Never mind the recent Pew Religious Landscape Survey or Jimmy Carter’s recent trip to the Middle East – I’d say the most critical Jewish news item of recent days is a British tabloid report that David and Victoria “Posh” Beckham are sending their son Cruz to a Jewish day school in Los Angeles.

According to the report, Beckham himself has a Jewish mother and has referred to himself as “half-Jewish,” but that the Beckhams have “no plans to educate Cruz in the Jewish faith.” Here, however, is my favorite quote from the article:

The LA Galaxy star has the Hebrew phrase: “I am my beloved and my beloved is mine” etched on his left forearm, next to “Victoria,” mis-spelt in Hindi.

Opting for taste and restraint, The Sun chose not reveal the name of the school in question…