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By Sabrina JasziYears ago, we singled out Matt Wolf as a fledgling talent at NYU's film school and elevated him as the first ever member of the Heeb 100. Now, at the tender age of 26, Wolf's feature directoria...

The Scarlett Wedder

jewlia

September 29, 2008

Voluptuous starlett (according to the Chicago Manual of Style, anyone writing about her must mention her curves) Scarlett Johansson got married on Saturday. The lucky groom is Ryan Reynolds, who was formerly en...

The M.O.T. Heard Round the World

joshua neuman

September 29, 2008

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Not since 1945 when Hank Greenberg clinched the American League pennant with a grand slam on the final day of the season, has a more dramatic home run been generated from a Jewish bat. Yesterday, with one swi...

_1-2-3 / Apple Tree_

September 29, 2008

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Herman Dune is not the name of a person. Rather, it is a band name picked by songwriter David Ivar because, as he explains it, it sounded like it could be the name of a person. "I love solo acts that sound like...

Harvey Pekar: 1939-2010

Heeb

September 29, 2008

In Heeb's Politics Issue, Pekar (R.I.P.) asks the question: Are God's Children too stupid? Click here to view the full comic....

_Indignation_

Brian Abrams

September 29, 2008

The intersection between the political and the personal has proved to be the defining theme of late-period Philip Roth. In American Pastoral (1997), the author served up a stinging elegy for '60s-era idealism t...

The _Heeb_ Hundred

September 29, 2008

Meet the next hundred Jews we think you'll be hearing more about in the not-so-distant future.

Meet Alaska’s Yamacaucus

sabrina_jaszi

September 26, 2008

By Sabrina Jaszi Governor Sarah Palin's fervent Christian minions may be the public face of Alaska, but in the state's House of Representatives, a group of Jewish politicians are increasingly casting long shado...

Losing Control?

jewdar

September 26, 2008

The Jewish world is all abuzz over the leaked memo making the rounds, suggesting that Jew-Know-Who's control over Hollywood may be weakening. Apparently, some Dreamworks executive assistant thinks that "R...

Not in Long Island Anymore

September 26, 2008

Jamie Lynn Sigler picks at a roll made of pizza dough at Angeli CaffÃ© in West Hollywood as we discuss her upcoming return to HBO on the fifth season of Entourage. Sigler plays "a version of" herself for three ...

Nosh Pit

September 26, 2008