Author jewdar

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...

"Hamasturbation" refers to the subtle stroking that Gaza's most beloved mass murderers receive from certain figures in the press and the diplomatic corps. First, there was this one, that made sure to...

Back in the day, Jewdar ravely reviewed Arie Kaplan's From Krakow to Krypton: The History of the Jews in Comic Books. But Kaplan does more than merely write about comics; he writes comic books. And since we wri...

Jewdar is not normally one to criticize head Heeb honcho Josh Neuman. Some of this is due to the fact that we normally agree, the rest because when we don't, he threatens to take away our coveted free beer pri...

Lord knows Jewdar doesn't want to do this, but it is Hanukkah, so Dreidel Hustler, don't say we didn't get you anything: "Bernie Madoff (above) really tushy-shtupped the Jewish community." And now, i...

Now that our good friends in Hamas have announced an end to the "truce" and started to bombard Sderot again, Jewdar wants to voice our support for a recent proposal by a Likud MK. Gilad Erdan suggeste...

For a people who spent a few thousand years avoiding the depiction of the human form, the Chosen have done pretty well for themselves in the phield of photography. But while names like Stieglitz, Capa and Weege...

Once upon a time,The Village Voice was more than just a place to find Asian hookers. Every now and then, however, it still manages to print something that matters, like the most recent issue's expose of the ass...

While the Rubashkin scandal continues to give kosher meat a bad name, Amy Winehouse's spouse Blake Fielder-Civil should serve as a cautionary tale to any NJG with a taste for treyf. Like Amy's mammele, we hope...

According to a piece in today's Times, a recent genetic study of Y-Chromosomes (those are the daddy ones, hence the title) in Spain suggests that some 20% of the population has Sephardi ancestry. Jewdar is abso...

Cosmopolitan New Yorkers that we are, Jewdar is not among the crowd that considers the paper of record to be the "New York Nazi Times." Sometimes, however--as with their editorial on the murder of Dan...