Author joshua neuman

Hanging on the wall of my room when I was a kid was Nike's "Ice Man" poster--San Antonio Spurs legend, George Gervin wearing a silver jumpsuit and sitting on an icy throne. There was "Chocolate Thunder," which ...

Many have been up and arms over our recent photo of Roseanne Barr as a "Nazi domestic goddess" in our Germany Issue, questioning how, as Jews, we could ever find any humor in such a subject. When I hear such so...

On Thursday night, when NBA Commissioner David Stern approached the podium to announce the first-round draft pick of the Sacramento Kings, he paused. Normally, this might mean that the Teaneck, New Jersey, nati...

After an 82 game season, the first round of the playoffs, conference semi-finals and conference finals, the dream matchup that everyone has been talking about finally became a reality when the Orlando Magic kno...

Last night, LeBron James and the Cavaliers postponed Stan Van Gundy's march to NBA superstardom by beating the Orlando Magic 112-102. Van Gundy's Magic still lead the best of seven series three-to-two and have ...

Though the Denver Nuggets evened up the Western Conference Finals with the Los Angeles Lakers last night and the Orlando Magic pulled ahead of the Cleveland Cavaliers on Sunday, it seems pretty much a forgone c...

Well over 30 years ago, Woody Allen started representing the neurotic, Jewish New Yorker on the big screen. Whether it was Virgil Starkwell robbing a bank with a "gub" (Take the Money and Run), Miles Monroe...

Just before Passover, our good friend Josh Tupper at Russ & Daughters appeared on the Martha Stewart Show to tout the now famous "Super Heeb" sandwich. Even before it was called the Super Heeb, I ...

On a segment on last week's Colbert Report, Colbert constructed a joke in which Mahmoud Ahmadinejad endorsed Streit's Matzah, claiming "Even I can't deny it's delicious!" (See above left)When I first ...

We're back at MBar in Hollywood with 7-minute Jewish stories by Joanna Angel, Lizzy Cooperman, Michael Goldstein, Evan Kleiman, Jon Korn, Ben Kronberg and the accordion playing of Adam Shenkman. The eve...