Get out your fedoras, everyone, here’s some news:
Michael Chabon’s best-selling 2007 book, “The Yiddish Policemen’s Union,” will be made into a film by the Coen brothers. Can’t wait to see what they do with this; just please, guys, no hair mousse in this one will ya?
But I can’t wait for the tefillin jokes! How many movies have a plot that turns on a pair of tefillin? I can’t wait.

Joel and Ethan Coen, the maverick filmmakers whose Jewish sensibility has been evident in countless of their movies, but who have yet to fully actualize their Semitic humor in a full-blown Jewish film.
Until now.
Late last week, the Guardian revealed that the Coens had agreed to write and direct the film adaptation of “The Yiddish Policemen’s Union.”
“Naturally, I am over the moon about this,” Chabon wrote in an e-mail to JTA. “They are heroes of mine.”