Author jewdar

So this morning, Jewdar is watching Good Day, New York, and hostess Rosanna Scotto starts discussing the news that Mel Gibson's sons are taking legal steps to secure their inheritance now that their still-marri...

Working at Heeb, spending all our time conversing with the people in our little Jewish magazine fishbowl, it's easy to lose perspective. Sometimes its good, then, to go out in the world, and see what's going on...

Jewdar is still reeling from the news coming out of Riverdale this morning--Archie is going to walk down the aisle with either Betty or Veronica. If all goes according to plan, Archie readers will be treated (a...

Not since 1945 has the question of whether or not someone is a Jew been so compelling for so many people. But whether or not American Idol finalst Adam Lambert is Chosen (not to be confused with the question or...

Arkansas' current GOP candidate for the US Senate recently referred to Senator Chuck Schumer (Jew-NY) as "that Jew." What Jewdar truly loves about screw-ups like this is the explanation that invariabl...

Khaled Meshal, Hamas' High Muckety Muck, announced this week that Hamas would be willing to accept a Palestinian state within the 1967 borders. Before you get too excited, please note that Meshal, who a couple ...

Vanity Fair might have thought it was cutting edge to identify a group of Jewish writers as being "the New Yiddishists." Well, if there's a question as to who has the cuttingest edge in the Jewish cul...

Had Israeli Healh Ministry bigwig Yakov Litzman, had his way, Israel would have spent its 61st birthday free of swine flu. Litzman, from the hareidi United Torah Judaism party, declared that "swine flu,&qu...

We know, it's a week after Hitler's birthday, but hey, we were never good with getting presents in on time. Word on the street in Bombay (we'll call it "Mumbai" when they call their film industry &qu...

Over the years, Jewdar has had plenty of fun making light of the sub-par reading skills of Heeb afficionados. And to be sure, the entries we received for the Heeb Fake Holocaust Memoir Contest did not do much ...

Last night, at around 8:30 p.m. Eastern Standard Time, you may have noticed a giant sucking sound. That would have been the sound of Fox's new animated show, Sit Down, Shut Up, sucking. Created by Arrested Deve...

Mama-Loshn has definitely taken some heavy blows in the last century. The blandishments of America led millions to abandon it for English, while in Russia, Yiddish itself was used a medium of anti-Jewish cultu...