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The Jewkbox Presents: The Coathangers

Coming from the same neck of the woods as the Black Lips and Deerhunter, The Coathangers have a penchant for playing dirt-stained garage rock. The all-girl band also shares some of the weird jerky sensibilities...
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Did _Heeb_ Promo Video Inspire DIY Circumcision?

After trimming his toes nails, a British man decided to keep on clipping and set to work on his foreskin. What made him snip his schmeckle? Was he self-conscious after the boys in the locker room teased him ab...
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Ricky Gervais Takes on Hitler

In anticipation of Ricky Gervais' new film, The Invention of Lying, starring Jonah Hill, Jennifer Garner, and Rob Lowe, we thought it was time to revisit our favorite sketch by the ex-Office star. In the clip...
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Read, Then Shower

Jewdar's Woman of Valor Award (which is saying something, seeing as how we are writing this from the Land of Israel, replete as it is with female Jewish soldiers, policewomen, and the ghost of Golda Meir) goes ...
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Unlucky Louie Anderson Is Still Alive

Thankfully, Louie Anderson did not succumb to a gastric bypass gone wrong, as was erroneously reported last week. (After Michael Jackson, Farrah Fawcett and Ed McMahon kicked it, I had no more energy to mourn.)...
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Franken Wins Senate Race/Jew-Off

After a long battle in court--238 days to be exact--Stuart Smalley, a.k.a. Al Franken, finally won the 2008 Minnesota Senate race sending rival Jew and Republican incumbent Norm Coleman home without an office. ...
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Daily Links

How designer--Albino Animals (OMG Blog) Kate Hudson: Nympho Ass & White Trash Hair (Agent Bedhead)Tee of the Day: "IOWA: Cooler than California since 2009" (The Daily What)Babies with Old Lady Names (Celeb ...
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Gay Jews in Poland, Who Knew?

Warsaw's mostly ambivalent Jewish community unintentionally joined the progressive map when Rabbi Aaron Katz, a gay man with a Hollywood producer partner, became their new spiritual advisor. Since it's hard to ...