Hijinx
Comic artist Neil Kleid shows readers the truth behind the secret to our success.
Best Femmes Forever
Fanny Brice, Molly Picon and Theda Bara were pioneering Jewish stars of film's Silent and Golden Eras. We imagine them as BFFs in these gorgeous fashion photos by Doron Gild.
Things Fall Apart
It's easy to mistake Etgar Keret for light reading. With Keret, four pages is an epic tale—most of his stories weigh in at five or six paragraphs. But brevity and levity are not the same, and nowhere is this mo...
Joanna Angel: The _Heeb_ Interview
Ever since our office screening of Joanna Angel's latest DVD, Not Another Porn Movie, interest in the porn star's career has peaked among coworkers. We tracked down the impish Jewess (and cover girl for our Pho...
Umanic Panic
El Al was helpless when a riot broke out on its flight to Kiev on Sunday morning. Apparently, a group of Chasidim traveling to the grave of Rav Nachman in Uman became enraged when the flight started to show a f...
David vs. Goliath
After the success of The Passion of the Christ, critics forecasted a Second Coming of Christian blockbusters. Well, a funny thing happened on the way to the rapture. Eric Kohn investigates.
Twice Baked
Dave Itzkoff on the two Jewish guys from New Jersey who
created the funniest Asian-American characters in contemporary cinema.
created the funniest Asian-American characters in contemporary cinema.
Mittens, Anyone?
Somewhere in heaven, an angel is gently prying the rifle away from a pair of cold dead hands. ...
Devendra + Natalie?
The king of all things weirdo-folk, Devendra Banhart has been increasingly appearing on our jewdar lately. First, comes last year's doo-wop love song "Shabop Shalom" on Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyo...
Idol Chatter
Kelly Clarkson was recently caught on YouTube speaking some Hebrew, by which we mean wrapping her mouth (yikes) around some guttural sounds, one of which at least slightly resembled "shalom." Sure, sh...
Take the Money and Frum
Nineteen-year-old black hat Avraham Rotenberg was recently identified as the man who stormed a Lakewood, New Jersey jewelry store armed with a shot gun this past February, making off with two duffel bags of jew...
How Low Can You Go?
Big mazel to The Lowbrow Reader for coming out of its two-year hiatus with its sixth issue this week. I've personally been waiting for a new edition ever since I read its fake interview with Tiger Woods in whic...
