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We at Jewdar apologize for our absence (can you people at least pretend to notice we were gone), but a freak accident left us with a fractured fifth metacarpal (that's a broken pinky knuckle for the vast majori...

I know this will be a disappontment to many, but this post is not about Tracey Gold. Rather, it's about the curious lunacy which has led many Orthodox Jews to believe that President Elect Obama is the worst thi...

Astute observers of Jewdar may have detected a slight tendency towards caustic cynicism on our part. When it comes to comic god Neil Gaiman, however, we hold our tongue, since in our estimation, the comic book...

See more Ron Howard videos at Funny or Die For a TV baby such as Jewdar, this Obamappeal was, to quote J.J. from Good Times, "Dynamite!" Much love to fellow Milwaukeeans Richie Cunningham and Arthur ...

Not since 1945 has it been such a lousy time to be an Austrian Nazi. First long-time leader Jorg Haider is killed in a flaming car crash; then it turns out that his successor, Stefan Petzner, is just flaming....

On Rosh Hashana the year is inscribed, and on Yom Kippur, it is sealed. And while repentance, charity, and prayer may cancel the stern decree, there's no indication that Jorg Haider, Austria's premier post-war...

Yehude Simon has been tapped as the new Prime Minister of Peru after a government crisis left President Garcia without a cabinet. From what Jewdar has been able to ascertain, Simon's father came from Palestine...

In a recent op-ed piece, Nat Hentoff reminds us why he's the kind of leftie Jewish icon Heeb should be profiling. Apparently, Brandeis University, named after a reasonably prominent defender of free speech, thr...

The guy who thought that breaking bread was a way to bring people together needs to spend some time in the modern Middle East. First, there were the Palestinians accusing Israel of appropriating falafel. Now, t...

Almost lost in the shuffle of preparations for Rosh Hashanah and for Jewdar Junior's birthday party was the death of 3/4 MOT Paul Newman (only his father was Jewish, but after his decades in Hollywood, we can r...

The Jewish world is all abuzz over the leaked memo making the rounds, suggesting that Jew-Know-Who's control over Hollywood may be weakening. Apparently, some Dreamworks executive assistant thinks that "R...

In his new book From Krakow to Krypton, Arie Kaplan, like wily Odysseus, skillfully navigates between the Scylla and Charybdis of writing about Jews and comic books (and now that we've made a reference to the c...