This past weekend, nearly 2,000 bands descended on Austin, Texas for the annual SXSW Festival and in the three days that I was there, I managed to see 29 of them. Thirty, if you count the Holy Fuck set that I i...
No fewer than three new reports on Jewish intermarriage are being released this week. The reports, prepared by The Steinhardt Social Research Institute and Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies at Brandeis, th...
We don't blame Holocaust hoaxer Monique de Wael for making up the outlandish tale of her survival during the Holocaust that became a best-selling memoir. She, after all, is clearly deranged, and one may expect ...
Austria's The Counterfeiters, which hits theaters today, follows in the tradition of another Oscar-nominated Holocaust film, Schindler's List for at its center, we find a removed and callow egoist who eventuall...
Just because some legendary romps ignore the connection between the heeby and the geeky—as Wormser can attest—that doesn't mean audiences don't notice. So hats off to the readers of Stuck in the '80s for their ...
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...
Jewdarphiles have long counted on us to provide them with the cutting-edgiest commentary on all things Jewish and pop-culture. Sometimes, though, an issue arises that requires us to break from our customary bad...
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...
"On _Slate_":http://www.slate.com/id/2179830/, Bonnie Goldstein writes that Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad "seems to welcome dissent" on his "official blog":http://www.ahmadinejad.ir/. Goldstein is corre...
As a result of a spur of the moment decision, a cheap plane ticket and a free hotel room I find myself sitting at a computer in the press center of Art Basel Miami Beach, surrounded by two guys in multicolored ...
Who knew one month ago when England were "1-0 up against Russia":http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/internationals/7047394.stm, that the key to their hopes of qualifying for Euro 2008 would ultimately lie...
William Saletan at Slate "reports back":http://www.slate.com/id/2177228 from an American Enterprise Institute forum called "Abraham's Children: Race, Identity and the DNA of the Chosen People".
According to...