Joan Rivers went on Letterman this week and made fun of Adele for being fat.

Urban Outfitters once again finds itself in trouble over an ostensibly insensitive article of clothing — this time a yellow T-shirt featuring a pocket patch the Anti-Defamation League says bears more than a passing resemblance to the yellow Star of David badge worn by Jews during the Holocaust.

In her response to accusations her violent rhetoric was connected to Jared Loughner's shooting spree, Sarah Palin claimed that media figures had manufactured a "blood libel" against her. How would the Anti-Defamation League, the Jewish civil rights group, take this?

The Simon Wiesenthal Center, which financed Manhattan's brand-new Museum of Tolerance, has joined fellow Jewish rights organization the Anti-Defamation League in opposing Cordoba House, the Islamic center near Ground Zero. Does Fareed Zakaria have any Wiesenthal Center awards to return?

The Anti-Defamation League has issued a pathetic statement opposing Cordoba House, aka the "Ground Zero Mosque." While the ADL condemns the bigotry galvanizing Cordoba's opponents, and thinks proponents have "every right" to build there... it says they shouldn't anyway. Huh?

Bernie Madoff's alleged $50 billion swindle was a Jew-on-Jew crime. Jewish investors and charities lost a bundle. Now they suffer disgrace of having another anti-Semitic evil-banker stereotype. And Jewish media watchdogs are not helping!

The Anti-Defamation League, eager as ever to publicize menaces to the Jewish people, fears Bernie Madoff's $50 billion swindle has led to a flood of online Jew-hating. Among Internet commenters. How convenient for the ADL!

Well there goes the semiotic neighborhood. Rachel Matthews, a "celebrity knitter," has kicked up quite a kerfuffle in the UK for writing a book on how to knit historical tyrants. She's got Idi Amin, Pol Pot, Saddam Hussein and—because to leave him out would have been unthinkable—Adolf Hitler. The ever excitable Abe…