Author jewdar

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...

Jewdar is not thrilled with the "all goy all the time" lineup for the new Three Stooges biopic. What makes the choice of Sean Penn (who at least has a touch of the Torah-brush) as Larry so annoying, ...

As soon as we saw the news about Iowa legalizing same sex marriage, we knew it was coming, and lo and behold, just a few days later, Vermont follows suit. Let's be clear, we have no problem with gays, but we th...

Let's first of all get some conflict of interest issues out of the way: Yes, Streit's has been a longtime advertiser in Heeb. And yes, Heeb's own associate director of business David Kelsey was involved in the ...

Sometimes life plays out like a sitcom, sometimes like a dark comedy. When a Palestinian youth orchestra played music for a group of Holocaust survivors, it seemed like the kind of rare burst of humanity that m...

In what seems to Jewdar to be the basis for what may be the most awesome sitcom ever, a group of Amish took a chasidic-sponsored tour of Crown Heights, allegedly for the purpose of developing ties between the t...

Sometimes something comes along which is just so freakishly crazy that even we couldn't come up with it. Case in point--that NBA superstart LeBron James, when asked by Time Magazine who whom he would tap for t...

As we approach the April 1 deadline for entries to Heeb Magazine's Fake Holocaust Memoir Contest, I thought I'd chime in on the online cottage industry of Heeb haters it seems to have engendered. In my 5 years ...

Let's be clear about this. There's no such a thing as good cyberharassment. Pretty much by definition, it's always bad, and always crazy. But accepting those qualifiers, we can say that there is a difference be...

And the wacky misadventures of John Demjanjuk keep on going. Drafted into the Red Army, taken prisoner by the Germans, recruited as an SS auxilliary to work in a death camp, came here after the war under false ...

To be sure, The Watchmen is not the Jewiest of films (but since this is Jewdar, the Comedian is played by Jeffrey Dean Morgan, who also plays the dead deforeskinned dreamboat, Judah Botwin, in Weeds), but we to...