Author jewdar

Back in some issue or another, Jewdar expressed our reservations about the new 90210 (among other things West Beverly's huge Iranian Jewish population seems to be represented by a character who's an Iranian Sci...

First New Orleans is hit by a hurricane, now, Louisiania has suffered another blow to it's unique cultural heritage--cockfighting has been banned. To be sure, we are not fans of the "sport," but we'...

When Steve Cohen won a House seat in Memphis' Ninth Congressional District, it seemed more the result of a unique harmonic convergence than a sign of any future. In a field crowded with black candidates, Cohen...

Jewdar would like to extend condolences to the family of Alexander Isaevich Solzhenitsyn, a man whom we always considered both a great writer and a man of tremendous courage. Solzhenitsyn's personal odyssey ...

The Jewish role in the comic book industry needs no elaboration here. Mostly, though, it's been an American affair, with the occasional entry from an English 'Eeb like Neil Gaiman. Now, at last, our country ...

Jewdar joins with much of the Jewish world in greeting Ehud Olmert's recently announced decision to step down with a huge sigh of relief. To be sure, we were considerably more sanguine when he took office in ...

While Jewdar confesses to not spending too much time listening to the radio (we figure that if FDR says anything really good in his fireside chats, we can read about it in the paper the next day), from what we'...

For those Heebonists hailing from the heartland and looking for something good to do this Sunday (by which we mean actual "good" as opposed to fun, exciting, or requiring a subsequent dose of antibiot...

We at Jewdar were delighted as usual by the spectacle of another gentile in a yarmulke, but apparently, not everyone is as thrilled. The McCain campaign took the opportunity to zing Obama for his appearance at...

According to Haaretz, there's an Orthodox Lesbian scene developing in the Holy Land. Bat Kol is an organization of religious lesbian sisters doing it for themselves. This might seem fairly yawnwowthy to the a...

A younger, more sarcastic Jewdar might have taken the NY Times piece on Jews and tattoos as an opportunity to feel superior, seeing as how it took the paper of record a good decade or so to record the trend. O...

Ever eager to find the good in our fellow Yiddn, Jewdar has gone back and forth on the Satmar community. On the one hand, not a big fan of the whole rabidly anti-Israel schtick they've got going for them; on t...