Please Hammer, Don’t Hurt Them!
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...
Roper Dope
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...
Frank Insensitivity
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...
Passing a Stone
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...
Two-Point Conversion
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...
Blame it on Rio
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 _...
Clubhouse Cafe: The _Heeb_ Review
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...
Bundle of Goy
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.
On Whoopi’s Cushion
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 ...
Hardly Comic
While on the subject of the year's best and worst, Jewdar tips the proverbial yarmulke to the governments of the Arab League, which in our mind, are about as close to the "Legion of Doom":http://en.wikipedia.or...
