​Dr. Amora Rachelle, the ex-wife of Avraham Rabinowich, vice president of the Long Island Board of Rabbis, is going hard in her custody battle with a pretty inexcusable, not-so-secret weapon, which she's handed right over to the New York Post. With the help of a private investigator, Amora taped her children's father being serviced by a call girl and her madam, who was actually Amora's private eye. "Since when are prostitutes kosher?" Amora asked, with expert media savvy. "And what kind of rabbi is he? He didn't even take these prostitutes to the mikvah [Jewish ritual cleansing bath] first. What is he doing, praying or laying?" The rabbi said he had "no response," though his lawyer piped up to call the sting a "setup" (well, yes) and insist, "It doesn't matter, this was five or six years ago." It was six months before the couple's divorce was finalized.

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​A video surfaced online yesterday of a teenager being beat by an adult (either his uncle or father, the video is unclear) for pretending to be gang-affiliated and being "hard." It has gone viral very quickly, achieving about one million views, 2,000 tweets and 176,000 Facebook shares in less than 24 hours. The video reveals a heavy sympathy online towards strict and abusive parenting. Link to the video after the jump.

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Did you catch the eclipse last night? Or did you only watch it in your pillow? Fear not, here's a pretty cool time-lapse video of what you missed. Turn down the creepy-dramatic music and sub in whatever's to your liking.

Winter Solstice Lunar Eclipse from William Castleman on Vimeo.

The Atlantic also has the moon's various phases, as seen over Mexico City. Pretty.

​When Steve Jobs revealed the iPad to the world, we were told to expect the world to be changed by the way we consume movies, music, write emails, and read things. Instead, what we really got was a better way to play Angry Birds, which is the best thing that happened in 2010. And now, there's a movie.

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I'm not sure if the Taiwanese think Americans are categorically insane, or if all the people who work in Taiwanese television are categorically insane, but yet again, those wacky Taiwanese folks at Next Media Animation have succeeded in both animating and (kinda) capturing the insanity of the Four Loko saga. In fact, imagine coming up with this, and you kind of have a decent idea of what 3/4ths a can of Four Loko is actually like. It is, if anything, a decent meta-PSA. [FK]

​Texting while driving isn't quite the insane meanace in New York City it is in, say, Los Angeles, where driving is the primary means of commuting. In the five boroughs, however, you're more likely to worry about your cab driving texting. But your subway conductor?

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​The New York Times is finally picking up on this whole Internet = Cats thing. They put up a chart and a video of cats drinking water (unfortunately letting some pesky science words get in the way of all that hard work). And yet, their video on cats drinking is not embeddable! They know better than to just make their best stuff ripe for the picking. As such, here are five videos of cats drinking for you to embed:

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​New York City's film and television production has an epicenter of Weird. It isn't on some obscure public access channel, or even the guy who does the cooking tips for NY1. No, it's Hoda and Kathy Lee, who host the fourth hour of NBC's Today. They are typically drunk and generally absurd, like a bad SNL sketch brought to life and glory.

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​Pee Wee Herman (né Paul Reubens) -- whose Broadway show running right now is obviously the best thing to happen to "legit" New York theater since Cats was euthanized -- decided to do a little promo work to get the word out.

At a WWF wrestling match.

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​Last Halloween, the sealant-huffing organization behind hipster bible VICE magazine threw themselves a 15th anniversary party in a warehouse in Williamsburg, filling it with booze, skateboard ramps, bands, and wasted barely-legals from all over the land, claiming to have spent $250,000 on it. It was a shitshow of epic proportion likely to never be replicated. Ever. So how does VICE follow up this year?

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