The Tel Aviv-born, Milwaukee-bred Jewdar has a bachelors' from the University of Wisconsin, a Masters from NYU, and an Honorable Discharge from the US Army, where he spent two years as an infantryman in the 101st Airborne Division.
He's the co-author of "The Big Book of Jewish Conspiracies", the Humor Editor of Heeb Magazine, and a watcher of TV. Smarter than most funny people, funnier than most smart people, he lives on the Lower East Side with his wife and two sons.
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...
So who is the most powerful entertainment writer in the world today? Survey says....Jewdar! Just a few hours after yours truly excoriated the organizers of Monday's anti-Ahmadinejad rally for inviting Sarah Pal...
Next Monday at the UN, a frightening figure who blends religious zealotry with grossly corrupt politcal demagoguery will be making a most unwelcome appearance at the UN. We speak, of course, of Sarah Palin, who...
Convicted spy Morton Sobell's recent admission that he was, in fact, justly convicted, and that Julius Rosenberg was a spy as well, can hopefully provide some closure on one of the worst episodes in Jewish male...
Today Jewdar was confronted with a real conundrum. On the one hand, we are chock full of Torah observance. On the other hand, we ride a bike in NYC. Thus, it was at first difficult to decide who to side with...
Barbra Streisand, knows a political winner when she sees one--just check out her '78 serenade to Golda Meir. So we are delighted to hear that she is going to do her all for first black president of the United ...
Jewdar was all set to write a scathing review of GOP Jewess and Hawaii Head Honcho Linda Lingle's intro to Sarah Palin's speech the other night, but then we got this breaking news: A threequel to Ghostbusters i...
First came the roomers that GOP VP pick Sarah Palin was plagiarizing from Desperate Housewives by passing off her unwed teenage daughter Bristol's April-born baby as her own. Then came the announcement from the...
Jewdar has just returned from a week in the Heartland, where Americans of all races, ages and genders are swooning over the bronzed icon who inspires them to think of better days and of an America that they can...
Jewdar is not normally inclined to point out the mistakes of others (aww, who are we kidding? We love to point out the mistakes of others!), and we are fans of both Haaretz and The Forward, but both papers dro...
Jewdar is not ashamed to admit that back in the day when we were addicted to Mad Magazine, we'd also take a taste of Cracked, Crazy and Sick when the real deal wasn't available. Still, while a dope fiend might...