For on the menu were swordfish, buffalo . . . and even locust.

And - wait for it - everything was kosher. Guests around the table included rabbis, tucking into the meat of rare animals and birds.

The two men behind the project - Dr Ari Greenspan, a mohel from Efrat, and Dr Ari Zivotofsky, of Bet Shemesh - have spent years documenting and preserving the tradition of "pure animals".

They have compiled a list of animals "with obvious kosher characteristics which were consumed by Jews throughout history".

Their list includes deer, ibex, buffalo, pheasant, sparrow, partridge, pigeon and guineafowl.

It may all have gone down well with the Jews of yesteryear, but we find it all a bit, well, hard to swallow.

Temple No3 is planned

IT sounded like all our prayers were being answered.

For a revelation came through on the news wires that a third Temple was being built.

It would be made of stones cut exactly like those of King Solomon's Temple.

As students of Jewish history will recall, the original Temple went up in 960 BCE and was destroyed by the Babylonians in 587 BCE. After being rebuilt, it was destroyed again by the Romans in the year 70.

So a third Temple in the holy city of Jerusalem?

Well, not exactly. This one is to be built in Sao Paulo, Brazil - by the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God.

Oh, well, back to our prayers.

Katie stops hamming it up

GLAMOUR model Jordan - aka Katie Price - has announced she is giving up pork.

It is all down to her receiving a piglet for her recent wedding to Alex Reid. But the 32-year-old should never have eaten the forbidden food in the first place.

For she is halachically Jewish through her mother Amy and grandmother Esther.

Let's hope she sticks to some good Jewish food in the future. Salt beef, anyone?

Heil! It's Paris Hilton

SHAME on you Paris Hilton.

The airhead heiress who courts controversy has really put her foot in it this time.

For she has been pictured wearing a military-style hat and performing a Heil Hitler-like salute aboard a yacht.

She claimed that she was "merely dancing and scratching her face".

Pull the other one, Paris.

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