On Whoopi’s Cushion
Way back in "the Fall of 2005":http://www.heebmagazine.com/articles/view/18 Jewdar showed some—well, not love, per se, but at least moderate affection—for gay pop icon and Ramaz grad Ari Gold. Tomorrow morning ...
Body of Evidence
Unlike "_Ms._":http://www.heebmagazine.com/blog/view/485, the British men's mag _Arena_ has no qualms about boasting of Israeli female achievement. In its February issue, _Arena_ "bestows 22-year old Victoria S...
Salvation on Wheels
"Dad will be so pissed you wrecked the car while he was away!"
"No, I have an awesome idea. I'll just take it to the body shop and get it fixed and repainted and pretend it was a present. You know how much h...
Kristen Schaal Hosts _Heeb_ Storytelling
On Sunday, February 10 at 7 p.m., _Flight of the Conchords_' "Kristen Schaal":http://www.comedycentral.com/comedians/browse/s/kristen_schaal.jhtml hosts _Heeb_ Storytelling at Joe's Pub in Manhattan. Schaal wil...
_Heeb_ Hookups
It's been almost a year since we produced our "_Heeb_ Hookups vid":http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yMJWmGK7HI, which spoofed J-Date, _Match.com_ and the desperate re-fashioning of the self that occurs nowadays ...
President Bloomberg?
As Republican and Democratic Presidential hopefulls increasingly become hopeless, Michael Bloomberg continues to "raise his profile.":http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/01/07/bloomberg-drops-no-hints-in-okl...
Kid Rock Loves Jews, Guns
At his NYC New Year's Eve party, Kid Rock jokingly "asked reporter Shira Levine to marry him.":http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2008/01/kid_rock_loves_new_york_jews.html He loves the Jews! Why? "They just fucking g...
Hardly Comic
While on the subject of the year's best and worst, Jewdar tips the proverbial yarmulke to the governments of the Arab League, which in our mind, are about as close to the "Legion of Doom":http://en.wikipedia.or...
Man of the Year?
Jewdar's coveted Man of the Year Award for 2007 (we know, we know, it's a day or too late, but we had to make sure that all the ballots were in) goes to Will Smith. As many Jewdar devotees may know by now, not...
Quit Crying
Just because you're a Jew doesn't mean you've got to boo-hoo-hoo on Christmas Eve. Tonight, _Heeb_'s party-of-the-year is going off simultaneously in New York, Los Angeles, Denver, Chicago and Portland. Rehab w...
Borat is Dead, Long Live Baron Cohen
Sad news: In a rare "interview":http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2007/12/21/bfborat121.x with _The Telegraph_, actor/comedian/genius Sacha Baron Cohen reveals that he is laying to rest the c...
Return of the Deli
Yesterday was the official sausage-cutting for the brand-new uptown incarnation of the famed 2nd Avenue Deli. In case you were too busy to make a pilgrimage (like "we were":http://heebmagazine.com/blog/view/461...
