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Who Wants to Be Israel’s Ambassador?

Like Donald Trump\’s \”The Apprentice,\” at the end of every episode of \”The Ambassador,\” the panel of judges kicks another contestant off the show. The winner will be rewarded with a yearlong job at Israel at Heart, a New York-based organization that promotes Israel\’s image.

Iceberg Sinks ‘Race’ Menches

Eleven teams. Thirty days. One-million dollars. Zero bagels. That is what 32-year-olds Avi Scheier and Joe Rashbaum tried to face as one of the teams on the sixth season of the around-the-world reality show \”The Amazing Race.\”

\”Race\” teams are given clues telling them where to go and what tasks they must perform. At the end of each episode, the last team to reach the \”pit stop\” is eliminated — the first team to cross the finish line at the end wins $1 million.

Reality Doesn’t Bite

Even though 20 million people saw Adam Mesh take the walk of shame and ride the lonely bus home on the final episode of the first season of "Average Joe, " post reality show breakup, Mesh seems to be picking up the pieces very well.

Krusty’s Adult Bar Mitzvah

Krusty the Clown never had a bar mitzvah. It\’s a startling confession \”Simpsons\” fans will hear this Sunday when the Springfield celebrity discovers he doesn\’t have a star on the town\’s Jewish Walk of Fame.

In the episode, \”Today, I Am a Clown,\” written by Joel H. Cohen, the sardonic Krusty turns to his Orthodox father, Rabbi Hyman Krustofsky (Jackie Mason), and Mr. T for help.

Payback Time

You\’ll never find \”The Cadillac,\” on any critic\’s list of top 10 \”Seinfeld\” episodes, but I don\’t care. \”The Cadillac,\”episode 124 in the Seinfeld oeuvre, IMHO (in my humble opinion, for those who don\’t use Internet shorthand), is the real thing, among the show\’s most authentically Jewish episodes, revealing the uncircumcised heart within a sitcom generally acknowledged to reflectonly callousness, narcissism and an urbane hipness in post-shtetl America. And, in a small way, \”The Cadillac\” changed my life.

Here\’s the plot of the show that ran February 8,1996 as a 60-minute \”Seinfeld\” special.

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