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The Synagogue as Vaudeville

Rick Lemberg, a 5 foot 7, 47-year-old ex-stockbroker, might've been held up at the metal detector at his San Jose, CA synagogue last Sunday. You see, he was there to entertain the congregation with a virtuosic ...
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Schmairborne

Ah, Airborne. Your mother has told you about it, your friends have explained to you that it was created by a teacher who was tired of her snot-nosed students getting her sick (since when did elementary school t...
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Bill’s Due

We at Jewdar know that many would like nothing better than to bask in the warm glow of certainty that the conservative movement is chock full of slavering anti-Semites. Fortunately for the Jews (if not for the...
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Leafing Egypt

Hebrew University professor Benny Shanon believes that Moses was seriously fucked up on Mount Sinai. According to his theory, the biblical beard likely ingested a chemical from a couple desert plants that toda...
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Paglia Attacks!

In this week's installment of WTF items, Camille Paglia gives an interview to reputable news outlet US Weekly in response to Hillary Clinton's 60 Minutes appearance.<!--break--> Here at Heeb we thoroughly...
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Sarah Haters

So I know it's incredibly lame to blog about a blog, but no fewer than 10 people have raved to me about Stuff White People Like in the last couple of weeks so I finally checked it out. I guess it's sort of funn...
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Call of the Wael

We don't blame Holocaust hoaxer Monique de Wael for making up the outlandish tale of her survival during the Holocaust that became a best-selling memoir. She, after all, is clearly deranged, and one may expect ...
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Ritual Slaughter

I'm not alone in hoping to see a better Jewish athlete than Shawn Green in my lifetime, but when the talented Orthodox Jewish boxer from Brooklyn Dmitriy Salita destroyed Fabian Luque (his over-matched, love-ha...
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Wear and Peace

In an eloquent answer to the keffiyeh (which Urban Outfitters once sold as an "anti-war scarf") Dana Arbib, guest design director for our Kids Issue, and her friend Farah Malik have created A Peace Tr...
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Bad Trip

If you thought that the Brady's Hawaiian vacation was fraught with spills and chills, you ain't seen nothing. Apparently, the latest trend in vacationing is trips to the sites of great human tragedies. Now, w...
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Kosher Curry

Is Natalie Portman making a concerted effort to get steamier or is it just me? Not that I'm complaining—that good vegetarian next door routine was getting tired. The Namesake director Mira Nair is making anothe...
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Who’s the Mack?

Through the ages, Man has looked to the heavens, seeking guidance on this question. Now, at long last, we have an answer: Nicholas Sarkozy. What earns 2nd degree Mischling Sarko this honor? The lovely and talen...