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WHERE HAVE YOU GONE, SANDY KOUFAX?
It's been 30 years since Sandy Koufax inspired Jewish pride among sports fans when he refused to pitch in the World Series on Yom Kippur. Since then, however, only a few athletes have been publicly celebrated as the heroes of a group better know for its doctors and lawyers. Allen Salkin takes a close look at a culture straining to beat back a stereotype that may be all too true.
Will Jon Stewart Let Jon Leibowitz Out of the Closet?
Yesterday on Slate.com, Ron Rosenbaum called upon Jon Stewart to end the "WASP-ification" of Jewish last names by changing his back to, Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz. Will The Daily Show's host heed the c...
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What Would Barbra Do? Funny Girl Singalong (After Elton)An Open Letter to Jon Stewart - Bring Back Leibowitz! (Slate)LOL…Making Fun of the Nazis (DeadDog) Start a Lie: Anti-Bottled Water Game Steps Up Ads With ...
Casting Hopefuls for _The Hobbit_
Last weekend at Comic-Con in San Diego, Lord of the Rings' Peter Jackson said he would be submitting a script for The Hobbit to Warner Bros. in the coming weeks.As soon as Jackson gets the green light, he will ...
Jews Arrested–Anti-Semitism _Obviously_ the Cause
Let the religious outrage begin. After last week's FBI crackdown following a two-year corruption and international money-laundering investigation (in which super influential Brooklyn rabbi, Saul Kassin, was pin...
The Brother of Matisyahu Speaks
(Video after the jump) While conducting research for our Music Issue, we discovered that Hasidic reggae sensation Matisyahu has a long lost brother. Recently, the musician's bro sat down with Heeb for his first...
Jew Fro Hunting at Pitchfork
Pitchfork is the place where all the alternative folk come out to play/experiment with new fashions. This year, dudes took a page from Andy Samberg's book and seriously rocked the Jew fro. Check out our collect...
MacGruber The Movie: Will It Blow Up or Just Blow?
By Kammie Mann Watching Will Forte blow himself up each week in one minute MacGruber skits on Saturday Night Live is entertaining, but I think director Jorma Taccone, one third of the comedy trio The Lonely Isl...
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Most Pairs Of Glasses Worn At Once (URDB) Germany sells soft drinks by comparing them to semen. (Blog of Hilarity)Councilman Fired Because Wife's a Porn Star (Film Drunk) How to Ruin a Yoga Class (Viceland) How...
You Read It Here First
If The New York Times piece on Hamas' foray into the film industry ("Hamas Shifts From Rockets to Public Relations")seems familiar, it's because you read itearlier this week in Jewdar. That's right, J...
The Upper West Side “Singles Crisis”
The new documentary Unattached explores the predicament of aging 20-year-old single women in the Upper West Side's Modern Orthodox community failing to find a match. This "plague" is causing major anx...
