Rabbi Lapin recently unleashed a bizarre tirade in The Jewish Press against "the role that people with Jewish names play in the coarsening of our culture." ... Such tactics are not new for Lapin. During the controversy over Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ," he wrote that it was hypocritical for Jewish groups to protest what many saw as the film's anti-Semitic themes, given that Jewish Hollywood executives had been involved with allegedly anti-Christian fare such as the 1988 film "The Last Temptation of Christ." Never mind that "The Last Temptation" was directed and scripted by gentiles.