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_American Teen_: The _Heeb_ Review

By Julia Young American Teen, the new documentary from Academy Award nominee Nanette Burstein, follows the lives of five teens in their senior year of High School in Warsaw, Indiana. One-by-one, we meet the joc...
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News Groper

Recently the boys down at the General Authority for Islamic Affairs and Endowments declared that using your neighbor's wi-fi without permission is a fatwa, as a "Muslim's property is not for the taking unl...
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Obamaka

We at Jewdar were delighted as usual by the spectacle of another gentile in a yarmulke, but apparently, not everyone is as thrilled. The McCain campaign took the opportunity to zing Obama for his appearance at...
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Paparazzi Chic

Michael Kimmelman discusses contemporary Germany's fraught relationship with celebrity in his preview of the photo exhibit "Pigozzi and the Paparazzi" at the Helmut Newton Foundation in Berlin. Read N...
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Six-String For Sale

In September, the Fame Bureau in London is scheduled to auction off one of Jimi Hendrix's famed Fender Stratocasters, but it's kind of a surprise that it's only estimated to be worth around one million dollars....
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Diamond Days Hits Oakland

Our annual Diamond Days Fest begins on Thursday, July 17 at the Mama Buzz Cafe and the Ghost Town Gallery in Oakland, CA. We've been getting a ton of questions about the fest, so we figured we'd just include t...
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Calendar Gall

Some greasy "industry blogger" has been talking smack about (Miss Shvat) Donna Feldman, who plugged her appearance in our swimsuit calendar on Fox's Red Eye last week. We wouldn't be so offended if his own a...
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_Heeb_ Summer Gadget Review

David Martel has appeared on NBC 4's Your LA as well as Tom Green's live web show, however, we met him in a kiddie pool filled with gefilte fish at the _Heeb_ Olympics. After being hosed down, Dave impressed us...
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Six Appeal

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, ...