Author jewdar

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 ...

We confess to not having been big fans of Martin Buber when we read him in grad school. But the other night, we had a super-moving "I-Thou":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_and_Thou moment. Flashback to a month a...

It is not our desire to venture out of the warm, nurturing embrace of the entertainment world, but "David Brooks'":http://select.nytimes.com/2007/07/27/opinion/27brooks.html?_r=1&hp&oref=login piece in the _Tim...

After the last few thousand years, it's a nice change of pace for something good to happen on "Tisha b'Av":http://www.ou.org/yerushalayim/tishabav/tishabav.html: "Ward Churchill":http://english.aljazeera.net/NR...

While we don't think its likely to act as methadone for our unhealthy addiction to "Rise of Nations":http://www.microsoft.com/games/riseofnations/, we at Jewdar are tickled pink to hear about the new "video gam...

Sometimes, fate drops in our laps a lesson about the facts of life of veritably "Thickean":http://www.stlyrics.com/lyrics/televisiontvthemelyrics-80s90s/thefactsoflife.htm proportions. Yesterday brought us news...

In the spirit of "Sammy Davis, Jr.":http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,826061,00.html, we at Jewdar are inclined to turn a blind eye to politics. But when Jewish control of Hollywood is threatened...

While as a rule, what goes on in Jewdar's home stays in Jewdar's home, the missus and I have had a contretemps and now, as per the rules of reality TV, leave it up to you, the audience, to decide the outcome. I...

Readers of Jewdar know us as the very Dorian Gray-like picture of moderation and self control, so we hope we don't disappoint overmuch to confess that we have a monkey on our backs that would take the likes of ...

To all of my fans who have been desperately seeking sustenance from my customary _joie de vivresection_ of all things entertaining, I must apologize for my absence, but I have recently suffered the loss of a lo...

It has long been noted (okay, by me, but I have been ranting about it for a while) that the hospital on ER must be the only one in Chicago without a Jewish doctor. Apologists for the hospital's strangely discr...