Curb Your Enthusiasm goes Gotham. Producers say they're filming the last season in NYC. Hopefully L.D. won't get all Carrie Bradshaw and whore his way through midtown. (NY Magazine)
In 1967, as nearly half a million American troops fought in Vietnam, MIT linguistics professor Noam Chomsky wrote an essay for the New York Review of Books that derided his fellow intellectuals for standing...
In the last few weeks, the net has ODed on The Show About Nothing. When a re-cut trailer for the Susan Ross-George Costanza relationship went live, I didn't say anything. And I kept mum when Funny or Die posted...
For the last year, the Heeb office has been tortured by one particular YouTube vid. It's two seconds ripped from the 1:09 mark of a Tim & Eric sketch starring Zach Galifianakis as the asshole thespian, Tair...
To uncover the meaning of anti-Semitism today, Shamir gains remarkable access to Foxman and the ADL -- providing a portrait of the organization consisting not of Machiavellian opportunism, but of confusion -- nebbishes with the best of intentions.
In what appears to be the beginning of a great zombie flick, Israel is bulldozing a bunch of Jewish graves for a new hospital. The government ended protests by religious Jews by promising the Orthodox a percentage of movie royalties. (CNN)
schnorrer, shno'-rer
noun
(Yiddish)
a beggar or sponger
After stealing half a bottle of Scotch in one of Germany's finest hotels, the schnorrer rationalized that it was the least that he deserved even tho...
As many are doubtlessly aware, top spot at the Miss USA pageant went to our Ishmaelite cousin, Rima Fakih, from Michigan. Jewdar, of course, wishes Ms. Fakih (or can we say "Miss" in this context?) nothing ...