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Their numbers are dwindling, they have dueling seminaries, and their rabbinic leadership is divided, but none of this is keeping the Conservative movement's powers-that-be from taking the kind of decisive acti...

Since we were in mourning for most of 2007, Jewdar wasn't able to listen to music, and now that we can, it's a little like coming out of a cryogenic freeze. "Are the kids still listening to Neil Sedaka?&q...

We recently said some fairly harsh things about Rabbi Joshua Hammerman's stupid comments about us and the Holocaust. At the time, we were convinced that Rabbi Hammerman was a smug, self-righteous jackass. We wo...

Last night, Welcome to the Captain premiered on CBS. On the one hand, it has Jeffrey Tambor playing a former TV writer-turned building manager named Saul Fish, an accountant named "Marty" played by a...

The next time some guy with Ron Jeremy's facial hair tries to screw with Jewdar, he'd better bring his bitchin', bass-heavy, 1970's-style porno soundtrack. This past week, the Jewish Week ran an opinion piece b...

Normally, Jewdar gets miffed when confronted by de-Judaized television and film characters. In the case of ABC's new show Eli Stone, however, we're relieved. The idea that a high-powered lawyer named Eli Ston...

So Jewdar is walking down the street the other day, when we are confronted by a bus-stop ad for a film featuring not one, not two, but three Jewish lead actresses (and no, it wasn't Fiddler on the Roof II: The...

If your image of Carnival in Rio is similar to the photo above, you're in for a rude and somewhat bizarre shock. This year, a group in Rio plans to include a Holocaust-themed float in the festivities. We at _...

Jewdarphiles have long counted on us to provide them with the cutting-edgiest commentary on all things Jewish and pop-culture. Sometimes, though, an issue arises that requires us to break from our customary bad...

Thursday was the first yahrzeit of Jewdar's father. For those who are unfamiliar with Jewish mourning customs (and you should remain unfamiliar, God willing), you can't listen to music for the year after the d...

Big mazel, as they say in the music biz (you can tell Jewdar is an entertainment industry insider because we use words like "biz"), to Jordan Bratman and Christina Aguilera on the ceremonial snipping of their son.

Way back in "the Fall of 2005":http://www.heebmagazine.com/articles/view/18 Jewdar showed some—well, not love, per se, but at least moderate affection—for gay pop icon and Ramaz grad Ari Gold. Tomorrow morning ...