Author jewdar

For a long time, Jews and gays have essentially treated Tinseltown like a time-share, and for good reason. The last time Hollywood's Jews went head to head with Hollywood's gays for Oscar glory, it was 1994, a...

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is a complicated affair, and if one really wishes to demonstrate an understanding of it, it requires a thorough reading in Jewish religious devotion to the land of Israel, 19th ...

Jewdar has never been particularly inclined to watch tennis, but this week, we've got nothing but love for the Tennis Channel. For those who've missed it, this past week, Dubai denied Israeli Tenniseuse Shahar...

To be sure, false Holocaust memoirs are hardly a recent phenomenon (Next time, Art Spiegelman, do a little research--there was no concentration camp called "Mauschwitz."). But in recent years, they s...

For years, _Heeb_ publisher Josh Neuman has nursed a certain amount of resentment towards Alfred E. Neuman, A. Because _Mad_ Magazine publishes as a monthly B. Because Josh wants to be the most famous Neuman in...

It seems that Jewdar is not the only one who has spent time wondering what life is like at the home of Maury Povich and Connie Chung. Apparently Walla Walla's Whitman College is conducting the world's first e...

And so we have reached the end of the administration of the man many Jews consider "the best friend Israel ever had" in the White House. To recap for those who weren't paying attention, since then, Is...

So tonight Jewdar is all set to watch the truly remarkable Waltz with Bashir, and a trailer comes on for a Jewquin Phoenix/Gwyneth Paltrow (whose Abrahamic ancestry is sufficiently well-known to need no dazzlin...

In a move eagerly awaited by embarrassed advocates of intermarriage, Blake Civil-Fielder (aka, The British K-Fed) announced that he would be divorcing Amy Winehouse, allegedly due to her adultery. Jewdar prays...

All right, we admit, we're always pleased when a celebrity says something nice about Israel, but can the rest of them please shut up, already? I mean, if Bono doesn't condemn Israel, what makes you think you ca...

Anyone prove they love Israel by showing up to the Israel Day Parade on a sunny summer day. But several thousand of us who really, really love the Jewish state were out in force on Sunday on 42nd Street, showin...

Of all the annoying and absurd allegations aired against Israel in this era, perhaps none is so ludicrous as the charge that Israel's response is "disproportionate." Well, duh. Isn't it supposed t...