Jews For Colbert
After wrestling with my weighty conscience for weeks, I am compelled to speak out on behalf of a fringe-yet-burgeoning community. A group of naysayers that feels a deep-rooted guilt over preferring Stephen Colbert to Jon Stewart. I know. I know. Jon’s, like, “our guy.” He’s the dude we used to put at the top of...
Kelly Clarkson To Holocaust: “Never Again!”
It’s true that I haven’t heard the song yet nor have I bothered to read the lyrics but nevertheless, I’m completely supportive of my girl Kelly Clarkson getting pissed off about the Holocaust. And I say, it’s about time! You go, girlfriend. “Never Again,” the first single off Clarkson’s forthcoming third record My December, is...
Epic Trip
Testament, by media theorist and culture critic Doug Rushkoff and Liam Sharp, is serialized as a monthly comic book from DC/Vertigo and then collected into a graphic novel every five or six issues — Testament Volume Two: West of Eden was just recently released. The series ranks among the triumvirate of Neil Gaiman’s Sandman, Grant...
Merchants of Menace
While Jews are, of course, well-known for being good with money, that does not mean that Jews with money are well-known for being good. In this history lesson with David Deutsch you'll learn that, unfortunately, sometimes Yids do the darndest things.
Regina Spektor Takes America by Song
Back in 2005, before the 500 Days of Summer soundtrack put her on every iTunes list, the Russian songstress told Heeb how she spent that very first record contract check.
Guilty Gazes
Mirror, mirror, on the wall, who's the guiltiest one of all? Nancy Schwartzman curates our gallery of guilt.
In the Beginning
by Jenn Welcome to the third issue of Heeb. In the year since we’ve launched, many readers have written to tell us how cool we are. Others have slapped us for “trying to be cool.” In all honesty, “coolness” is not something we’re after—but we know it when we see it, and we definitely saw...
Urban Kvetch: “Vader Abraham im Land der Schlumpfe”
Vader Abraham im Land der Schlumpfe I’m assuming that Vader Abraham is the guy on the cover of this obscure vinyl 45″, but why is he singing love songs to oversized Smurfs? Is he supposed to be Hasidic or just a creepy old German? We all know that the Smurfs were an anti-Semitic race of...
Urban Kvetch: “Brooklyn Babylon”, directed by Marc Levin
Brooklyn Babylon, directed by Marc Levin Everyone from the New York Times to Artisan, the company that funded it, hated this updated King Solomon and Queen of Sheeba love story. They hated it so much that it never saw the inside of a major movie theater, and went straight to the sorry-ass shelves of Blockbuster....
Urban Kvetch: The Black Hat
The Black Hat This style is truly fly. Not only does it go with any outfit, but the black fedora is just straight hustler. Humphrey Bogart might have popularized it, but the Baal Shem Tov pioneered the look at least three hundred years before Casablanca hit, and way before it made its way into a...
Urban Kvetch: Manishewitz Cherry Wine
Manishewitz cherry wine Different fruit, same toxic dreck. Really, wasn’t it insulting enough to do this to grapes? They should have quit while they were ahead (with everyone passed out in the puke on their seder plates.) As always, drinking more than a bottle induces a psychedelic trance similar to a k-hole along with memory...
Urban Kvetch: Senator Diane Feinstein
Senator Diane Feinstein (D-Calif.) Diane Feinstein is the uber-carpool mom. Just look at her. Now imagine that it’s 7:35 on Sunday morning and you scramble out to her honking station wagon. You’re sitting in the back seat, nice and warm in your winter jacket, when suddenly she starts in: We need to ban the gun-show...
