Darkly it [the Kabbalah] stood in their [Samuel David Luzzatto, Moritz Steinschneide, etc.] path, the ally of forces and tendencies in whose rejection pride was taken by a Jewry which, in Steinschneider’s words, regarded it as its chief task to make a decent exit from the world.

Also, one venue may as well be a commercial for Axe body spray, complete with gyrating young females and the bow chicka wow wow slogan featuring prominently.

Now, I'm cream-crackered! I'm for the Budew Drop Inn and some sleep.

In a tiresome bid to create controversy (read: free publicity), rocker Marilyn Manson, who has dubbed himself the Antichrist Superstar, has signed to play Jesus in Diamond Dead, a dark comedy by the master of cheesily creepoid horror movies, George Romero.