The Tel Aviv-born, Milwaukee-bred Jewdar has a bachelors' from the University of Wisconsin, a Masters from NYU, and an Honorable Discharge from the US Army, where he spent two years as an infantryman in the 101st Airborne Division.
He's the co-author of "The Big Book of Jewish Conspiracies", the Humor Editor of Heeb Magazine, and a watcher of TV. Smarter than most funny people, funnier than most smart people, he lives on the Lower East Side with his wife and two sons.
We don't care how grand a dame or doyenne or whatever it is she's supposed to be; somebody has to let Helen Thomas know that over 60 years has passed since the founding of the State of Israel.
From the perspective of the Israeli Right, this is wonderful stuff, a time of exploiting mourning for world sympathy, and turning it into another typical PR disaster.
Sheen, who is clearly suffering from some no-longer-amusing mental illness, recently took two out of the three steps celebrities take when doing damage control for alleged bigoted remarks.
Darren Aronofsky broke up with Rachel Weisz, he makes Black Swan, casting Natalie Portman, Mila Kunis and Winona Ryder. Clearly, he's interested, so won't someone in Hollywood set him up with a Nice Jewish Girl?
In what must have been a particularly galling scene for Galliano, his suspension violated a cardinal rule of fashion -- he wasn't original, since the day before, Charlie Sheen was suspended from Two and A Half Men for his own antisemitically-themed comments.
Our big question for the day is which renowned Torah sage will take this opportunity to allege that the earthquake (in Christchurch, no less) is God visiting His wrath on New Zealand for banning kosher slaughter last year