For the past month or so, I've been pretty obsessed with Chatroulette.com, and I'm not the only one. The site that randomly assigns you to a chat partner by way of web cam is visited frequently by derelict este...
From everything I can ascertain, TED is a meeting place for many of the most provocative and prophetic voices in America today. But that's not my problem. My problem is with these pretentious, out-of-work,...
(video after the jump)Israeli model Esti Ginzburg is in the news for not wiggling her way out of her country's mandatory military service. ("Unlike other Israeli celebrities," according to the bitchy ...
Boston businessman Larry Baras hit it big with his "UnHoley Bagel." (A bagel that comes pre-stuffed with cream cheese. Pure genius.) And with his bagel cash, Baras went on to realize an even more improbabl...
Don't get us wrong. Jewdar has been subscribing to The Forward for a long time. There's no shortage of good stuff in there that you can't get anywhere else (apparently, paying your writers a living wage brings ...
When critics reference our generation's most influential comedic forces, you always hear a tired litany of the same names (enough with the Woody Allen already). But there's a gentle giant among Hollywood's humo...
Every now and then something comes across the Jewdar desk that leaves us flummoxed. Latest on the list isKabbalah Vodka. According to what we've been able to ascertain, a Russian company called "EZ Protoco...
Update: The "Arbeit Macht Frei" sign has been recovered. Five men have been detained for the theft and it sounds like they stole it for financial reasons. Though an investigation is underway, it's sti...
Reading Abby Sher's memoir Amen, Amen, Amen often feels like watching an M. Night Shyamalan movie—a haunting magical power forever looming just below the surface. She chronicles a bout with mental illness that ...
Art Basel, the biggest, most hedonistic art fair of the year, opens today in sunny Miami Beach. It's famous for the festivities, celebrity appearances and debauchery. In anticipation of the mayhem, we sat down ...
While we all remember President Bill Clinton's scandalous poking of Monica Lewinsky, a new Jew has entered the family circle, and it's NOT Joe Lieberman.Over the Thanksgiving Holiday, when denomination and mode...
It's the Middle East's most vital commodity—wars have been fought over it, and some would say it's more precious than the blood that continues to be spilled in its name. We're talking about oil, right? Wrong. T...