Who’s the Jewish private dick that’s a mitzvah machine to all the maideles? Hammer. Hebrew Hammer. Can you dig it?

“The Hebrew Hammer,” the 2003 cult comedy, is set for release on DVD Nov. 16. Adam Goldberg stars as the Semitic super stud called upon to save Chanukah in this take-off on 1970s Blaxploitation films, directed by Jonathan Kesselman, and featuring Andy Dick, Judy Greer, Peter Coyote, Mario Van Peebles and Nora Dunn.

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