Following controversy over anti-Semitic comments on The Badger Herald's website and an online ad linking to a Holocaust denial website, Herald Editor-in-Chief Jason Smathers decided Wednesday to make amends with UW-Madison's Jewish community by converting to Judaism.
""Oy, I was a real schmuck before, but hopefully joining the tribe will get them off my tuches,"" Smathers said while preparing a noodle kugel recipe given to him by his bubbe.
Smathers said he would go the extra mile by undergoing a circumcision this Saturday, but he said the decision had troubled his girlfriend, Herald News Editor Alex Brousseau.
""Alex looked like she was about to plotz when I told her, and she kept kvetching about me not being able to schtup her for a few days,"" he said. ""Typical shikse.""
Smathers said the circumcision would be performed by a member of the Herald staff, since he wanted someone who was used to working with dicks.
