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Four Minutes in Heaven with Bill Murray

Today began another of Chicago's vast tourism extravaganzas, the Air and Water Show. To kick off the vaguely warlike festivites, Bill Murray parachuted with Army team the Golden Knights, landing safely on North...
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People of the Nook

Lindsay Lohan, who was raised Catholic, is reportedly converting to Judaism to be closer to her girlfriend DJ Samantha Ronson.I'm sure this will give plenty of Jews an excuse to get their tzitzis in a bunch, bu...
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Crackedhead

Jewdar is not ashamed to admit that back in the day when we were addicted to Mad Magazine, we'd also take a taste of Cracked, Crazy and Sick when the real deal wasn't available. Still, while a dope fiend might...
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Michael Phelps Wins Gold Medal in Dickhead

As the world weighs in on whether Michael Phelps is the best Olympic athlete ever, I would like to weigh in that he is one of the biggest a-holes ever. Or, at least that's what many of us at his alma mater, the...
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Campbell Scoop

It was only a matter of time, we always said, before Glen Campbell (that's right, the Rhinestone Cowboy) converted to Judaism. Those robust chunks of chest hair, thick sideburns and obvious discomfort on a hors...
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End of the Tori

Back in some issue or another, Jewdar expressed our reservations about the new 90210 (among other things West Beverly's huge Iranian Jewish population seems to be represented by a character who's an Iranian Sci...
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Cock Tale

First New Orleans is hit by a hurricane, now, Louisiania has suffered another blow to it's unique cultural heritage--cockfighting has been banned. To be sure, we are not fans of the "sport," but we'...
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Who’s Your Dadi?

It seems like just yesterday that the big story at the Olympics was a hug shared by a Georgian and a Russian. Please queue the sappy intro music yet again as now an Iranian and an Israeli have shared a hug at t...