Best of 5771: Television
5771 may be over, but we're still looking back on the bests of the past Jewish year. For your consideration, the best in television from the year that was.
Lee Roy Myers: The Bastard Love Child of Mel Brooks and Linda Lovelace
The Rise of the Slapstick Pornographer
So Much for Controlling the Media
The publisher of Heeb waxes philosophical on the state of the magazine...then takes another swig.
I Wanna Be Like Kike: Amar’e, LeBron and Jewishness
Two timing of two spiritual quests says a lot about the evolving NBA power structure.
Yulia Plotkin: The New Face of Hazorfim
Your favorite epithetically-titled magazine conducts a nation-wide model search for one of Israel's most esteemed brands.
Hip Hop Reviews from Ice Cold Rhoda
A Jewy Hip-Hop parody video that (thankfully) doesn’t reference “NY State of Mind,” courtesy of Rachel Feinstein.
Like Son, Like Father: Judea Pearl
In the beginning of 2002, Daniel Pearl, a 38-year-old Wall Street Journal reporter on assignment investigating links between Al Qaeda and Pakistani intelligence, was kidnapped and beheaded in Karachi, Pakastan. The brutal nature of the tragedy, the video depicting Daniel’s last minutes that would soon surface on the Internet and his last words “My name...
Fans of NY Mets Like (K)Ike
Yesterday, was an exciting day for 23-year-old first baseman Ike Davis. The New York Mets rookie, who the spent the early afternoon at Modell’s Sporting Goods in Times Square for the official launch of the “I Like Ike” T-shirt, finished off the day helping his team to defeat its arch-rival the Philadelphia Phillies and moving...
Defamation: The Heeb Review
To uncover the meaning of anti-Semitism today, Shamir gains remarkable access to Foxman and the ADL -- providing a portrait of the organization consisting not of Machiavellian opportunism, but of confusion -- nebbishes with the best of intentions.
