We’re kind of obsessed with Lil Dicky, the cheeky young rapper whose very public goal is to represent the “upper-middle class on his frail, Jewish shoulders.”

His newest music video, for “Jewish Flow,” is here, and it’s more provocative than anything we’ve seen from him so far. In it, the year is 1944 and Dicky’s got a rap battle to win—against Hitler. As the video opens, we see Dicky prepping himself backstage “Yo, Dicky,” an unseen friend prompts, “You sure you want to battle, dude? He’s been killin’ Jews.”

Superimposed onto very real Nazi rally footage, Dicky and Hitler walk through the saluting crowd before getting on stage. Then off Dicky goes, rapping into the face of the Nazi leader.

Wearing a “Fuck Hitler” t-shirt, Dicky raps that he’s got “that Auschwitz sick gas chamber kinda shit.” He’s also getting with German women, slinging sausage links, and dunking on Nazis in a pick-up game. It appears that Dicky is working through some identity issues, rather unsubtly.

Still, he’s not the first rapper to reference Hitler in a song. In Nas’ “Revolution Warfare,” rapper Lake posits that he’s “like a modern day Hitler.” And in 2Pac’s “Got My Mind Made Up,” Method Man raps that he’s “like Hitler, sticking up Jews with German Lugers.”

I asked Dicky about the video’s emphasis on Hitler and Nazi imagery. For him, it’s similar to how Kanye and other rappers reference slavery in their lyrics, he explained in an email. “You take a past social injustice (i.e. slavery, the Holocaust) and use it as a comparison point to highlight a current place of social prominence,” he wrote.

He gets why Jewish listeners might be offended by non-Jewish rappers bringing up Hitler, though he admits (not so shockingly) that he’s not easily offended:

In theory, people should probably stick to their own lane (I don’t think myself talking about slavery would be smart), but I personally don’t care what anyone else does in music. Self-expression is what it is, people should do what they want, as long as they’re willing to deal with consequences.

No consequences for Dicky yet, though: “Jewish Flow” has more than 50,000 YouTube views. What do you think of the video?

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It’s official: There will be a sequel to The Hebrew Hammer, and it’s going to be called Hammer vs. Hitler. Director Jonathan Kesselman announced they had raised enough money ($50,000) through the crowd-funding platform Jewcer.com to make a comedic sequel to the 2003 Jewish classic. Filming is expected to begin in May 2013, again starring Adam Goldberg as the Orthodox hero who saves Jewry from evil forces.

“It didn’t seem the sort of franchise where you wouldn’t want to see him take on one Jewish holiday after another,” Goldberg said in the press release. “You want to see him go after the big one. Who’s the Jewish Joker? Hitler.”

In Hammer vs Hitler, the audience will find a hipster Hebrew Hammer selling trees as a consultant for the Jewish Justice League. Bored and unhappy at his job, our protagonist ends up taking part in an epic mission to chase and kill Hitler on a journey filled with time travel and Jewish history.

“The ascendency of Mordechai Jefferson Carver, aka the Hebrew Hammer, was never intended to be told in one movie. Not even two. More like eighteen, but two is a good start,” Kesselman said. “Don’t worry, Hitler dies in the movie.”

For now though, the loyalty of his large, cult-like audience will be again tested by the amount of dollars they can donate to his ongoing fundraising campaign. Kesselman estimates that he can make the film for $1.5 million, and is hoping to raise $200,000 and keep it independent. In an equitable trade-off, the movie will “belong to the fans.”

Donors who contribute $1,500 will have the option of being an extra in the film, and a contribution of $5,000 is enough to be lifted bar mitzvah-style on a chair on the dance floor at the movie premiere. Kesselman has also asked fans to suggest who he should cast as Hitler.

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• Are slavery movies the new Holocaust flicks? Rachel Shukert thinks so. [Tablet]

• What Woody Allen’s character’s diction in Hannah and Her Sisters reveals about New Yorkers’ inability to pronounce the letter R. [Slate]

• See the couch where Hitler killed himself. Or don’t. [NY Daily News]

• Live like a Coen brother (Ethan) for only $2.34 million. [Curbed]

• A guy named Ira Isaacs is going to jail for four years for making a video in the style of the infamously obscene ‘Two Girls One Cup.’ [The Scroll]

• Lena Dunham and Jon Stewart commiserate over mean Internet things. [The Daily Show]

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• Gay parents on Israeli TV shows: so hot right now. [NYT]

• An Italian artist’s statue of Hitler praying, currently on display in the Warsaw Ghetto, has offended a whole bunch of people. [NY Daily News]

• Ariel Kaminer’s moving tribute to the late David Rakoff. [NYT]

• Alison Brie is Captain America. [BuzzFeed]

• Tel Aviv is going Wi-Fi, people [JTA]

• Adam Sandler and Judd Apatow were roommates:

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• Jerry Stiller played the role of Hitler in a high school play.

• A look at the new cookbook from two Jerusalem-born star chefs, helpfully called Jerusalem: A Cookbook.

• Dominique Strauss Kahn opens up about the lavish sex parties he regularly participated in. Gross.

• Jerry Seinfeld’s stand-up is comedic comfort food, says the New York Times.

• Orthodox rapper Shyne, who was deported in 2009 and therefore can’t vote in a U.S. election, endorsed Mitt Romney.

• Austrian skydiver Felix Baumgartner (is he? isn’t he?) jumped from space this weekend. What did you do?

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• Rachel Shukert says John Travolta’s alleged assertion, revealed by a masseur in a lawsuit against Travolta, that Hollywood is controlled by “homosexual Jewish men,” is rooted in paranoia fueled by insecurity.

• Visiting Germany in 1958, Groucho Marx did the Charleston on the bunker where Hitler committed suicide.

• Sean Penn plays Jewish gangster Mickey Cohen in the absurd-looking new movie, Gangster Squad. Also, Ryan Gosling!

• What happens after the tape stops rolling on NPR’s “Fresh Air:”

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• Fred Karger, the gay Jewish Republican presidential candidate, is a Top 10 Power Gay Republican.

• Rachel Shukert on the under-watched television show GCB: “as if Gilda Radner was starring in a Tennessee Williams play.”

• Etgar Keret, Shalom Auslander, and Dara Horn discuss Jewish fiction.

• Omg, our girl Shoshanna totally namechecks Camp Ramah on Sunday’s episode of Girls:

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• True story: Visa applications to Kazakhstan have increased since Sacha Baron Cohen’s 2006 Borat film.

• Sarah Silverman talks about prepping for her nude scene with Michelle Williams in their new film Take This Waltz.

• Jewish food festivals in the South are growing in popularity, and drawing a lot of visitors after church.

• Watch the Mile End team eat (and drink) their way through Russ & Daughters and Sammy’s Roumanian—though we could have done without the music.

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• Son of the Fonz Max Winkler is directing Steve Carell and New Girl’s Jake Johnson in a film about a small-town mafia.

• Behold, a dog fashion show.

• Yikes, here’s a look at former Real Housewife of New York Bethenny Frankel’s new novel.

• Jake Gyllenhaal will make his off-Broadway debut this summer in Nick Payne’s If There Is I Haven’t Found It Yet.

• The Obamas author Jodi Kantor will be discussing the first couple with New York Times executive editor Jill Abramson on Sunday at 92Y.

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• Sacha Baron Cohen’s new film, The Dictator, is pretty much what you expected.

• The Daily Show’s Samantha Bee visited the Park Slope Food Coop, and it was amazing.

• OMG, Whoopi’s going to be on Glee.

• The New York Knicks’ Landry Fields tweets from Carnegie Deli.

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