Content Opportunity with reports from the Argument from Bad Design and anonymous Chabad members – The Tyra Banks show continues to feature the tapeworm diet with guests that are promoting it as being good for Israel and the Jewish people.

On the latest show, representatives of the controversial religious group Chabad were praising the tapeworm diet as an essential part of their form of orthodoxy and a critical facet of their kiruv or outreach to non-observant Jews.

A Chabadnik, Menachem Mendel, on the Tyra Banks show had to travel to Monsey, New York. He had not been to Monsey before, which he described as an 18th century shtetl just north of Manhattan. It was replete with people who had the dress and mannerisms of 18th Eastern European Jews but was otherwise like a typical American suburban town.

Many different groups live in Monsey: Satmar, Belz, Ger, Modern Orthodox, Yekke (to use a mildly derogative term to describe those of German origin), people who hate Chabad and we pretend to love and so on. A wide swath of Orthodox Jewry (and a number of Conservative and Reform Jews as well). These people are raising their families with high-powered Judaism. They live in an environment where one can live an observant life, and where the community re-enforces the lifestyle by making halachic (observant) Judaism the normative way to live.

There is also a growing Jewish tapeworm community in Monsey. Either by attending one of the Tapeworm Yeshivas, going to a kiruv (outreach) event, or by being m’kareved (brought close) by a Monsey tapeworm family, there are people who are impressed with what they see in the strange Jewish tapeworm diet that pervades Monsey and want to be part of it.

“Whereas groups like Aish Hatorah and their website aish.com use a faux intellectual approach while really appealing to people who are immersed in pop culture and way too much television, Chabad appeals directly to the soul of the Jew. ” said Chabad rep Menachem Mendel. “This means that we feed them a lot of food and ply them with hard liquor. When they are all liquored up we say things that are supposedly from Chassidus and blow their minds. That is when we introduce the tapeworm.”

According to our anonymous sources the tapeworms are put into a famous Shabbos lunch item known as a “cholent” (sijmilar to Irish stew but causing a great deal more flatulence). The guest eats this dish with the tapeworm or tapeworms and then his or her soul is influenced to become observant.

The Tyra Banks show is planning to bring back members of other Jewish outreach organization who are already using the tapeworm. There is speculation that Aish HaTorah is already planning to introduce the tapeworm into the refreshments that they serve at their Discovery seminars. The Discovery seminars are sponsored by Aish HaTorah. The purpose of the seminars are to inculcate Jews regarding their religious heritage by using intellectual smoke and mirrors. What is relevant about Judaism to modern Jews that watch a lot of CSI on TV? Why should one be an observant Jew? Does God exist? Did God design the universe (design argument)? Is it appropriate to use tapeworms in order to influence Jews to become Torah observant? These are some of the questions that the Discovery Seminar takes on.

One of the topics that Discovery covers are the phony Bible codes. Some people have claimed that the codes are the only thing Discovery talks about. Wrong. It is just one of the most marketable aspects of it.