• Twitter Book Club alum Doreen Carvajal discovers Spain’s offer of citizenship to Sephardic Jews is not as easily attainable as it seemed. [NYT]

• Some ideas for what to do with your leftover potatoes post-Hanukkah. [Times of Israel]

• What happens when you go to www.ThirdReich.com? You reach the website of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. [NYT]

• “If anything happened to Mandy Patinkin on Homeland, it would be like the Yankees trading Derek Jeter to the Jets.” [Grantland]

• Kosher-keeping New York Knick Amar’e Stoudemire married his longtime girlfriend after manning the phones at the Dec. 12 Hurricane Sandy fundraiser. [NYP]

• Sacha Baron Cohen won a lifetime achievement award at the British Comedy Awards, and, naturally, Ali G accepted. [Splitsider]

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• This is kind of awkward, but Lebanon wants to sue Homeland for its depiction of the country.

• Over at Vulture, Jewcy contributor Jesse David Fox poses some absurd plot lines for Homeland’s Brody. Our favorite is the one where he plants a recording device in Saul’s beard.

• What we can learn from George Costanza about the pigeon code in New York City.

• Rashida Jones, Jewcy’s patron saint, talks women writers in Hollywood.

• Amare Stoudemire, the Hebrew-studying New York Knick, gets ready for the season.

• Jerusalem, meet Gangnam style. It was bound to happen sooner or later, really:

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• Meet Rita Jahanforuz, the Jewish, Iranian-born pop star who’s a hit in both Israel and Iran.

• Mazel alert: Amare Stoudemire is engaged.

• The traumatizing tale of the Jewish girl and the ocean.

• It’s official: digital shorts king Andy Samberg is leaving Saturday Night Live.

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• #VeryJewishOscars was actually a hashtag last evening,  Natalie Portman won for best actress, Aaron Sorkin won for being a great writer; Eli Wallach and Kirk Douglas made appearances, Steven Spielberg presented the final award and a bunch of other Jews showed up to movies biggest night.

• Bernie Madoff just wants a little bit of sympathy: ““How could I have done this?” he asks. “I was making a lot of money. I didn’t need the money. [Am I] a flawed character?” (Via New York Magazine)

• Mubarak can’t leave Egypt.

• They love their Jewish food in Alabama.

• A Hasidic rabbi urges his students to give up contact lenses.   Up next: Amar’e Stoudemire style sport goggles.

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