Author jewdar

Thisweekend's shootings at a Tel-Aviv gay clubis both a personal and political tragedy. Personal, of course, because innocent people were murdered. Political, because if it proves to have been religiously motiv...

If The New York Times piece on Hamas' foray into the film industry ("Hamas Shifts From Rockets to Public Relations")seems familiar, it's because you read itearlier this week in Jewdar. That's right, J...

Move over Mumbai. Back off Beverly Hills. There's a new competitor for the title of Film Capital of the World--Gaza City. Saturday saw the premier of Hamas's first feature film, Emad Akel (billboard featured in...

This has been a tricky week for relations between Russian and Jewish tennis fans. First, Anna Kournikova irately insisted upon her non-Jewishness and then Marat Safin talked smack about Israel. Before competing...

It was reported in Heeb earlier this week that Britney has been seen rockin' the Star of David again after a long hiatus. Now come reports that it may be more than just fashion, and that Britney may be planning...

In yet one more piece of evidence that life can always get stranger, Mickey Louis Mayon, a fugitive KKK member on the FBI's 100 Most Wanted list was arrested last night in Tel-Aviv after a tip-off from Interpol...

So word is that Bibi Netanyahu has been ranting about top Obama advisors David Axelrod and Rahm Emmanuel (above) being "self-hating Jews." That's fine with us, but there's just one thing we want to kn...

Given our proper Midwestern upbringing, Jewdar hates to be ungrateful. So, we'd like to begin by thanking Boaz Yakin and everybody associated with Boaz Yakin for the invitation to a screening of his new Holocau...

Jewdar's Woman of Valor Award (which is saying something, seeing as how we are writing this from the Land of Israel, replete as it is with female Jewish soldiers, policewomen, and the ghost of Golda Meir) goes ...

When Deutsche Bank announced this week that they were picking up a five percent share in Israel's Bank Leumi, there were doubtlessly numerous execs at the German firm thinking, "Finally, something for whic...

Every morning you say your morning prayers and wonder if the Almighty Master of the Universe is paying attention. And every once in a while, something comes along to let you know that He is. Apparently, Bar Ref...

Jewdar has made no secret of our disdain for the Farrelly Brothers' planned Three Stooges biopic. Still, while we're hoping that Sean Penn's decision to drop out of the role of Larry might put the kibosh on the...