Keith Olberman gives his take on Peres and Bush’s Hava Nagilah moment (or, if you can’t stand the guy, some raw footage below) …

Our favorite Chabadnik in New Hampshire is Republican state lawmaker and Huckabee supporter Jason Bedrick (here and here).

But by the time the polls close Tuesday night, for campaign workers and volunteers the most popular Lubavitcher might be Rabbi Levi Krinsky.

Free kosher eats!

JTA staff writer Ben Harris looking dapper in his winter gear.

For the second year in a row, JTA’s Ben Harris and Jacob Berkman spent Christmas Eve hitting a bunch of Jewish-themed parties throughout Manhattan. Here’’s their take on this year’s festivities:

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No Mike Huckabee-Chinese restaurant sightings, but we stand by our claim earlier this week that the self-described “Christian Leader” is a Marrano.

And while we’re on the topic of Chinese Food on Christmas:

Here are two keepers: a preview of Adam Sandler’s upcoming flick about a top Israeli commando who wants to become a hairdresser and British pop singer Lauren Rose performing her version of Hava Nagila, which is climbing to the top of the charts in England:

UPDATE: JTA’s resident music buff, Jacob Berkman (that’ll get fellow writer Ben Harris steamed), says Rosen is simply ripping off this guy’s holiday-timed Hava Nagila from two years ago.

Here’s a message and video link from Y-Love, the self-described Hiphop activist:

I wanted to give you a heads up on a breakthrough Jewish music video which hit YouTube last night. DJ Handler and Shemspeed.com arranged a musical mashup in front of 1,200 fans at Irving Plaza last night never before seen - the Idan Raichel Project with special guests, Matisyahu and Y-Love.

What is Shemspeed? Mordy Shinefield, the Forward’s music columnist, explains. Here’s the Web site’s account of the big night:

Idan Raichel and dj handler are all set to perform at Irving Plaza when Shemspeed’s good friends Matisyahu and Y-Love let us know they are coming through. We suggest that all of them do a song together. Everyone is psyched and the second they hit the stage it is like a bomb of excitement went off with the sold out thousand+ crowd! Here is what went down!

My standard joke on Larry King is that he could have Adolf Hitler on for two hours and the Holocaust would not come up. But Jerry Seinfeld may have outdone me…

All that said, maybe Jerry needs to lighten up.

Laura Kaufman, the voice of ‘Obama Girl,’ gets all Jewey in her takedown of Ann Coulter.

Nearly a decade ago, back in my days at the Jewish Exponent in Philadelphia, a co-worker and I were working late. His phone rang and he picked up.

The caller was screaming. My fellow editor kept saying, “Yes, Mr. Bishop. Sorry, Mr. Bishop.”

Yes, it was the Joey Bishop.

If memory serves (the Web is of no help on this one) we had published a letter from a reader who was upset that the Rat Packer — who died last week in Newport Beach, Cali., at 89 — didn’t stick with his given name: Joseph Abraham Gottlieb. The letter-writer suggested that Bishop must have been embarrassed by his Jewish roots.

The hell he was, Bishop let my fellow editor know. (And, I should add, he had no problem exposing Johnny Carson as a Midwestern Morano).

So, one last time: Sorry, Mr. Bishop.

Check out Israeli President Shimon Peres getting an earful from David Lynch. Now Peres knows how the Arabs and right-wing Jews felt listening to all his talk in the 1990s about a new Middle East …

Both my wife and mother were quick to weigh in with a big thumbs up for the New Yorker’s Larry Craig-inspired Ahmadinejad-at-Columbia cover.

What strikes me is that the image seems to suggest genuine surprise or confusion on Ahmadinejad’s part when confronted with a real-life example of homosexuality. Compare that approach to the infinitely less nuanced, childish and equally, if not more, funny approach of Saturday Night Live.

In short…

New Yorker: Ahmadinejad has no gay-dar.

SNL: Ahmadinejad needs to come out of the closet.