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July 2012

July 10, 2012

Bravo’s ‘Miss Advised’ Gets Their Golems All Wrong

Bravo's reality show Miss Advised is about three women who give relationship advice for a...

July 02, 2012

Will Smith’s Ex-Wife Sheree Is Now Married to a Preacher and On a Vh1 Show

The new Vh1 show Hollywood Exes is kind of like The First Wives Club meets...

June 2012

June 26, 2012

Coming Next: ‘The Real Christian Housewives’?

Love them or hate them, you can't deny that the Real Housewives franchise has become...

June 24, 2012

Jonathan Jackson Thanks God In His Daytime Emmy Acceptance Speech

Actor Jonathan Jackson, who has played Lucky Spencer (son of Luke and Laura!) on the...

June 19, 2012

Actress Meagan Good Marries an Executive Slash Preacher

Actress Meagan Good, who is on Californication and has been in movies like Jumping the...

June 18, 2012

The Duggar Daughters Are Writing a Book

Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar already have two books under their belts - 20 and...

June 17, 2012

Aaron Paul’s Dad Is a Baptist Minister

Actor Aaron Paul won an Emmy for his work on Breaking Bad, but I'll always...

May 2012

May 21, 2012

Mad Men Introduces Hare Krishnas, Entire World Makes ‘Harry Krishna’ Joke

Last night, Mad Men took a break from exploring Judaism to introduce another religion. In...

May 14, 2012

When Mad Men Met Manischewitz

Okay, that's it. If Mad Men keeps getting Jewy I am going to have to...

May 07, 2012

‘Mad Men’ Invokes a Jewy Sylvia Plath Poem

Last night's episode was titled "Lady Lazarus," which fellow lit nerds will recognize as the...

April 2012

April 30, 2012

A Duggar Neighbor Posts His Thoughts on Reddit

If you don't know about Reddit's AMA series, it stands for "Ask Me Anything" and...

April 23, 2012

Michael Ginsburg Isn’t the Only Jew on ‘Mad Men’

A few weeks ago, Mad Men added its first Jewish regular character, Michael Ginsburg, played...

April 20, 2012

Egyptian Pundit Kicked Off TV Show After Accusing Host of Being a Jew

For some people, "Jew" is an adjective that defines someone's ethnic or religious identity. For...

April 17, 2012

From ‘Game of Thrones’ to Ancient Hebrew Scholarship

Jack Gleeson wears two hats: by night, he plays Prince Joffrey on HBO's hit show...

April 02, 2012

‘Mad Men’ Just Got Way More Jewish

I love Mad Men, and I like the way that the first two episodes of...

March 2012

March 27, 2012

Giuliana Rancic Says Breast Cancer Was Part of God’s Plan for Her

Although I never liked Giuliana Rancic's style of red carpet interviews, I've become more and...

March 26, 2012

FGP Celebrity Quote of the Week: Aubrey Plaza Dresses Like a Catholic Schoolgirl

Aubrey Plaza is adorable and hilarious on Parks and Recreation, but she's also both of...

March 04, 2012

Buddha Makes an Appearance on ‘Saturday Night Live’

What if the Buddha had actually been a secret jerk? That was the premise in...

March 04, 2012

‘Happy Endings’ Star Adam Pally Rocks a Hebrew Tattoo

On last week's episode of Happy Endings, Max (played by Adam Pally) had a shirtless...

February 2012

February 28, 2012

Um, You Guys, Stefon Might Be Jewish

Stefon, if you're not as much of a "Weekend Update" nerd as I am, is...

January 2012

January 31, 2012

TLC Picks Up New Show Called ‘Preacher Wives’

TLC, which stopped being The Learning Channel quite some time ago, has announced some of...

January 02, 2012

Wil Wheaton Says Kardashians Are Worse Than Hitler

In our culture, there's one quick and efficient way to emphasize that something or someone...

December 2011

December 19, 2011

There Is a Jewish Kardashian Now, You Guys

Well, sort of. It's Scott "Patrick Bateman" Disick, boyfriend of Kourtney Kardashian and dad to...

November 2011

November 30, 2011

Pastor and Author Joel Osteen Is Getting His Own Reality Show

Mega-popular megachurch pastor Joel Osteen, author of the bestseller Your Best Life Now and other...

November 30, 2011

That Time Penn Badgley Got Chased By Catholic Schoolgirls

I'd wager that for the average dude, being surrounded by Catholic schoolgirls in their uniforms...

November 28, 2011

Kim Kardashian’s Marriage Was Supposedly Broken Up By Naked Yoga

The new season of Kourtney and Kim Take New York (one of the umpteen Kardashian...

November 10, 2011

Kat Dennings is ‘A Billion Percent Jewish’

Kat Dennings, who first hit big as Michael Cera's love interest in Nick and Norah's...

October 2011

October 28, 2011

Axe Deodorant ‘Angel’ Ad Gets Banned for Offending Christians

A commercial for Axe deodorant has been banned in South Africa for offending Christian viewers....