Leave the Gun, Take the Falafel
An Arab-Israeli woman engaged to a Jew survived a drive-by shooting on Sunday that police claimed was motivated by a "desecration of the family's honor." Apparently, the shots were aimed at the woman'...
SXSW Recap Part I
This past weekend, nearly 2,000 bands descended on Austin, Texas for the annual SXSW Festival and in the three days that I was there, I managed to see 29 of them. Thirty, if you count the Holy Fuck set that I i...
Lipa-Suction
Earlier this month, Hasidic pop-star Lipa Schmeltzer was forced to pull out of a concert at the WaMu Theatre at Madison Square Garden when several Brooklyn black hats condemned his music as immoral. One told Y...
No Love for Natalie
Last week we told you that Hasidic friend-of-Heeb Abe Karpen was spotted on the Brooklyn Bridge with Natalie Portman. He was filming a movie in which he played Portman's husband, but that's the last sighting of...
It’s Alive!
Saturday Night Live has been enjoying a resurgence in political relevance as of late. But what really got our attention was Heeb coverboy Jonah Hill's tour-de-force as six-year-old borscht belter Adam Grossman...
Stuff White People Like’s Christian Lander: The Heeb Interview
Less than a month ago, StuffWhitePeopleLike.wordpress.com debuted, declaring coffee the #1 thing adored by white people. According to the writer, "Yes, it's true that asians like iced coffee and people of ...
Monsey Can’t Buy Me Love
A grass-roots effort by a community of Orthodox Jews temporarily fended off a proposal from Wal-Mart to build a store in their town of Monsey, N.Y. The mega-retailer had been courting rabbis along with the gene...
Frum Brooklyn With Love
Is Natalie Portman stalking _Heeb_?Last week she was seen at the Kiva/ GOOD Magazine event with _Heeb_ associate publisher Adam Baruchowitz. Today, she was spotted on the Brooklyn Bridge with _Heeb_ co-conspira...
_Heeb_ Storytelling: The Easter Edition
If you're the type of person who typically celebrates Easter by biting the heads off of marshmallow bunnies, then you won't want to miss the next installment of the world's most infamous traveling Jewish road s...
David Zucker: The _Heeb_ Interview
Who else but Hollywood veteran David Zucker could possibly direct a brainless Spidey spoof like Superhero Movie? This is the guy, after all, who teamed up with Jim Abrahams and brother Jerry Zucker to deliver g...
