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Kristin Davis, the businesswoman "who supplied call girls for Eliot Spitzer," will announce her candidacy for governor of New York on March 1. And yes, the quote above was taken from Davis's own press...

(Video after the jump) Health care negotiations finally got Representative Anthony Weiner (D-NY) to freak out yesterday. Forced to resort to Yiddish to fully articulate his disgust, Weiner called the GOP a &quo...

Not only are braces officially taboo among the haredi these days, ultra-Orthodox Jewesses may face difficulty finding a salon to trim those bushy brows.Rabbi Yosef Elyashiv's ruling regarding braces was announc...

Official fall guy for the health care debacle, Rahm Emanuel, like the Jewish state, may be fighting recent criticism with a PR offensive, and he might even be throwing some colleagues under the bus. After hardc...

(click for larger image)In the spirit of total transparency, the idealists at Good.is have created an easy chart that breaks down American wealth by religious groups. Out of fifteen faiths -- including Buddhist...

The murder of Hamas's Mahmoud al-Mabhouh has become the most watched Mossad operation since Spielberg's Munich. Front page news in Israel, this story allows journalists everywhere to point their fingers at Isra...

(video after the jump) Palestinian protesters at the West Bank town of Bil'in are dressing up as those oppressed Na'vi from Avatar as part of their weekly demonstrations. Palestinians say this barrier is part o...

Much has been written of the amazing story of Ajami, but most hasn't been that concerned with the film itself, or the poor section of Jaffa it's named after. No, it's the "making of" Ajami that's captured every...

Jewish organizations recently condemned the iMussolini, the most fascist of killer iPhone apps. "This is an insult to the memory of all victims of Nazism and fascism," said Elan Steinberg of the Ameri...

Born Alex Bernstein and hailing from suburban Maryland, DJ Kool Jew has come a long way since his days back at Beth Shalom Hebrew School. "Even when I was in services, I was always humming, always dreaming of ...

Yesterday was International Holocaust Remembrance Day, a great opportunity for politicians to appeal, pander and, possibly, inspire. Haaretz reporter Gideon Levy called the day "a boom for Israeli propagan...