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Let’s Play Two!

What do Rocky and the history of the Jewish people have in common? No, the answer is not "_pain_,":http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1TxiVhrkZA as Clubber Lang might assert. The answer is that both will be honore...
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Diamond Days Fest: Day Three

If you enjoy hanging out with wannabes from the burbs making their annual "isn't Brooklyn cool?" pilgrimage, or being sold cell-phone subscriptions, or Budweiser (as opposed to our beer sponsor, "Brooklyn Brewe...
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Iranian Hostage Crisis

While we don't think its likely to act as methadone for our unhealthy addiction to "Rise of Nations":http://www.microsoft.com/games/riseofnations/, we at Jewdar are tickled pink to hear about the new "video gam...
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Weekly Learning

In honor of the release of the much-anticipated "iPhone":http://www.apple.com/iphone/ (hailed as a revolutionary gadget that will change the face of electronics), this week's roundup pays homage to all the thin...
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Finkelstein’s Monster

Stop eating for Norman Finkelstein? Yesterday, "students":http://chronicle.com/news/article/2562/student-will-begin-hunger-strike-in-support-of-depaul-professors-denied-tenure at DePaul began a hunger strike pr...
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Who’s Afraid of Hillary Clinton?

A recent Forbes online character poll has shown that "Hillary Clinton is the creepiest candidate":http://www.nypost.com/seven/06192007/news/nationalnews/hilly_gives_folks_willies_nationalnews_ian_bishop.htm. Th...
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Boys 2 Men?

I can't even begin to estimate how many people have asked me to introduce them to the Beastie Boys since we "interviewed and photo'd them back in 2003":http://www.heebmagazine.com/articles/view/43. One guy want...
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Hair Club For Mice

"Researches out of Philadelphia":http://www.medpagetoday.com/Surgery/GeneralSurgery/tb/5674 show that mice can regenerate hair follicles. We can only hope that this will lead to a time when middle-aged men are ...
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Lizzy Caplan: The _Heeb_ Interview

by Malina Saval CBS will announce it's fall lineup tomorrow and we've got our fingers crossed that "_The Class_,":http://www.cbs.com/primetime/the_class/about.shtml starring Lizzy Caplan, will be picked up. ...
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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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Miss America Flip-Flops

I've long wondered what it is that the reigning Miss America does once her bouquet of roses wilts and the other contestants have gone home to their trailers and burger-flipping boyfriends. I always kind of pic...