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...
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...
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...
So Sue Me
You may know Jeff B. Cohen from his turn as Chunk in The Goonies, though these days the retired child actor hardly ever performs the truffle shuffle for his friends or ransacks damp cellars for ice cream. Now a...
The Vindication of Steve Bartman
A startling revelation comes at this, the beginning of the 2008 major league baseball season: Steve Bartman, the infamous Cub fan who lunged after a foul ball that many Wrigley-faithful believed would have been...
Hat Power
You know it's getting close to Passover when the Associated Press starts running culturally-inclusive stories about yarmulke fashion. According to the story, now sports logos and and television characters routi...
Milton Burlesque
Jewdar's incredible devotion to the faith of our fathers prohibits us from viewing such things as burlesque (on the other hand, we do get to have concubines and smite Amalekites, so we still come out ahead in o...
SXSW Recap, Part III
I know I promised to post this final installment yesterday, but SXSW is an exhausting enough experience that it genuinely affects the productivity of the whole following week. Frankly put, four days of constant...
Bombs, Obama and Rock & Roll
Straight from the mind of the pop genius who brought us such gems as "I Hate Israel" and "Hey People, It Was Only a Tower" comes the campaign tribute Obama doesn't want anyone to hear: "...
