous stream of vaguely Sephardic-sounding music is emminating from somewhere, currently it's Hava Nagila-ish, but it changes ...
WHY? Is this even Gawker territory? I just want to know why.
We're guessing those are the Chabad Mitzvah Tanks, and, being that the question concerns both Lower Manhattan and Jews, of course it's Gawker terroritory. But we have no idea why they're congregating today in Soho. Maybe it has something to do with the non-riots in Borough Park the other night? If you know anything or have any theories, let us know. We'd hate for the Gentiles to stop thinking we're the smart ones.