Author jewdar

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...

Although some may imagine that the mark of true success is being mentioned in the _New York Times_, Jewdar has never been that impressed. How hard can it be? Be nominated by a major party to national office, ...

When Jewdar hears that someone is doing a humorous look at Jewish culture, we reach for our pistol.When we were informed that Carlos Mencia had done a Cultural Explorer piece on everyone's favorite semites, we ...