Chicky is a Heeb contributor and an aspiring comedy writer. But he’s a bit of mean spirited bastard. Is he too mean? We’re not sure. So we ask you, dear readers, to weigh in. Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post’s poll. Read More »

Rachel Bloom and Aaron Glaser and have produced an educational video promoting the Holocaust Museum of New Mexico. Because while the larger, better funded (but not necessarily more effective) Holocaust Museums are in NY, DC, and LA , Berlin, another one in LA , the smaller Holocaust museums must not be forgotten. Read More »

This dude is so misinformed. Someone oughta tell him we don’t get bacon, lobster, or foreskin . Personally, I’d trade all the stuff he says we have for a Christmas tree and a nose without this semetic bump. I guess it’s true what they say: The grass is always greener on the other side of the shtetl. Or in this case, the suburban backyard. Read More »

What happens to a song that goes on YouTube and only gets 300 views? Does it die–consequently sparing us of the few minutes of life we might have wasted on a Tumblr about cats? Nehedar ironically poses this question in her latest music video “The Read More »

Had you told Jewdar that he would be writing a defense of the Jewish Press, he would have said you were quite mad. Read More »

Jewish owners face off in Super Bowl XLVI. (Jspace ) Ari Fleischer secretly involved in Komen strategy On Planned Parenthood. (Think Progress ) Why the Komen/Planned Parenthood breakup—while it lasted—was good for feminism. ( The Nation ) Escape from Williamsburg. ( Forward ) Three American Jewish seminaries have been pronounced “sexually healthy. Read More »

The new political star of Germany is Jewish which hasn’t happened since…ever. We – Jews in Germany – are full of hope, for Marina Weisband has arrived. She will, even if she is only 24 and head of a disastrously incompetent party, bring some brighter days for all of us. That’s what the opening line to this text would have been four weeks ago. Read More »

Everybody loves a good fairytale. Boy meets Girl, Girl gets nose job, Boy decides Girl is attractive enough to keep around. In this case, the part of Boy is played by the British public, and it’s Labour Party leader Ed Miliband filling the role of the recently surgery-ed . Miliband claims the surgery was to fix a deviated septum. Read More »

Word on the street is that Drew Barrymore might follow in the footsteps of Marilyn Monroe, Isla Fisher, and Elizabeth Banks, by joining the Tribe . According to reports, she and Will Kopelman (pictured above with Barrymore) are planning to tie the knot later this year, and she wants to give him the greatest gift she can think of–Jewish kids. Read More »

Robert Hegyes (neither a Jew nor a Puerto Rican, which tells you what a good actor he was), who played Juan Luis Pedro Felipo de Huevos Epstein, the Puerto Rican Jew on Welcome Back, Kotter , died on Thursday at the age of 60 . Read More »

Panhandlers at Chabad World Headquarters must pay $5 fee to beg inside. ( NY Post ) Meet Zebolon Simontov, Afghanistan’s last remaining Jew. (Channel 4 News ) Amsterdam’s “gay cure” rabbi “fears for his life.” (Pink News ) Yoav Shamir tackles the question of what makes a hero. ( Haaretz ) It’s not me, it’s you. Read More »

The Peace Process is stalled. Iran looks nukier every day and it’s only a matter of time before Israel retaliates in the hummus wars . But just when you think there’s no hope for Jewish-Muslim relations, a couple of stories come along that suggests maybe, just maybe, there’s some hope for these crazy kids. Read More »

It may seem incredibly weird upon first listen, but rapper N.O.R.E.’s latest track “Mazel Tov” featuring Busta Rhymes, the Game, and Wakka Flocka actually makes perfect sense. The new track tipped to us by our friends at Jewcy was presumably recorded in an effort to infringe on that impossibly desirable Jewish mojo currently capitalized by Drake. Read More »

We know Hitler loved to get his toes tapping to a happy tune, but did you know that this show queen batted his eyelashes at a favorite matinee idol? According to a recent story in the Forward , Dutch-born singer Johannes Heesters, who recently died Read More »

Haters are gonna hate. Israelis are gonna rap about it. SHI 360 did just that. Having spent many teenage years in North America, SHI 360 brings Western style hip-hop/club music to the untamed Middle East. The result? Israeli hip-hop gold. Read More »

Thousands flocked to the Hard Rock Hotel in Las Vegas last week to attend the annual AVN Awards and Adult Entertainment Expo. Designated the “Oscars of Adult” by Entertainment Weekly , the trade show attracts fans and industry professionals alike to test out new toys and take photographs with stars. Read More »

Thousands of journalists received an email in early January containing the following warning, CoveritLive recently discovered that certain proprietary data files were accessed without authorization starting on or about January 7th, 2012. We have not yet determined to what extent CoveritLive account information was accessed. Read More »

Retired police officer convicted for graffiti. ( NY Post ) When Harry Met Sally faked orgasm scene remixed using film clips. (Laughing Squid ) Gossip is basically only thing holding society together, says science. (io9 ) Newspaper Editor: Israel should consider assassinating Obama. (Gawker ) Albert Brooks on thugs and presidents. Read More »

Just when we thought the annoyingly funny Sh*t People Say videos peaked, brother/sister duo Eliot and Ilana Glazer bring us Shit New Yorkers Say . Brilliantly produced, it’s one of the better shorts out there, which is refreshing given the rise of obvious lo-res cellphone videos around YouTube. Read More »

An Israeli insurance company , Meuhedet , has published a booklet designed to educate patients on “special women’s cancer.” That’s because breast cancer is too titilating of a name to be used in haredim communities. Read More »