Wacky Mormons Love to Baptize Dead Jews
The controversy over LDS posthumousbaptisms continues. See, the Mormons have this thing in which they offer salvation to the dead by performing rites that "baptize" them in absentia, giving even us ba...
_Heeb_ Storytelling Returns to Washington, D.C.
Heeb Magazine's critically-acclaimed storytelling series returns to the nation's capital on Monday, November 17 with seven-minute Jewish stories from Mark Katz (Bill Clinton speech writer), Michael Hear...
_State of the Union: 50 Political Poems_: The _Heeb_ Review
Political poetry is back. And Matthew Zapruder and Joshua Beckman's State of the Union: 50 Political Poems (Wave Books) is proof positive. Like Homer and the lyricists of old, the diverse group of poets here re...
Now Crystal Clear
Since Dan Akroyd's digital endorsement for Crystal Head Vodka infested the Internet tubes, moviegoing boozehounds have been scratching their heads. Many dismiss the viral vid as a fake, a marketing ploy to both...
Guttenberg Tuchus Update
When I first saw the video of Police Academy's Steve Guttenberg "caught" jogging around with his dong and backside hanging out of an oversized sleeveless tee, I had my suspicions. If you watch closely...
Frank Gehry’s Museum of (In)Tolerance
After two years of delays, starchitect Frank Gehry's positively garrish Center for Human Dignity-Musuem of Tolerance Jerusalem just got the greenlight. In 2006, it was discovered that the Museum's proposed sit...
Recession Potatoes
Who doesn't want to watch a 91 year old woman cook and jaw a little about surviving the depression? Most devastating line: "I had to quit high school because I didn't have any socks." Allow Clara to s...
Calling All Goth Lovers
Check outthis trailer for the new rock opera film, Repo! The Genetic Opera, brought to you by the f-ed up mindsbehind the Saw series.I don't have much to add to this other than "Wtf." Oh, and Paris Hi...
_Heeb_ Storytelling this Friday at Miami Book Fair International
Heeb Storytelling travels to Miami, FL for the first time this Friday. Co-sponsored by The Open Tent, the event will take place at 7 p.m. at the Miami Book Fair and feature stories by Andrea Askowitz, Larry Be...
Sour Kraut
Juergen Gansel, a deputy in the Saxony State Legislature representing Germany's National Democratic (Neo-Nazi) Party, has been flinging a little shit at the results of the historic 2008 American presidential el...
Josh Schwartz Expands His Genius
In the beginning, Gossip Girl was just a guilty pleasure, a little escape that I indulged in on Monday nights without revealing my whereabouts to friends. Phone calls were dodged so that I could immerse myself ...
Separated at Birth?
On Jewssip, recent photos of Amy Winehouse, who has ditched her signature beehive for a new Jewfro. The result? A spectacle which bears a striking resemblance to the demon offspring of Nosferatu and my mother c...
