A cheer went up through the line of more than 150 people when a Krispy Kreme truck pulled up around 5:45 a.m., Tuesday.

First in line was Rami Genauer. He won a dozen free doughnuts each week for a year. Genauer said if there's one word to describe his wait, it's "irony."

Genauer is an orthodox Jew who won't eat the doughnuts because they're not kosher. He plans to give them to the homeless.

You are very wise, humble and pious, Ariela... from this day forward you will now be known as the holy Reb Gedalyahu Yekutiel Krevat of Chelm, also known as the 'Baatlaner Rebbe'... now let your chassidish adventures begin, your talmidim are waiting!

One day the Rabbi was called to the neighboring town of Lublin for a Rabbinical Conference. Each of the rabbis tried to show how brilliant their powers were. The Rabbi of Lublin asked a riddle. "Who is my father's son but he is not my brother?" The other rabbis thought, but couldn't come up with the answer. "Me," replied the Rabbi triumphantly. The Rabbi of Chelm was very impressed with the riddle and couldn't wait to get home to tell it to his congregation.

That Friday night after his speech the people asked him to share some of the wisdom he had picked up at the conference. "OK," said the Rabbi, shaking back and forth and stroking his long grey beard, "Listen carefully, I am going to ask you a riddle. Who is this? He's my father's son but he's not my brother." The people of Chelm thought and thought, each one trying for an answer, but finally they all turned to the Rabbi. "We give up," they acknowledged.

"Simple," replied the wise sage, "He is the Rabbi of Lublin."

While we understand this scene was an attempt to show how easily a group of ordinary people can be encouraged to join in an anti-Semitic chorus, we are concerned that the irony may have been lost on some of your audience – or worse, that some of your viewers may have simply accepted Borat's statements about Jews at face value.

Her name is Hila. She is 22 years old and lives in Tel Aviv. She is very attractive, single, looking for a Jewish husband from a good family, and most important - she is a mouse-click away. This is how the banner persuades you, the Jewish bachelor, to enter the Jewish dating site JDate and find the love of your life.

But Hila in the banner is no other than pornographic model Kari Gold, 18 years old, who lives in Hungary. She is, indeed, very attractive, has a boyfriend and is not looking for a Jewish husband at all. Gold says she is not looking for spiritual qualities in men.

Fatalities in the al-Aqsa Intifada,: 29 Sept. 2000 - 12 July 2004 (from www.btselem.org)

In the occupied territories:

2,683 Palestinians were killed by Israeli security forces in the Occupied Territories, of whom 533 were minors under the age of 18. Ages of the minors killed: One hundred and one minors were age 17, one hundred and eight were age 16, seventy five were age 15, seventy three were age 14, forty seven were age 13, twenty seven age 12, eighteen were age 11, twenty one were age 10, eleven were age 9, ten were age 8, eight were age 7, seven were age 6, three were age 5, six were age 4, five were age 3, six were two years old, four were one year old babies, one was an 11 month old baby girl, one was a 6 month old baby girl and one was a four month old baby girl.

At least 149 of the Palestinians killed were extrajudicially executed by Israel... In the course of these assasinations 100 additional Palestinians were killed, 90 of them minors.

32 Palestinians were killed by Israeli civilians, including Three minors: One was age 17, One was age 14 and One was a Two month- old baby girl. Ten foreign Citizens were killed by Israeli security forces gunfire.

207 Israeli civilians were killed by Palestinians, 34 of them were minors under the age of 18: Six were aged 17, five were age 16, seven were age 14, two were age 13, two was age 11, two was age 9, one was age 7, three were age 5, one was two years old, one was a 10 month-old baby girl, one was a 7 month-old baby girl, one was an 8 month-old baby girl, one was a 5 month-old baby boy and one was a one day old baby boy.

Seven foreign citizens were killed by Palestinians. 201 members of the Israeli security forces were killed by Palestinians. 89 Palestinians were killed by Palestinian civilians on suspicion of collaborating with Israel. 18 of them were killed while held in the custody of the Palestinian security forces. 29 Palestinian were killed by members of the Palestinian security forces. 9 of them were killed while held in the custody of the Palestinian security forces.

Three Palestinians were killed by gunfire by Palestinians who opened fire at Israeli civilians. Two members of the Palestinian security forces were killed by Palestinians who attempted to kill IDF soldiers. One Palestinian civilian was killed by gunfire when IDF soldiers forced him to serve as their human shield.

