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Jim Love You Long Time

In May's issue of _GQ_, Jim Nelson uses the phrase "Asian whores" twice in his editor's letter, and is "getting hell for it":http://www.nypost.com/seven/05142007/gossip/pagesix/gq_editor_ripped_for_slur_pagesix...
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Riddle of the Minx

Miriam Minx is not a Jewish porn star. She's the femme fatale in "this bizarre, yet oddly engrossing branding campaign":http://www.grolschgardens.com/ from Dutch beer company "Grolsch.":http://www.grolsch.com/ ...
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What We Can Learn From Akon

By now, you've heard about Verizon Wireless pulling its sponsorship from the Gwen Stefani tour because her opening act, Akon, simulated some truly nasty dirty dancing on stage with a Trinidadian girl in front o...
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Romney Hearts Dinosaurs

He may be pro-life, anti-gay marriage and, um... a "Mormon":http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaUTzDQoCng&mode=related&search=/, but at least Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney believes in "evolution":h...
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Piercing Truths

This week, _Nerve.com's_ Katie Liederman powwows with four body piercers to explore some of the "21st Century's more confounding sexual issues":http://www.nerve.com/regulars/sexadvicefrom/piercers/. Among her m...
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Moses vs. Satan

While Christopher Hitchens is picking a fight with the Almighty in his new book "_God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything_":http://nymag.com/arts/books/features/31244/, the folks over at Adult Swim ar...
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Look Who’s Got a Woody

You may remember _Heeb_ rabbinic authority "Berel B":http://myspace.com/berel helping us hijack the "mitzvah tank.":http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nG4pG-NBJdE Well, his latest semitic shenanigans can be seen at...
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Diamonds and Spoils

This week's _New York_ Magazine nods at billionaire "Lev Leviev":http://nymag.com/news/intelligencer/31549/, a Russian/Israeli Lubavitcher diamond merchant who just bought the New York Times building. This guy ...
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Viva La Sarkozy?

We all know that France holds one of the more troubled Jewish populations in the Western world (as seen "here":http://www.ejpress.org/article/16405, "here":http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/world/20070419-0943...
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Jews For Colbert

After wrestling with my weighty conscience for weeks, I am compelled to speak out on behalf of a fringe-yet-burgeoning community. A group of naysayers that feels a deep-rooted guilt over preferring Stephen Colb...
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Welcome to the Family

Michael Chabon, recently labeled "anti-Semitic":http://www.jossip.com/gossip/michael-chabon/jewish-writer-michael-chabon-puts-on-a-happy-punim-after-being-branded-an-antisemitic-20070503.php by _The New York Po...