Author jewdar

Although some may imagine that the mark of true success is being mentioned in the _New York Times_, Jewdar has never been that impressed. How hard can it be? Be nominated by a major party to national office, ...

When Jewdar hears that someone is doing a humorous look at Jewish culture, we reach for our pistol.When we were informed that Carlos Mencia had done a Cultural Explorer piece on everyone's favorite semites, we ...

Gotham has been gaga over the word that Madonna has been canoodling with A-Rod. Now it's time for Jewdar to begin to feign interest, as word on the street is that A-Rod's quite-possibly-soon-to-be ex Cynthia i...

Jewdar has never found Denise Richards (above right, with quasi-marrano Neve Campbell) to be particularly hot. Still, one might imagine that were Jewdar to have a dream featuring her, some sort of forniculato...

Back in 1906, a ne'er do well Prussian cobbler assembled something resembling an officer's uniform, commandeered a handful of soldiers, and marched them off to the nearby town of Kopenick where he seized the to...

We at Jewdar were delighted to hear that some self-declared defender of Hinduism has taken it upon himself to take a stand against The Love Guru. According to Rajan Zed, the movie lampoons Hinduism and uses te...

Back in 2006, Juive au jus Alexandra Rosenfeld won Miss France and went on to take Miss Europe. As is usually the case, it takes a little while for French fashions to make their way across the Channel, but th...

Like most human beings, we know you are always eager to hear the latest about one or more of the Two Coreys. This just in (well, a few days ago): According to Corey Haim, Victoria Beckham was a lousy kisser. ...

Jewdar apologizes profusely for the delay in seeing You Don't Mess With the Zohan, but between Shabbos in New York, Shavuos in Bala Cynwyd, and the ER in Beth Israel Hospital (where, after a bed-jumping acciden...

We know we aren't supposed to gloat at the misfortune of others, and it's certainly possible that the Gazan smuggler who died when his tunnel collapsed was trying to bring in baby formula or insulin, but given ...

Jewdar has had misgivings about Agriprocessors since reading Postville a few years back, and the periodic hashgacha horror stories haven't helped heal the the hurt. On our better days, we've thought of boycot...

Harvey Herschel Korman died yesterday at the age of 81. We can honestly say that we can't remember ever seeing him do a role we didn't like: from the Great Gazoo to The Carol Burnett Show to, his appearances on...