Within Israel:

49 Palestinians, residents of the Occupied Territories, were killed by Israeli security forces gunfire. One of those killed was a minor aged 14.

408 Israeli civilians were killed by Palestinians, residents of the Occupied Territories. 75 of them were minors under the age of 18. Of them: Twelve were age 17, thirteen were age 16, fourteen were age 15, six were age 14, four were age 13, three were age 12, two were age 11, one was age 10, two were age 9, two were age 8, two were age 7, one was age 5, three were age 4, three were age 3, one was a two years old baby, one was an eighteen month old baby, one was a 14 month old baby, one was a one year old baby, one was an eleven month old baby, one was a nine month old baby, and one was a seven month old baby.

3 Israeli civilians were killed by foreign citizens. 33 foreign citizens were killed by Palestinians. Two of them were minors: One of them - 16 years old and the other - Five months old. 83 members of the Israeli security forces were killed by Palestinians, residents of the Occupied Territories.

"Mordechai Vanunu worked as a nuclear technician at Dimona, Israel's secret nuclear installation from 1976 to 1985. He worked there at a time when Israel was insisting it would not be the first to introduce nuclear weapons to the Middle East. What Vanunu discovered is that Israel had secretly developed an extensive nuclear program, hiding its existence from the Israeli people and parliament, and the world.

Vanunu leaked information and photos of Israel's nuclear weapons program to the Sunday Times in London. He was subsequently kidnapped by Israeli spy agency Mossad in Italy and then jailed. He would go on to spend 18 years behind bars including 11 in solitary confinement."

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I am extremely curious as to what "sensitive content" on my website does not comply with your organization's policies. Could you please specify?

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"Upon reviewing your site, we found that many of the ads that would appear on your site would not be relevant to your site's content, as a whole."

I find this to be a wholly fallacious statement. You seem to have no trouble at all placing relative ads on http://protocols.blogspot.com/ and http://www.theyadablog.com/ to which my site is considered a contemporary (and in fact, both sites regularly quote mine, not to mention the fact that I've lectured on panels alongside the editors of both of those sites and am a contributor to the latter), nor do you have trouble placing advertisements on any number of other Jewishly-themed websites apart from mine. Your statement that the ads are not relevant does not intimate the label of "sensitive content" which was your preliminary dismissal. I did not ask whether or not the site's material was "incompatible" with AdSense, but rather why the material is considered "sensitive."

I would still like an answer to this question that is not scripted, but rather, based on the assesment of the staff who deemed it so. Thus I shall reiterate my question, which was not answered: "I am extremely curious as to what 'sensitive content' on my website does not comply with your organization's policies. Could you please specify?"

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So I added the Javascript and I'm just getting this big blank space...Does it take a while for the ads to start displaying?

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You guys are really starting to wear my patience thin.

First I get rejected because my content is "sensitive." Then I write you to ask what's sensitive about it and you respond, not by answering my question, but by saying the ads would be irrelevant to my site. Then when I point out that you are running ads on two other sites which parallel mine (and which in fact, regularly quote mine) and demand, again, to know what's wrong with my content, I get an e-mail back apologizing and welcoming me to AdSense. Now, you're e-mailing me to tell me that I may as well yank the Javascript from my template because my content is purportedly sensitive and not "family-safe", and thus the ads are irrelevant to my site.

Would you care to give me a straight answer regarding what is sensitive about the content on my site; what it is that you deem objectionable?

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Wait, I'm sorry. Let me get this straight. The term "Holocaust," when used in a discussion about the wrongfulness of Holocaust denial, is "sensitive," but the ad for the book "Hitler is Winning" which is now being displayed in my Adsense bar isn't? Are you kidding me?

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Women at the Wall, on the other hand, fought the Israeli Government for about 14 years for the right to pray as a group, read from the Torah and wear tallitot on the women's side of the Kotel. (All of these activities are permitted by Jewish law.) During that time, things often got violent, as angry haredim screamed obscenities and threw eggs, chairs, and worse at the women as they attempted to pray; several months ago a friend of mine was actually punched in the face. Last year the High Court denied WotW's petition and ruled that they must read Torah and/or don tallitot and tefillin at an "alternate location."

The raw deal was reported by the Jerusalem Post:

"The government of Israel spent millions of shekels to put us in a second-class section of the wall," said the head of the Women of the Wall, Anat Hoffman.... [She] noted that every time the group wants to organize a prayer event at the site, it needs to apply for permission to do so from the company that built it, and must ensure it does not need to pay the normal admission fee to enter the compound.