For the past few years, sending out Kwanzaa cards has been perhaps my favorite holiday season ritual. As recently as three years ago, I would waltz into the local Barnes & Noble and be able to choose between nearly a dozen designs decorated with African-American families proudly wearing wearing red, black and green and lighting...

“Sarah Silverman”:http://www.heebmagazine.com/articles/view/20 graced the cover of our Sex Issue. “Jeremy Piven”:http://www.heebmagazine.com/articles/view/12 struck a pose for our Money Issue. “Jonah Hill”:http://www.heebmagazine.com/articles/view/103 did the deed for our Chosen Issue. That’s Owsley Owlbert above. No, he’s not our next cover boy. He’s a Mimobot, a USB flash drive designed by “Mimoco”:http://www.mimoco.com/. Even though he regularly goes for $49.95...

Not since Mandy Patinkin and Barbra “locked payis”:http://www.bjsmusic.com/Yentl15/ has there been a collaboration between Jewish legends even remotely approaching this one.The Master of the Universe must have listening to Jewdar’s prayers, because Adam Sandler (a legend because of the “The Hanukkah Song”), Judd Apatow (a legend because he employs actors who look like Jonah Hill),...

“Neil Diamond reveals”:http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20161660,00.html that President Kennedy’s daughter Caroline was the inspiration for his 40-year-old hit “Sweet Caroline.” No truth to the rumor that Jenna Bush inspired T-Pain and Yung Joc to record “Buy U A Drank (Shawty Snappin’),” currently “number one”:http://www.ifilm.com/video/2841698 in airplay on Billboard.

Who knew one month ago when England were “1-0 up against Russia”:http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/internationals/7047394.stm, that the key to their hopes of qualifying for Euro 2008 would ultimately lie in the hands of Israel. Yep, the country that birthed soccer greats such as George Best, Bobby Charlton and David Beckham are now relying on the skills of well,...

According to Ken Kurson, a top Giuliani aide, if Bill Clinton was considered America’s “first Black president,” then Giuliani would be the first “Jewish”:http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/11/14/rudy-would-be-first-jewis_n_72664.html one. While Giuliani did make an appearance on _Seinfeld_, and although one could argue that for years his comb-over served as a decent makeshift yarmulke, he screwed up a key component...

Singer-songwriter Jill Sobule (of “I Kissed a Girl” fame) has “announced a contest”:http://new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/jill_sobule/129/jesus-was-a-dreidel-spinner-a-video-contest to find the best music video for her holiday-themed “song”:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxDQ92h4Mgc “Jesus Was a Dreidel Spinner”. The winning video will appear on Jill’s site and right here on _Heebmagazine.com_, and will receive massive quantities of Internet fame. Send all entries to [email protected] by...

Many’s the time that Jewdar has leafed through a copy of _Martha Stewart Living_ and noted the sad efforts to include the Jews in the holiday craftwork. There, scattered about the pages and pages of Easter eggs and Christmas tzotchkes would be a lone little seder centerpiece or marzipan menorah. Who knows how many anal-retentive...

First, there was my pervy obsession over its “flyover state breast-feeding controversy”:http://www.heebmagazine.com/blog/view/326 that made news “more than once”:http://heebish.com/blog/view/353 (and not just in my pants). Now that “Andrew Cassese”:http://www.heebmagazine.com/articles/view/97, Wormser from _Revenge of the Nerds_ (and the _Heeb_ softball team’s starting “second basemen”:http://www.heebmagazine.com/blog/view/308), has been named a finalist in the search for Applebee’s next spokesperson, the...

An absolutely adorable young girl who was born with a parasitic twin attached to her pelvis is “about to undergo a 40-hour operation to save her life.”:http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=491757&in_page_id=1770 Little Lakshmi was born on the day of celebration for the Hindu godess Vishnu, who is depicted with four arms, leading many (including her mother, of course) to...

We don’t do many things ceremoniously, but this summer we ceremoniously called Zach Feuer the “art world wonder boy” in our “Kids Issue”:http://heebmagazine.com/issues/view/13. The piece isn’t available online, but Feuer is now showcasing a new exhibition by Aaron Spangler at his “Chelsea gallery”:http://www.lflgallery.com/ so you can judge for yourself if we’re full of shit. Consisting...

Last Friday, the _NY Times_ “covered”:http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/02/world/middleeast/02orthodox.html?_r=1&oref=slogin various quirky adaptations to modern life in Israel’s Orthodox community. One notable example is a religiously approved cell phone. What does it offer? Well, mostly restrictions. The phones can’t connect to the Internet, send text messages or take photos, plus “More than 10,000 numbers for phone sex, dating services...