Chutzpah for Chutzpah?

From the West Australian:

An Israeli tourist tired of wolf whistles from road workers in New Zealand stripped off her clothes in a show of defiance, police say.

The woman was about to use an ATM in the main street of Kerikeri, in the far north of the country, when the men whistled, the New Zealand Press Association reported.

She calmly stripped off, then used the cash machine, before getting dressed and walking away.

The woman told police she did not take too kindly to the whistling from the men repairing the road.

"She said she had thought 'bugger them, I'll show them what I've got'," Police Sergeant Peter Masters told NZPA.

"She gave the explanation that she had been ... pestered by New Zealand men. She's not an unattractive looking lady," Masters said. "She was taken back to the police station and spoken to and told that was inappropriate in New Zealand."

Would this be appropriate in Israel, then? What do the locals do if someone grabasses them on Beb Yehuda - perform a pole dance routine?

Not sure how I feel about this meshuggeneh woman. I'm all for giving the finger - or picking one's nose - in response to catcalls and wolfwhistles, but isn't giving stupid horny men what they actually wanted (and never dreamed they were gonna get) only going to encourage them?

Totally Gratuitous 7-minute Vid of Hot Israeli Models

Lots of super sexy Semites of both genders to satiate your eye candy appetite. Silly and superficial, I know, but I just looked at the last couple of posts and I've had enough of nebbishy old men.

By My Bedside

You're probably thinking from the title that this is another sex toy post, but I'm talking about books, guttermuffin. It's Jewish Book Month, peeps!

While I've yet to read any of the following new publications, but I promise longer reviews if the author's publicists do their job and send me free copies:

J. weekly reporter Rachel Sarah has finally given birth to her memoir, Single Mom Seeking: Playdates, Blind Dates and Other Dispatches from the Dating World, and I'm damn excited about it. Rachel is preternaturally prolific for a motherwriter with her j. columns, her blog, her other postings all over the Web and now this book. Plus, she's one hot mama. Any Jewish single dads need reading material?

For those of us who prefer more pictures on the page, The Adventures of Rabbi Harvey by Steve Sheinkin promises to be a standout in the Jewish Western graphic novel genre. Told in comic strip format and deadpan one-liners, Rabbi Harvey tames the Wild West with Talmudic wisdom and lovingkindness. It's appropriate for all ages, and is available with a teacher's guide.

Then there's Jonny Geller's Yes, But Is It Good For The Jews?, a tongue-in-cheek tour of Jewish history and culture using a cockamamie mathematical formula called "Judology." Being only a basic bank-balancing math person myself, I'll have to do some studying to catch up. But like I trust the ancient rabbis to interpret for me, I'll take Geller's word that Prince Harry is not good for the Jews.

And while I never thought organ donation could be romantic, it looks like Joan Saltzman may change all that. Her book, Mr. Right and My Left Kidney, chronicles her path to late-in-life love and the sacrifice she made to keep it alive. Talk about being a "giver" in a relationship!

This week's feature on Jewish books from the j. proves I won't be the only one with a huge stack next to the bed this winter. Sorry, El Yenta Man � no time for nookie, it's bookworm season!

British Women Think David Schwimmer Is One Sexy Jew

...which elicited a sonorous "Ewwww!" from all the single women in the j. newsroom.

Rachel F. was particularly upset: "I don't care how nice he is! He's just not cute."

He's never done much for me, either � he always seems so needy, like the kind of guy who asks if his hair looks okay twenty times before he can go get a cup of coffee and who has more shoes than you � but compared to the rest of the guys on the list of Jewish celebs that British Jews would most like to date (with the exception of Sacha Baron Cohen), he's a sexpot. Woody Allen?? Paul Kaye?? Yo, ladies across the pond, what are you putting in your tea?

At least the men voted for some hotties, including Rachel Stevens and Caprice Bourret. And it's fabulous that Jewish mothers Gwyneth Paltrow and Rachel Weisz are objects of British male affection, but really fellows, they are married.

Hell, If It Weren't for the Stretchmarks, I'd Consider It

Cindy Margolis, the self-proclaimed "Most Downloaded Woman On the Internet" (I'm sure her mother is very proud), has announced her latest gig: posing nude in Playboy at the age of 40.

Whereas displaying her wares in the glossy men's magazine "would have been for gratuitous reasons" in the past, now is the perfect time for Cindy to get nakey: "It will be fun to go up against the 20-year-olds and show them that they don't have anything on me," she said.

She adds: "You're not dead just because you are married and have children." Huzzah, sista.

Now, I'm not a fan of nudie mags or of Cindy's (as I am unclear as to what her actual talents are � celebrity poker and cooking shows aside) but I like her spunk. There aren't many models (would you believe there's a wikipedia entry for Jewish American models?) who can push their career past 21, and any woman with three kids who can work it for Playboy ought to be lauded.

Sure, it's all about airbrushing and good plastic surgery. That's right � Cindy wasn't always the blonde, tiny-nosed bombshell you see before you; she was once just another Jewish girl trying to stand out in L.A.

Personally, I think she was cuter before her nose job, although the eyebrow-scaping is definitely a good call.

Not-So-Nice Jewish Girl Raises Stud Farm

Actually, she's hiring, maybe some of you fellows want to submit a resume?

Former Hollywood madam and every Jewish mother's nightmare Heidi Fleiss has taken her pimpin' ways to the desert outside Vegas, where she is currently staffing an all-male brothel strictly for the ladies (which says something about feminism and the evolution of gender roles in this culture, but hell, I'm no social scientist.)

Not only that, but HBO will film a documentary early next year (which says something about this culture's thirst for perversion and cheap vicarious thrills, but hell, I don't even have cable.)

No, there's barely any Jewish connection here, since Fleiss herself admits to being raised in an "affluent, non-religious" home, but there's something about Heidi's gummy mug makes me want to root for her � girl, go rock the male whore biz! � because with all her money she still hasn't found the right periodontist. I mean, the woman's obviously found her niche in high-end sex trafficking and an all-boy whorehouse is a new sensation � maybe I'm a little bit proud a Jewish girl got there first.