Here's proof positive that being Jewish doesn't make you smart.

Rutgers' president wants apology for Holocaust cartoon

NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. -- The student editors of an alternative Rutgers campus newspaper should immediately apologize for publishing a cartoon that mocked the Holocaust, the university's president said.

Richard L. McCormick said the full-page drawing on the cover of Wednesday's issue of the Medium, a student-funded weekly publication, was "outrageous in its cruelty." It shows a man throwing a ball at another man sitting on an oven at the campus' spring fair. The text reads, "Knock a Jew in the oven! Three throws for one dollar! Really! No, REALLY!"

Ned Berke, 19, the editor who selected the cartoon, said he made a last-minute decision to use it as a substitute for another cover that was not working.

"I appreciated that (the cartoon) was clever. It took a serious situation and made it ridiculous," Berke, who is Jewish, told The Star-Ledger of Newark.

Responding to critics who have called on the school to shut down the publication, Berke said he had relatives who died in the Holocaust.

"Humor is a way of honoring them and trying to get over it and to laugh," the sophomore journalism major said. "The Holocaust has been taboo for years."



This guy must be friends with the Jewish member of PETA that came up with the Holocaust on Your Plate campaign.