May the Schwartz Hurry Up!
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...
Huckabee and Goliath?
What is with everyone, including Huckabee himself, referring to the Huckabee campaign in David and Goliath terms? Okay, maybe he doesn't have Mitt's millions or McCain's war record, but this guy has the religio...
Please Hammer, Don’t Hurt Them!
We recently said some fairly harsh things about Rabbi Joshua Hammerman's stupid comments about us and the Holocaust. At the time, we were convinced that Rabbi Hammerman was a smug, self-righteous jackass. We wo...
Eli Planning
Last summer I helped round up the cast of the 80s classic, The Last American Virgin, for a 25th anniversary screening at the New Beverly Cinema in Los Angeles. Writer/director Eli Roth, who has always praised L...
Barack Attah Adonai…
He may have pissed off the gays by "refusing" to take his picture with Gavin Newsom during the gay marriage media blitz, but Obama's hoping to swing the left coast Jew-vote today with ads in the Los...
Roper Dope
Last night, Welcome to the Captain premiered on CBS. On the one hand, it has Jeffrey Tambor playing a former TV writer-turned building manager named Saul Fish, an accountant named "Marty" played by a...
Give This Guy a Hand
I've long wondered about the true identity of one Rabbi Pinky Schmecklestein. Not that his commentaries on Torah readings are the biggest stitch, but apparently plenty of kosher kiddos follow his writings on ww...
Frank Insensitivity
The next time some guy with Ron Jeremy's facial hair tries to screw with Jewdar, he'd better bring his bitchin', bass-heavy, 1970's-style porno soundtrack. This past week, the Jewish Week ran an opinion piece b...
The Cloven People?
This just in: World Rabbinical Council rules that Jews can now eat ham.Via Onion Radio News ...
Passing a Stone
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...
_Heeb_ Storytelling Returns!
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 ...
Two-Point Conversion
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...
