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.
When Jewdar heard that superhero Atom Smasher, aka, Albert Rothstein, was going to be appearing on season premier of The Flash, we were pretty jazzed. Until...
Lots of people struggle with mental illness, and most of them don't go around trying to poison the water supply of major metropolitan areas. Indeed, many of them go on to do some remarkable things.
Netanyahu should announce that he's willing to admit refugees descended from the 1947-49 Palestinian exodus to settle in the West Bank--indeed, he's willing to admit them permanently. Of course, in order to create these permanent settlements, he would need to work with the PA, and to get their blessing.
The South is different. Let Jewdar make this clear--we are are not a fan of the smarmy liberal tendency to paint all Southerners as illiterate rednecks. Fun fact--while Obama won among the most educated voters, he also won among the least educated. But when we say the South is different, we mean more than just voting patterns and education levels. We mean that for a long, long time--even before the Civil War--there was a Southern identity distinct from the the rest of the country.
Once upon a time, summertime was when a young Jew's fancy would turn to thoughts of summer excursions in the Catskills. And for many of them, of course, "the Catskills" meant "Kutsher's." Well, those days of yore are no more, but that doesn't mean a young Jew can't still dream.
Now, to be sure, not being German, it may be that some of the hilarity simply doesn't translate well. But some of it reminded us of when a character on a TV is supposed to be a really great artist so everybody says "wow, his stuff is so powerful."
The Indiana law is simply another example of our once great nation's downward spiral into crybabiness. I know that Indiana is part of the Midwest, but when Jewdar was a lad in Wisconsin, we understood that refusing to do your job to the best of your ability was seen as a negative thing.