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By the Rivers of Blah-Bylon

Matisyahu, a sub-Weird Al novelty music act, has begun his eight-part series of Chanukkah shows here in NYC. The series is called the "Festival of Lights," and each night of the holiday, he will perfo...
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Mary Kate Almost Bought a Menorah

While we all scale back on our holiday spending, it turns out that Mary Kate Olsen is just like us! According to the New York Post, MK is loving her some sale. In MK's world "the recession" is a less ...
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Creepy Christmas Online Film Festival

Glass Eye Pix and artist Beck Underwood have the perfect antidote to the Christmas Blues: The Creepy Christmas online film festival. Twenty-five moviemakers created short Christmas horror movies, one released p...
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Linguistic CONstruction

Lord knows Jewdar doesn't want to do this, but it is Hanukkah, so Dreidel Hustler, don't say we didn't get you anything: "Bernie Madoff (above) really tushy-shtupped the Jewish community." And now, i...
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Sderotten

Now that our good friends in Hamas have announced an end to the "truce" and started to bombard Sderot again, Jewdar wants to voice our support for a recent proposal by a Likud MK. Gilad Erdan suggeste...
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The Jeremy Piven Mercury Mystery

After weeks of obsessively chatting about being on Broadway, Jeremy Piven has suddenly dropped out of David Mamet's Speed the Plow, citing high levels of mercury in his system and his doctors ordering him to pu...
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Photographer Zoe Strauss: The _Heeb_ Interview

Since picking up a camera at age 30, Zoe Strauss has created her own brand of candid portraiture. Roaming the streets of South Philadelphia, where she was born and raised, Strauss reveals the spirit of the area...
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Sack Religious

An English woman has been asked to take down the Christmas lights and decorations that adorn the exterior of her family's home. The explanation given by the uniformed housing worker who made the request: The or...
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Baby Hitler Denied Cake

Adolf Hitler Campbell's daddy is demanding that a New Jersey supermarket write his son's full name on a birthday cake. The New Jersey ShopeRite said nein to the request, but a Wal-Mart in Pennsylvania was more,...