To promote its upcoming return to our airwaves, here's the newest—and coolest—thing the cast of Glee has for us: a cover of Jay-Z and Alicia Keys' New York-celebrating ballad, "Empire State of Mind." Warning: it's awesome. Listen inside.

Jay-Z's Empire State of Mind has inspired countless YouTube parodies, some are great and some aren't. A whole bunch are about Jews and the crazy things we do. Let's take a look at a few.

With "Empire State of Mind" still topping the charts, parodies of it have become a cottage industry on the internet. In this one, the spotlight has been taken off New York City to praise our less glamorous neighbor, Newark.

Our J-School embed can only help us so much; he can't provide us with the brilliance that follows, in which you watch a class of Columbia J-Schoolers rapping over Jay-Z's "Empire State of Mind" about ethics in journalism.