Passing a Stone
Normally, Jewdar gets miffed when confronted by de-Judaized television and film characters. In the case of ABC's new show Eli Stone, however, we're relieved. The idea that a high-powered lawyer named Eli Ston...
_Heeb_ Storytelling Returns!
Less than two weeks until the next edition of Heeb Storytelling hosted by Flight of the Conchords' Kristen Schaal (above right along with Heeb arts editor/Heeb Storytelling director Shana Liebman). Schall will ...
Two-Point Conversion
So Jewdar is walking down the street the other day, when we are confronted by a bus-stop ad for a film featuring not one, not two, but three Jewish lead actresses (and no, it wasn't Fiddler on the Roof II: The...
Urban Achiever
Unfortunately I can't seem to find a Goonies action figure to call my own. I had hoped that the powers-that-be at Mezco Toys would send me one for free after I gave them a juicy plug here on HQ. Apparently they...
Feline Führer
In other news from the world of Holocaust iconography, the German Green Party recently used an image of a cat that resembles Adolf Hitler on a poster that criticizes Germany's extreme-right parties. In response...
Blame it on Rio
If your image of Carnival in Rio is similar to the photo above, you're in for a rude and somewhat bizarre shock. This year, a group in Rio plans to include a Holocaust-themed float in the festivities. We at _...
Clubhouse Cafe: The _Heeb_ Review
Jewdarphiles have long counted on us to provide them with the cutting-edgiest commentary on all things Jewish and pop-culture. Sometimes, though, an issue arises that requires us to break from our customary bad...
_Cassandra’s Dream_: The _Heeb_ Review
By Karen Bookatz A dramatic overture by composer Philip Glass cues the opening scene of Woody Allen's latest effort, Cassandra's Dream. Like the director's past two films, Scoop and Match Point, CD is set in L...
Susie Essman at Heeb Storytelling
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Noa’s Arc
It all started with a bat mitzvah. HBO's latest drama, In Treatment, that is. The series (premiering tonight), about a psychotherapist (Gabriel Byrne) and his regular patients, is based on the Israeli hit Be' T...
Genital Mutilation
Mild nausea was generally the response I elicited last month from the Aliens That Look Like Genitalia movie roundup I did for _Maxim Online_. It's certainly not something bubbie and zadie would want to ha...
