Since we were in mourning for most of 2007, Jewdar wasn't able to listen to music, and now that we can, it's a little like coming out of a cryogenic freeze. "Are the kids still listening to Neil Sedaka?&q...
This is just weird. Remember all that hooplah last year about Suite Francaise? Yeah, we didn't read it either, but we heard it was good. It was written by Irene Nemirovsky, a Ukrainian Jew living in France, dur...
The writer's strike has put every program in development on hold, but it's been a year and half since the cable network G4 announced it was developing Spaceballs: The Animated Series and all they have is a frig...
Normally, Jewdar gets miffed when confronted by de-Judaized television and film characters. In the case of ABC's new show Eli Stone, however, we're relieved. The idea that a high-powered lawyer named Eli Ston...
Less than two weeks until the next edition of Heeb Storytelling hosted by Flight of the Conchords' Kristen Schaal (above right along with Heeb arts editor/Heeb Storytelling director Shana Liebman). Schall will ...
So Jewdar is walking down the street the other day, when we are confronted by a bus-stop ad for a film featuring not one, not two, but three Jewish lead actresses (and no, it wasn't Fiddler on the Roof II: The...
Jewdarphiles have long counted on us to provide them with the cutting-edgiest commentary on all things Jewish and pop-culture. Sometimes, though, an issue arises that requires us to break from our customary bad...
Thursday was the first yahrzeit of Jewdar's father. For those who are unfamiliar with Jewish mourning customs (and you should remain unfamiliar, God willing), you can't listen to music for the year after the d...
Orthodox Stance, Jason Hutt's documentary about Dmitriy Salita, the professional boxer and observant Jew from Brooklyn, does not want to just be a gefilte fish-out-of-water story, but unfortunately, it offers l...
By Montana Leonard
When I first heard the title of Michael Showalter's first comedy album, I thought it might be a reference to Katz's Delicatessen, but "_Sandwiches & Cats_":http://www.amazon.com/Sandwiches...
*Rhymes With "Chagall"*
Jewdar has long followed the career of martial artist, action star, PETAphile, energy drink entrepreneur, environmentalist, musician, reincarnation of a Tibetan lama and all-around awes...