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| Tuesday, August 12, 2003 |
Jesus, this stinks: Well, the verdict is finally in. After weeks of Jewish scholars pontificating about the potential anti-Semitic overtones in Mel Gibson's 2004 film about the last 12 hours of Jesus' life, one rabbi has actually seen a rough cut of the film. Rabbi Eugene Korn, the Anti-Defamation League's Director of Interfaith Affairs, attended a private screening over the weekend at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, Texas. In a statement on it's Web site, the ADL's Abraham Foxman said, "The film unambiguously portrays Jewish authorities and the Jewish mob as the ones responsible for the decision to crucify Jesus. We are deeply concerned that the film, if released in its present form, will fuel the hatred, bigotry and anti-Semitism that many responsible churches have worked hard to repudiate."
But the more pressing question is this: Is it better than Gigli?
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