We'll get a lot of publicity.' Now he's glad he did it,' Beckenheimer says. I told him, ''Come on, man, let's just do it. 'My partner Charlie was born and raised Catholic and he really didn't understand the Jewish humor.' Meanwhile, Walker ordered two rabbi costumes online, found yarn at Michael's that would make perfect side curls for Hasidic Jews, and recruited his mother Laura Walker, to play his bubbe, the video grandmother who serves up a platter of latkes.Д«eckenheimer, 21, and his partners, Charlie Anderson and Andrew Sadtler shot and edited the video within two days over Thanksgiving weekend.Д«eckenheimer, who is Jewish, got the video's jokes. 'I pretty much sat down on my bed and listened to for four or five hours in a row and wrote down ideas.' Though busy, Beckenheimer said yes, and waited until the last minute to storyboard the song. Walker contacted Justin Beckenheimer, a Towson University film student and co-founder of Stratatek Studios, to see if he would be interested in a video collaboration. But members of Walker's college rock band, Midnight Spaghetti & the Chocolate G-Strings, saw potential for something with a little more ambience. Last year at this time, the classically trained pianist posted a video on YouTube of his solo performance of 'Chinese Food' that spawned a strong fan base. 'I wrote from my own experience,' he says. Every artist needs a Christmas standard, the instructor told the class. Walker composed 'Chinese Food' for a songwriting class at James Madison University, from which he graduated in 2005. Had the video been 'the slightest bit disrespectful, I would have killed him,' Schorr says of the winning band teacher. Schorr welcomes questions raised by 'Chinese Food.' Beth Tfiloh 'is an environment that encourages questioning and encourages discussion,' she says. 'The school community is loving it,' says Zipora Schorr, the school's director of education. 'The general tone of the video does not imply that there was malevolence or an intent to perpetuate negative images.'ДЄt Beth Tfiloh, which enrolls preschool through high school students, Walker's video has mainly received kudos. The video 'was meant as a joke, although we absolutely understand why it would upset some people,' says Rachel Werner, assistant regional director of the Anti-Defamation League's Washington regional office. Jews are one of the most charitable cultural groups in the world.'

On a YouTube post, Walker explained that 'Chinese Food on Christmas' employs 'outrageous scenarios' to show 'just how silly and ridiculous our stereotypes can be. Just as the Torah opens itself up to a multitude of interpretations, so does the lesson of the coin. The infinite gray area where self-parody and racism cross paths is a gold mine for a thinking Jew, he suggests. 'I'm happy it opened up all of this dialog,' he says. But I don't see how showing the car stop to get out and pick up the coin DISPELS a myth? It keeps it going.'ДЇor Walker, 24, instant matinee idol at the Orthodox Jewish day school in Pikesville and member of the Owings Mills Jewish community, the controversy is an opportunity. One skeptic weighed in on YouTube: 'It's one thing to have religious guys dancing around.

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