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.
Jewdar's coveted Man of the Year Award for 2007 (we know, we know, it's a day or too late, but we had to make sure that all the ballots were in) goes to Will Smith. As many Jewdar devotees may know by now, not...
Not since Mandy Patinkin and Barbra "locked payis":http://www.bjsmusic.com/Yentl15/ has there been a collaboration between Jewish legends even remotely approaching this one.The Master of the Universe must have ...
Many's the time that Jewdar has leafed through a copy of _Martha Stewart Living_ and noted the sad efforts to include the Jews in the holiday craftwork. There, scattered about the pages and pages of Easter egg...
Let us begin by saying we are not big fans of Ann Coulter. We read _Treason_, her celebration of spuriousness some years back, and will leave it up to "William F. Buckley":https://www.claremont.org/publication...
When news of Senator Larry Craig's ill-fated "search for love":http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/docs/craig-arrest-doc/ in a Minnesota airport men's room first broke, we at Jewdar weren't sure if we should comme...
We at Jewdar are not among those critical of "Columbia University's":http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2006/11/26/2006-11-26_wild_sex_101_sm_clubs_nude_parties_porn_.html decision to let Iranian President Ahmadin...
Some may poo-poo our review of the CW's new teen angstfest, "_Gossip Girl_.":http://cwtv.com/shows/gossip-girl True, many TV critics came out with their reviews even before the show aired, but how many of them ...
Many observers on the Israel scene were wringing their hands when "Burger King":http://www.jerusalem.muni.il/jer_sys/picture/atarim/site_form_atar_eng.asp?site_id=1010&pic_cat=4&icon_cat=6&york_cat=9&type_id=15...
Every now and then, a moment of pure kismet takes place that leaves Jewdar feeling all giddy: like Smurfette at a Smurf prom with all the Smurfs asking her to dance (except for those two Smurfs that share a mus...
At a time when our beloved army is forced to resort to ever more "desperate":http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20205033/ means to maintain a force which is increasingly "corpulent":http://www.boston.com/news/nation/a...
In a cyberworld populated with "pedophiles,":http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/2007/07/31/pedophile-s-blog-angers-parents.aspx "white supremacists":http://www.stormfront.org/forum/showthread....
As the airwaves are flooded with ads for "Brett Ratner's":http://defamer.com/hollywood/brett-ratner/ latest "meisterwerk,":http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/rush_hour/news/1648729/ we at Jewdar feel like the one ...