Author rebecca

You can take a break from mourning the break-up of the Davids to celebrate this breaking development: "Isla Fisher is carrying Sacha Baron Cohen's spawn.":http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20041347,00.htm...

I am terribly saddened to report that "the holy union between Laurie and Larry David is over.":http://www.nypost.com/seven/06052007/gossip/pagesix/newly_single_pagesix_.htm/ Page Six asserts that Laurie's fame ...

It's the 40th anniversary of the Six-Day War and "the region has sure come a long way.":http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/05/world/middleeast/05cnd-mideast.html?hp ...

"Judd Apatow":http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0031976 's new film _Knocked Up_ opens today and yes, you should be really excited. If you haven't caught one of the 500 reviews of the movie, let me give you a little r...

Today, Slate "discusses":http://www.slate.com/id/2167293/ a new book called _Forbidden Fruit: Sex & Religion in the Lives of American Teenagers_ by Mark Regnerus. Here's my favorite tidbit of reviewer Hanna Ros...

For National Doodle Day (which is February 23rd, in case you were as shocked as I was to learn there was even such a day), Barack Obama agreed to make a drawing for charity. His quickie portraits of Chuck Schum...

In May's issue of _GQ_, Jim Nelson uses the phrase "Asian whores" twice in his editor's letter, and is "getting hell for it":http://www.nypost.com/seven/05142007/gossip/pagesix/gq_editor_ripped_for_slur_pagesix...

He may be pro-life, anti-gay marriage and, um... a "Mormon":http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaUTzDQoCng&mode=related&search=/, but at least Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney believes in "evolution":h...

This week's _New York_ Magazine nods at billionaire "Lev Leviev":http://nymag.com/news/intelligencer/31549/, a Russian/Israeli Lubavitcher diamond merchant who just bought the New York Times building. This guy ...

by editorial intern Laura E. Marcus The first thing I thought when I saw Patrick Wolf grace the stage at Brooklyn's Studio B was, "Holy shit, this guy is the Morrissey of my generation!" Now don't get me wro...

Just in case you were concerned that that rabbi wasn't going to have enough matzoh for the holiday without his trusty bus/oven/deathtrap, worry no more. "The matzoh bus rabbi has been granted a special Passover...

We have nothing but love for our "Money Issue":http://heebish.com/issues/view/10/ coverboy Jeremy Piven, but even we can't help but ask: Is he "on a mission":http://www.jewtastic.com/posts/11154/ to be the most...