Author The Grand Conspirator

Shalom Auslander is angry: angry about his Orthodox childhood in Monsey, NY; angry about his father drinking too much; angry about the God of the Old Testament acting so darn ruthlessly. In fact, Shalom Ausland...

The strike at General Motors entered its third day. Ahmadinejad vowed to ignore the U.N. in the dispute over his country's nuclear program. "Female ninjas":http://www.thepittsburghchannel.com/news/14181828/deta...

Last year, Ari Sandel's "_West Bank Story_":http://www.westbankstory.com/ somehow won an Academy Award for "Best Live Action Short Film." The film told the story of an Israeli soldier falling for a Palestinian ...

We have lower back pain in every inch of our bodies, but are psyched to have endured _Heeb_ HQ's move from SoHo to "DUMBO":http://dumbonyc.com/. It took three days and (more impressively) three Jewish men layin...

A few of years ago, we challenged "_Hyphen_,":http://www.hyphenmagazine.com/ the magazine of Asian American arts, culture and commentary to a table tennis competition to determine once and for all who owned the...

It's not unusual for us to get free shit here at _Heeb_ HQ. On a typical day, we might be sent a pet yarmulke and tallis, a survival memoir from a third generation Holocaust survivor and a hip-hop demo from a h...

We've been following "_The Business_":http://ifc.com/series?aId=17962 since it premiered last year on IFC. The "scripted-improv hybrid" chronicles crass, smut peddler Vic Morgan's (Rob deLeeuw, above, second fr...

Last year, the "Black Eyed Peas held a concert in Tel Aviv.":http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyAd-BGGxJw On September 9, they're back in Israel, this time to headline "Jerusalem Rocks!":http://www.jerusalemrocks...

If you enjoy hanging out with wannabes from the burbs making their annual "isn't Brooklyn cool?" pilgrimage, or being sold cell-phone subscriptions, or Budweiser (as opposed to our beer sponsor, "Brooklyn Brewe...

Tonight, "Dead Unicorn":http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=10485280 (above) joins "Titan,":http://myspace.com/titan "Teeth of the Hydra,":http://www.myspace.com/teethofthe...

Throw down some jello shots with us tonight as we celebrate the release of the Kids Issue and the opening of the "Diamond Days Festival":http://www.myspace.com/diamonddaysfest at "The Charleston":http://www.hee...

This is "Queen Beatrix of Holland.":http://www.digital-dreams.nl/realdutch/queen.htm As Dutch tradition has it, she's the first to sample the Northern European nation's herring catch. This year, the catch be...