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Ms. Taken

Insofar as _Ms._ Magazine is not _Heeb_ Magazine, Jewdar is not inclined to read it in the first place. However, now we are now tempted to get a subscription just so we can cancel it. Apparently, The American ...
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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...
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Man of the Year?

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...
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Giving Thanks

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 ...
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Eh, It’s a Living

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...
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Braying for Our Souls

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...
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Stalling for Time

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...
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Poison Ivy

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...
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Gossip Grill

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 ...
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Be Afraid of Shadows

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...
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But Will She Show Cleavage?

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...
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Do You Feel a Draft?

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...