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Beat Down

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...
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Genital Mutilation

Mild nausea was generally the response I elicited last month from the Aliens That Look Like Genitalia movie roundup I did for _Maxim Online_.  It's certainly not something bubbie and zadie would want to ha...
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Bundle of Goy

Big mazel, as they say in the music biz (you can tell Jewdar is an entertainment industry insider because we use words like "biz"), to Jordan Bratman and Christina Aguilera on the ceremonial snipping of their son.
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Caught Red-Headed

Radar Online's The Ethnicist asks C. H. Dalton, the author of _A Practical Guide to Racism_, about the idea that Jews are cursed with curly, unmanageable red locks. According to Dalton, this is "one of the...
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Dead Ringer

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...
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Wise Crack

Amy Winehouse's parents Mitch (above) and Janis come to the rescue and check their 24-year old daughter into rehab....
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Bigmouth Strikes Again

Sure, al Qaeda is getting stronger, missiles are being fired from Gaza and worldwide financial catastrophe looms, but what's the deal with Jewish women and oral sex? Well, apparently we're not the only ones st...
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Something Smells Fishy

In a thousand years, will Heeb be remembered for its delightful prose or tasty roe? Yes, it seems that "Heeb," the sandwich, may be surpassing Heeb, the magazine, as a cultural touchstone. Last month,...
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Bobby Fischer Loses Final Game

Chess prodigy, Icelandic citizen, anti-Semite (and half-Jew) Bobby Fischer has passed away. To reminisce about his epic showdown with Soviet Boris Spassky, check out the wikipedia "entry":http://en.wikipedia.or...