(NEWS) Kagan Cracks Jewish Joke At Hearings

"US Supreme Court nominee tells senators of Israel's importance to her.

President Obama's US Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan cracked a Jewish joke Tuesday after receiving some pointed questions during her confirmation hearing from Republican senators.

When Kagan was asked where she was on Christmas, the day of an aborted airline bomb attempt, she replied to an explosion of laughter: 'Like all Jews, I was probably at a Chinese restaurant.'"