President Obama is heading to Israel for a much-publicized diplomatic trip, and to welcome the leader of the free world, the Israeli Embassy made this video. And put it on the internet. For everyone to see.

While the whole thing is pretty awkward, the kicker is when the theme song from Golden Girls, “Thank You For Being a Friend,” starts playing. As Adam Chandler wrote over at the Scroll, the musical selection “may pay dividends in Florida, but the younger set may revolt.”

What do you think of the video?

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Has it all been a lie? BuzzFeed reports that Lena Dunham, who’s registered to vote in Brooklyn—and who made that weirdly sexual pro-Obama voting video—didn’t actually vote.

Even more galling, however, is Dunham’s admission that the first character she’d kill off on Girls would be our girl Shoshanna. That definitely wasn’t the answer we expected when we asked ‘How do you solve a problem like Shoshanna?‘ during Season 1.

Previously: Lena Dunham Wants Your First Time Voting to Be Special
How Do You Solve a Problem Like Shoshanna?

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First he became a man. Now, he’s a high school graduate. That’s right, people: Drake, born October 24, 1986, has fulfilled the requirements needed to graduate high school. We’re verklempt, really.

97% on my final exam. 88% in the course. One of the greatest feelings in my entire life. As of tonight I have graduated high school!

— Drizzy (@Drake) October 18, 2012

It must have been hard for Drizzy to concentrate on that final, what with Shyne—fresh off his rant against Rick Ross’ Black Bar Mitzvah mixtape—getting all up in his business about his lack of street cred. The Orthodox Jewish deported rapper and Mitt Romney supporter told MTV News, “I would really prefer Drake to sing about girls and sing about being a good kid from Canada and whatever that entails.”

Mazel tov, Aubrey. Next stop Degrassi: Drake: the College Years.

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It’s Drake’s re-Bar Mitzvah, and You’re Invited!

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• Even the New York Times picked up on the Long Island presidential debate’s Jewishness, quoting our friends over at The Scroll.

• Does Obama have a Sarah Silverman problem?

• Israeli novelist Shani Boianjiu joins Lena Dunham as a voice of her generation.

• Dustin Hoffman got emotional while discussing some of his breakout film roles.

• Twitter: no longer the forum of choice for neo-Nazis. The popular messaging site blocked a neo-Nazi group at the request of the German government.

• The good people at Vulture made a few tweaks to a scene from this week’s Homeland episode. Spoils abound:

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Sarah Silverman released a new election video, and it’s filled with just as many f-bombs as you’d expect. The video is designed to shock, of course, but also to educate those affected by new voter ID laws. Silverman argues that the “super fucked up” laws, while claiming to prevent voter fraud, actually make it more difficult for members of certain demographics to vote.

Less vulgar than her last video, in which Silverman offered to scissor casino magnate Sheldon Adelson if he donated to Obama instead of Romney, this one urges voters in states affected by the new laws to find out what kind of identification they’ll need to vote, and make sure they have it on Election Day. The video is on a site called Let My People Vote, which is funded by the Jewish Council for Education and Research.

Watch Silverman’s latest foray into politics for yourself:

Previously: Sarah Silverman Wants to Scissor Sheldon Adelson for Obama
Update: 100 People Make ‘Schlep’ to Florida on Sarah Silverman’s Whim
Sarah Silverman Wants You to Schlep Your Fat Jewish Ass to Florida

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Our favorite person ever, Natalie Portman, showed her political side over the weekend, speaking at the Nevada Women Vote 2012 Summit. The ‘Women for Obama’ event is part of the campaign’s outreach to female voters, and Portman’s presence certainly upped the profile of the Sunday summit.

According to VegasNews.com, “Portman said that the GOP spent too much time blocking Obama’s reforms and too little time fixing the country’s problems.” No word on baby Aleph’s political preferences though.

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• The Onion looks at Mitt Romney’s campaign promises vis a vis Israel.

• Alice Walker, a supporter of the BDS movement, won’t let her novel The Color Purple be translated into Hebrew.

• Noted pugilist and sometime rapper Drake told MTV that he wants to “bring people together” with his next album, which will be his third.

• This week’s New Yorker features a story, “Means of Suppressing Demonstrations,” by 25-year-old Israeli writer Shani Boianjiu.

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Before the day technically started (Pre-waking up, shower, coffee) I liked Michael Ian Black.  After reading about how he handled a heckler who compared Obama to Hitler(“He killed six million of my people, which is six million more than Obama has killed.  You’re a fucking idiot”) I liked him more, and bothered him with four questions.

Do you really feel bad? He heckled you, didn’t he deserve it?

I do feel bad. Not because he didn’t deserve a response, but because he didn’t deserve the response he got, which was more or less an inarticulate string of profanities. It was easy and cheap, and I could have found a way to make the incident funnier instead of just upping the vitriol. To be fair to myself, after I screamed at him, I did ask him if there was anything he wanted to say to defend himself, but by that point he was gone. (I couldn’t see him because, as I said in my piece, he was shrouded in darkness.)

Is this an example of “Jewish guilt”?

No. My guilt has more to do with being an American. I’m the first person to bitch when people start screaming past each other over political/social/religious disagreements in this country, and yet what do I do when presented with an opportunity to lose my shit? I lose my shit. Not good. I definitely don’t want to come off sounding all high and mighty, but I don’t like what’s going on in my country, and I don’t want to make it worse.

Is this just a new routine for you? Are you going to plant people in the audience to ask moronic questions like this so you can become an “angry comedian”?

I should ask that guy to go on the road with me. That’s a great idea. Before this happened, I was thinking about developing a long piece about the nature of being offended. What does it mean to say “I’m offended?” Why are people so offended all the time? This incident made me think I should try to figure that piece out because I think there’s something worth talking about there.

If the same situation happened, except it was on “Celebrity Poker Showdown”, and Hank Azaria (also a Jew) said Obama was like Hitler, would you tear into him?

It would never happen. I mean, I would have to believe a Jewish comedian saying that would be saying it as a comment on people who say stupid shit like that. However, if I pressed, and it turned out that person was actually expressing that sentiment, I would zero problem tearing into him, even if that celebrity was as ripped as Hank. I would just try to do a better job at it.

That’s nice…

Incidentally, although I love Obama, I hope my reaction would have been as vehement if the heckler had said the same thing about W, who I did not care for. Here’s something I believe that nobody else seems to believe: people are doing the best they can. They’re trying to make good decisions, and instead of seeing everybody who disagrees with us as the enemy, we should first take it at face value that they are doing their best. Even when we think they’re fucking morons.

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