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.
What is the real "intolerance?" Painting antisemitic graffiti on a wall, applying the powers of the state to arrest those people who express unpopular views?
Michael Moore's recent comments are despicable and the embodiment of everything that makes a lot of Americans hate Leftists; Seth Rogen's are simply poorly timed and perhaps poorly expressed.
When the virtual transom dumps in Jewdar's lap news of good looking Arab girls gone wild, we are inclined to give them the coveted Jewdar Seal of Approval.
Tolkien, way back in 1937, compassionately captured the tragedy of the Jewish people's exile, as well as dispassionately and quite presciently capture the degree to which the end of that exile would spell tragedy for another people.
Sure, you can go to Brooklyn, shout "Hey Shloimie, I've got some free peyos wax!" and watch the stampede--but there are sub-species that are in danger of disappearing. We speak today of the Jewish country and western singer. Specifically - Daniel Antopolosky.
Where else but in New York City would you find a couple of kids coming from Comic Con in full costume regalia stopping for a meal at a local kosher restaurant with a sukkah?
By our reckoning, movies are for entertaining, books for educating, and ne'er the twain shall meet. On a rare occasion, however, that exception appears that not only proves the rule, but actually edutains.
Ever since Jewdar heard that Argentina was playing Germany in the World Cup final, we've been devoting precious moments to coming up with the perfect joke.
Jews are justifiably known as the People of the Book, but when it comes to specifically Jewish children's books, much of the stuff out there, quite frankly, sucks butt.
Defending Mel Gibson's anti-Semitic tirade in a recent interview with Playboy magazine, actor Gary Oldman opens himself up to some trouble of his own. There's just one thing...