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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...
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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...
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_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 ...
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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...
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Urban Achiever

Unfortunately I can't seem to find a Goonies action figure to call my own. I had hoped that the powers-that-be at Mezco Toys would send me one for free after I gave them a juicy plug here on HQ. Apparently they...
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Feline Führer

In other news from the world of Holocaust iconography, the German Green Party recently used an image of a cat that resembles Adolf Hitler on a poster that criticizes Germany's extreme-right parties. In response...
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Blame it on Rio

If your image of Carnival in Rio is similar to the photo above, you're in for a rude and somewhat bizarre shock. This year, a group in Rio plans to include a Holocaust-themed float in the festivities. We at _...
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Clubhouse Cafe: The _Heeb_ Review

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...
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Noa’s Arc

It all started with a bat mitzvah. HBO's latest drama, In Treatment, that is. The series (premiering tonight), about a psychotherapist (Gabriel Byrne) and his regular patients, is based on the Israeli hit Be' T...