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February 7, 2008

More than 80 Gambino family mafiosos including Robert Epifania, a.k.a. "Bobby the Jew", were indicted today for pretty much every crime you can think of - murder, narcotics distribution, loansharking,...

Bitter Francaise

February 7, 2008

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This is just weird. Remember all that hooplah last year about Suite Francaise? Yeah, we didn't read it either, but we heard it was good. It was written by Irene Nemirovsky, a Ukrainian Jew living in France, dur...

May the Schwartz Hurry Up!

Brian Abrams

February 7, 2008

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The writer's strike has put every program in development on hold, but it's been a year and half since the cable network G4 announced it was developing Spaceballs: The Animated Series and all they have is a frig...

Huckabee and Goliath?

February 6, 2008

What is with everyone, including Huckabee himself, referring to the Huckabee campaign in David and Goliath terms? Okay, maybe he doesn't have Mitt's millions or McCain's war record, but this guy has the religio...

Please Hammer, Don’t Hurt Them!

jewdar

February 6, 2008

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We recently said some fairly harsh things about Rabbi Joshua Hammerman's stupid comments about us and the Holocaust. At the time, we were convinced that Rabbi Hammerman was a smug, self-righteous jackass. We wo...

Eli Planning

Brian Abrams

February 6, 2008

Last summer I helped round up the cast of the 80s classic, The Last American Virgin, for a 25th anniversary screening at the New Beverly Cinema in Los Angeles. Writer/director Eli Roth, who has always praised L...

Barack Attah Adonai…

February 5, 2008

He may have pissed off the gays by "refusing" to take his picture with Gavin Newsom during the gay marriage media blitz, but Obama's hoping to swing the left coast Jew-vote today with ads in the Los...

Roper Dope

jewdar

February 5, 2008

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Last night, Welcome to the Captain premiered on CBS. On the one hand, it has Jeffrey Tambor playing a former TV writer-turned building manager named Saul Fish, an accountant named "Marty" played by a...

Give This Guy a Hand

Brian Abrams

February 5, 2008

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I've long wondered about the true identity of one Rabbi Pinky Schmecklestein. Not that his commentaries on Torah readings are the biggest stitch, but apparently plenty of kosher kiddos follow his writings on ww...

Frank Insensitivity

jewdar

February 4, 2008

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The next time some guy with Ron Jeremy's facial hair tries to screw with Jewdar, he'd better bring his bitchin', bass-heavy, 1970's-style porno soundtrack. This past week, the Jewish Week ran an opinion piece b...

The Cloven People?

Yid Vicious

February 4, 2008