American I-Dull
Tonight, the season finale of American Idol Season 10 pits two young country singers Scotty McCreery against Lauren Alaina. Better yet, who cares.
An open letter to Lady Gaga
You are talking to an infant that does not even exist yet, and you are saying stuff about washing its non-existent feet with your hair and being a prostitute wench. And, to be honest, it's making me uncomfortable.
Two Synagogues, Two Burn Victims
How much disrespect can upstanding community members possibly be expected to suffer before they reach for the flame thrower?
Urban Kvetch: Dirty Yoga Studios
There's a reason I'm not practicing at an ashram in India.
Obama’s Sin: An Error in Syntax
Forget about being able to follow a whole sentence; Obama’s critics couldn’t even make it through a whole clause.
CHOSEN MUSIC: DALE EARNHARDT, JR. JR.
What does Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. have that Dale Earnhardt Jr. doesn't? A Jew named Epstein and some killer pop songs.
Links for the Disappearing Face of New York
The disappearing face of NYC, cancer is punk, Rebecca Schiffman interview and Hitchcock cover.
Philip Roth Wins Man Booker Despite Sitting on Our Faces
“It’s as though he’s sitting on your face and you can’t breathe...I don’t rate him as a writer at all,” says the disgruntled Man Booker juror who dissented on Philip Roth's win.
No Mas, Abbas
Abbas may have gotten his PhD in History, but work like this reminds Jewdar why Oriental College in Moscow was considered a party school.
Filmmaker Lars von Trier was a Jew, Understands Hitler (UPDATED x2 with Video)
Someone gave Lars von Trier a microphone at Cannes and the results were offensive and hilarious, everything you'd expect from the Danish auteur.
An American in England
Through existential self-pity, I resurrected my inflamed tonsils with Dickensian grandeur – and I imagined – or, I should say, tried to imagine – how happy I'd have been to be born (and, soon enough, died) a Briton.
