Author MichaelLiss

Underdog Yuri Foreman beat Daniel Santos by unanimous decision recently in Las Vegas to become the first Jewish Israeli world boxing champion. Foreman, who was born in Belarus and emigrated to Israel at age 10,...

A Serious Man, the Coen Brothers' most Jewy pic ever, held its U.S. premiere at the Ziegfeld Theater in New York last night, with an afterparty at the venerable Friars Club. The screening launched the new Fria...

If you're craving a cupcake topped with whipped vanilla frosting the next time you're in the Holy Land, you're in luck.A New York Times story about the American-style cupcake craze spreading across the Middle E...

Jeremy Piven finally gave a bit more of his side of the fish story last night on David Letterman. Piven dropped out of a hit Broadway revival of David Mamet's Speed-the-Plow with Mad Men's Elisabeth Moss and mu...

Pulitzer Prize-winner David Mamet will be writing and directing a new film about Anne Frank, to be released by Disney.The film will draw on Frank's original diaries, the famous Broadway play by Albert Hackett a...

After the critical success of Funny Ha Ha and Mutual Appreciation, writer/director Andrew Bujalski's third film, Beeswax, (Trailer After the Jump) premiered at SXSW this spring. The New York Times praised the "...

What's Pope Benedict XVI got in common with Nirvana, Guns N' Roses and Whitesnake? They all have albums on Geffen Records. Drawn from the archives of Vatican Radio, the Pope will appear on Alma Mater, singing &...

The new documentary Unattached explores the predicament of aging 20-year-old single women in the Upper West Side's Modern Orthodox community failing to find a match. This "plague" is causing major anx...

(500) Days of Summer, an off-beat romantic comedy starring Zooey Deschanel and Joseph Gordon-Levitt, was one of the biggest hits at Sundance this year, a trend that has actually continued into the real world fo...

Esther Klein was expecting a night of family fun with her grandkids when she borrowed Austin Powers on VHS from the Borough Park branch of The Brooklyn Public Library. Instead, the Brooklyn grandma was the vict...

Get ready to laugh your ass off.Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, the creators of the Office and Extras, have their first joint feature coming out - Cemetery Junction. All we know is that it is "a 1970s-...

 Heeb sat down with the director Havana Marking to talk about her new documentary Afghan Star. The movie follows four very different contestants of the TV show of the same name, an American Idol-style tale...