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Tuesday, December 18, 2001

One small leap for Jewish porn: Hey, I don't knock Playboy magazine too much, not that I have read it since I was a kid (what kind of a moral statement that reflects, I have no idea), but for a Playmate to revel in her Jewish identity in its pages (including her bar mitzvah picture next to her breast measurement listing) is too much for even me to take. New York Magazine writes that Miss November is Playboy's first self-proclaimed, synagogue-going Jew:
So she knew that sooner or later she'd have to talk to her rabbi in the Reform synagogue in the small Pennsylvania town where she grew up and still goes to services. The chat went better than expected. "He said there's nothing wrong with what I did. He was more intrigued than anything. He was like, 'How did the nice little Jewish girl I've known since she was a baby grow up to be like this?' "