Frank Insensitivity
The next time some guy with Ron Jeremy's facial hair tries to screw with Jewdar, he'd better bring his bitchin', bass-heavy, 1970's-style porno soundtrack. This past week, the Jewish Week ran an opinion piece b...
_Heeb_ Storytelling Returns!
Less than two weeks until the next edition of Heeb Storytelling hosted by Flight of the Conchords' Kristen Schaal (above right along with Heeb arts editor/Heeb Storytelling director Shana Liebman). Schall will ...
Blame it on Rio
If your image of Carnival in Rio is similar to the photo above, you're in for a rude and somewhat bizarre shock. This year, a group in Rio plans to include a Holocaust-themed float in the festivities. We at _...
Noa’s Arc
It all started with a bat mitzvah. HBO's latest drama, In Treatment, that is. The series (premiering tonight), about a psychotherapist (Gabriel Byrne) and his regular patients, is based on the Israeli hit Be' T...
Genital Mutilation
Mild nausea was generally the response I elicited last month from the Aliens That Look Like Genitalia movie roundup I did for _Maxim Online_. It's certainly not something bubbie and zadie would want to ha...
Bundle of Goy
Big mazel, as they say in the music biz (you can tell Jewdar is an entertainment industry insider because we use words like "biz"), to Jordan Bratman and Christina Aguilera on the ceremonial snipping of their son.
Caught Red-Headed
Radar Online's The Ethnicist asks C. H. Dalton, the author of _A Practical Guide to Racism_, about the idea that Jews are cursed with curly, unmanageable red locks. According to Dalton, this is "one of the...
Dead Ringer
Orthodox Stance, Jason Hutt's documentary about Dmitriy Salita, the professional boxer and observant Jew from Brooklyn, does not want to just be a gefilte fish-out-of-water story, but unfortunately, it offers l...
Bigmouth Strikes Again
Sure, al Qaeda is getting stronger, missiles are being fired from Gaza and worldwide financial catastrophe looms, but what's the deal with Jewish women and oral sex? Well, apparently we're not the only ones st...
Smoke Signals
Amy Winehouse caught smoking crack. Is it just me, or does Britain need a Dr. Phil? ...
Goy Issues
You might be wondering what inspired "our latest vid":http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPtddstBkKc (aside from Sarah, Winona, Amy, Sarah Michelle, Rachel and Barbra). Well, in the past five years we've been asked...
Moo-t Point
After four years of debate, the "F.D.A. ruled today":http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/15/business/15cnd-clone.html?em&ex=1200546000&en=fd2c8ce3ecc662cc&ei=5087%0A that food from cloned animals is safe for human c...
