Mormon hybrids are in the news.

The Palestinian-Mormon hybrid Aron Kader, part of a comedy entourage called "Axis of Evil," does standup on the challenges growing up with Mormons and Arabs in the family. He says at the age of 19, he was asked by his Mormon relatives to go on a mission.

"To an Arab, a mission's a whole different thing. We don't come back from those."

Connecticut's Fairfield University Mirror reports the audience there "roared with laughter at Kader's predicament." For more Axis of Evil humor go here.

On a tragic note, California Rep. Tom Lantos, former chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee, died earlier this month. The only Holocaust survivor elected to Congress, Lantos was fiercely pro-Israel.

He was also married to a Mormon.

Lantos' wife, Annette, also a survivor, had converted to Mormonism and his daughters Katrina and Annette were reared Mormon.

The Jewish Ledger in Connecticut addresses the Lantos families' faiths:

In Jewish Washington, it was the fraught and thorny question that inevitably came up in discussions about Tom Lantos: What about the Mormon thing?

The Ledger reports Lantos' secular Jewish ethos was unswayed by his wife's embrace of the LDS Church.

"Tom didn't believe in God in the way that most of us do," she said at the service in the U.S. Capitol building.

His daughter, Annette, explained that Lantos was a man of "profound faith," then listed his beliefs: in the U.S. Constitution, in education, in friendship, in the responsibility to change the world for the better. But, she said, he didn't believe in God. Lantos admired his wife's beliefs, but would not embrace them: "He had faith in the sustaining power of her faith in spirituality."