• President Obama won 69 percent of the Jewish vote. Tee hee. [JTA]

• District Diva Mindy Meyer lost, big time, in last night’s election. We’re talking three percent of the vote. [Forward]

• Tony Kushner talks Lincoln in the Obama era. [LA Weekly]

• The Gaza crocodile has been caught and returned to the zoo it escaped from two years ago. “We hope he lives a good life here with his wives,” a policeman actually said. [Yahoo!]

• Jewcy favorite Jason Segel might not be involved, but the Muppets sequel will feature new music from Flight of the Conchords’ Muppet-grammy-winner Bret McKenzie. [Vulture]

• Ithaca grad Ben Feldman called his aunt in Chicago to tell her about his Emmy nomination for his role on Mad Men. [Access Hollywood]

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The District Diva has struck again. Last night the Jewish Channel hosted a debate between incumbent Democrat Kevin Parker and Mindy Meyer, the 22-year-old Orthodox Jewish law student challenging him in the New York State Senate race. Meyer never showed, so naturally, the Jewish Channel showed an empty chair instead.

Here’s what debate moderator Steven I. Weiss had to say about Meyer’s debate no-show:

Meyer did not appear at the debate, despite The Jewish Channel’s having already rescheduled the debate after Ms. Meyer protested that an initial date of October 12th was too close to the Jewish holidays. Over multiple weeks of contact, Meyer’s campaign never suggested a time at which the candidate would be available; three days prior to the debate, Meyer’s campaign wrote a producer at The Jewish Channel, stating in full, “Mindy will not attend the debate. She has school commitments.”

You can watch the full video from the debate interview, which presumably doesn’t do much to make Meyer’s Senate bid more serious than pink elephants and Hunger Games costumes. You’ll get ’em next time, Mindy.

Kevin Parker vs. Mindy Meyer Debate Hosted by The Jewish Channel; Meyer Chooses Not To Appear, Represented by Empty Chair [TJC Newsdesk] Related: ‘District Diva’ Mindy Meyer Wants Your Vote [The Scroll] Previously: 10 Reasons Why 22-Year-Old Mindy Meyer Would Make a Great State Senator

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• OMG. Bette Midler might appear on Glee—as Rachel Berry’s grandmother.

• Paul Shaffer says he might not always be the band leader on the Late Show with David Letterman.

• That famous Edvard Munch painting, ‘The Scream,’ about to be displayed in the Museum of Modern Art, has a Nazi-era history that’s not being disclosed by the museum, say descendents of the painting’s Jewish former owners.

• Someone bought the Tribeca townhouse Dominique Struss-Kahn was renting while on house arrest in New York. Hope there aren’t any ghosts of libertines past.

• Urban Outfitters is coming out with a Lisa Frank line. Suburban girls everywhere completely freak out.

• Mindy Meyer brought an elephant to her Long Island fundraiser—that 15 people attended.

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• Milton Glaser says he read through Jonah Lehrer’s book, Imagine, and the sections quoting him aren’t quite accurate.

• Matt Drudge might be Twitter-stalking Israeli DJ Offer Nissim.

• Parks and Recreation’s Adam Scott has a storage unit in Los Angeles filled with pictures of a mulleted Paul Rudd and a thank you note from Martin Scorcese.

• District Diva Mindy Meyers, running for State Senate in Brooklyn, did a photo shoot for the New York Post.

• James Franco is directing an adaptation of Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying, starring Danny McBride. Sigh.

• Alison Brie: still the most awesome person ever:

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• Nas is a big fan of Lena Dunham’s show Girls

• Jewcy columnist Jacob Silverman wonders whether online book culture has gotten too chummy.

• Remembering the legendary Lenny Bruce, who died 46 years ago today.

• Jonah Lehrer, quote fabricator and… hottie?

• Is political hopeful Mindy Meyer taking a page from Real Housewives of New York’s Jill Zarin and Bethenny Frankel?

• Behold: the trailer for Season 2 of Homeland.

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Politicians, they’re just like us! Except Mindy Meyer, the 22-year-old yeshiva alum and law student running for New York State Senate, actually kind of is. Here are 10 reasons we think she’d be great at the job. In the words of Meyer’s inspiration, Elle Woods, “What, like it’s hard?”

1. Her website is mindymeyer4senate.com. Numbers > letters, pretty much always.

2. She’s a certified makeup artist, so she won’t be spending campaign dollars on a makeup team.

3. She’s read the Hunger Games (hopefully all of them) so we’ll definitely have things to talk about.

4. She cites Legally Blonde’s Elle Woods as an inspiration for going to law school, so someone is bound to leak her application video any day now.

5. She understands the value of a sparkly GIF.

6. She’s not afraid to wear pink before Election Day.

7. She likes to play chess! She even hangs around when it’s not her turn yet.

8. She’s the youngest student in her law school class, so she’s used to environments where her colleagues are older than her.

9. She will probably have a great playlist for her victory party, and that playlist will most definitely include LMFAO.

10. She’s a nice Jewish girl, duh.

You go, Mindy Meyer!

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