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Richard Rushfield’s Latest: We don’t watch American Idol, but we’ve become addicted to Rabbi Richard Rushfield’s recap. In today’s installment, he channels his inner Spinoza and charges that the crowd that “gathered to coronate their newly named Top 12 was indeed brazenly, incautiously jubilant … 11 of these 12 are being crowned tonight just so that one by one they can have their final conference with Angel of Death Seacrest.”