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By Ethan Michaeli One week has gone by since I saw the protests in Postville, and I can't forget the tiny woman wearing an electronic monitoring bracelet on her ankle. She was pushing a stroller at the head of ...

By Nadine Levyfield High in the hills of the Himalayas, recently discharged Israeli soldiers swing lazily on hammocks, stoned out of their minds on whatever they can get their hands on. In the thick sand of the...

First Heath Ledger dies. Then Christian Bale assaults his sister and mother. Yesterday Morgan Freeman was involved in a serious car crash. Coincidence? Or did Tom Cruise cast some diabolical, scientological sp...

Jewdar would like to extend condolences to the family of Alexander Isaevich Solzhenitsyn, a man whom we always considered both a great writer and a man of tremendous courage. Solzhenitsyn's personal odyssey ...

Hold the wafers and wine. Jesus now comes in a new flavor-- cheesy. Opening a bag of Cheetos was a religious experience for a woman in High, Ridge, Missouri, last week when she discovered a puffed cheese piece ...

Four modern-day gladiators do battle for the gold (a lifetime supply of Gold's mustard), beginning on August 8, 2008 right here on _Heebmagazine.com_. ...

The Jewish role in the comic book industry needs no elaboration here. Mostly, though, it's been an American affair, with the occasional entry from an English 'Eeb like Neil Gaiman. Now, at last, our country ...

It's been a hundred years since the Chicago Cubs won the World Series--and four months since we boldly predicted (who says we don't take important editorial stands?) that this would be the year the drought woul...

Manischewitz maniacs rejoice: Tam Tam crackers are back on the shelves after what the New York Times called "the great Tam Tam shortage of 2008." This year, the Newark-based facility that produces the...

Jewdar joins with much of the Jewish world in greeting Ehud Olmert's recently announced decision to step down with a huge sigh of relief. To be sure, we were considerably more sanguine when he took office in ...

Ever since Barack Obama's prayer was removed from the Wailing Wall by a pudgy yeshiva student it has been the cause of nonstop controversy: "How could anyone stoop so low as to remove it?," "How could a ne...

With so much drama in the digital world these days (especially this week's Scrabulous crisis), it pains me to hear that some kids who refer to themselves as the "Jewish Internet Defense Force" hacked...