Mazel Tov to Ted & Gracie!
In addition to humidity and the perpetual sound of construction, love is in the air in New York City.
Heebonics: Schnorrer
schnorrer, shno’-rer noun (Yiddish) a beggar or sponger After stealing half a bottle of Scotch in one of Germany’s finest hotels, the schnorrer rationalized that it was the least that he deserved even though his family experienced WWII from Fort Worth, Texas.
Haiku Jews: Con Man Glenn Beck Gets Roasted
Mik Moore, co-founder of the Great Schlep, the 2008 initiative that encouraged young Jews to visit their grandparents in Florida and encourage them to vote for Obama, is at it again. This time, his target is Glenn Beck who’s recently gone bonkers claiming that religious groups who preach "social justice" and "economic justice" betray deep-seated...
Poles Fail to Show Their Metal: Hock Auschwitz Sign
The "Arbeit Macht Frei" sign hanging over the entrance to Auschwitz has been stolen. According to AFP, former Polish President Lech Walesa decried the theft of the sign and said he hoped it was only "a sick joke by scrap-metal thieves who didn’t know what they were doing." Way to unload the de facto icon...
Gratuitous Jewess: Trixie Minx
In an effort to further your appreciation of the richness and renewed vitality of Jewish life among young people today, we give you the first in a new installment, which we have aptly titled, “Gratuitous Jewess.” The first in our series is Ms. Trixie Minx, a Jewish burlesque performer based New Orleans. A proud member...
Donna Feldman Cover Completes German Reconciliation With Terrible Past
Last year, she posed as "Miss Shvat" in the first-ever Jewish swimsuit calendar, this year she’s on the cover of November’s edition of Maxim Germany. Though you might like her a lot better with a copy of Portnoy’s Complaint in her hands, you’ve got to admit, no one works the Jewish sex symbol thing quite...
Steven Spielberg, Take a Meeting With Sebastian Silva While You Still Can!
(Watch the Trailer After the Jump) Sebastian Silva’s Sundance award-winning feature The Maid is now playing in select theaters throughout the U.S. and garnering more and more critical praise from the most discerning of critics. It’s unfortunate that the Chilean government did not nominate the film to represent the nation in the Best Foreign Film...
Piven’s Ex-Assistant Calls “Bullshit” on Mercury Poisoning
Now that Jeremy Piven’s fishy tale is safely off the hook–an arbitrator ruled in Piven’s favor in the dispute with the producers of Broadway’s Speed-the-Plow over his departure from the play–I suppose it won’t hurt to reveal what I heard. Last year, around the same time that Piven claimed that mercury poisoning forced him to...
New York Yankees Acquire Jew: Now Even More Hated
We might make fun of Jews obsessed with Jews in professional sports, but we’re not immune from the affliction. From the Twitter of ESPN and NY Times baseball analyst Tyler Kepner: The New York Yankees have acquired Colorado Rockies pitcher Jason Hirsh, making him poised to be the first Jew to don pinstripes (excluding front...
Exclusive Interview: Marcy Playground, One Time Whore of The Music Industry
By Jeremy Williams Remember that song “Sex and Candy” from, like, 1997? Of course you do—it was on such heavy rotation that it’s pretty much burned into the hippocampus (watch the video after the jump). Well, get ready—they’re making a comeback (hopefully), this time with a new drummer. Shlomi Lavie is a former resident of...
The IMDB of Jewish Film Launches Today
By J. Gefiltefish Today makes the launch of the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival’s New Media Initiative. Backed by Stephen Spielberg’s Righteous Persons Foundation, along with the Charles H. Revson Foundation, the New Media Initiative (to be renamed later), will be one of the largest online resources for Jewish film in the world—almost like the...
