Buber Flash
We confess to not having been big fans of Martin Buber when we read him in grad school. But the other night, we had a super-moving "I-Thou":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_and_Thou moment. Flashback to a month a...
Whatchu Talkin Bout, Officer?
Not yet satisfied your fix for depressing news about former child stars? Try this one: Two days ago, the cops cited Gary Coleman for disorderly conduct after he was seen "banging on his steering wheel and argui...
Lost Men
In other "Corey Feldman news":http://heebmagazine.com/blog/view/271, he's teamed back up with Corey Haim for a "poorly-reviewed":http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/27/AR2007072702432.h...
No Brainer
We just got this in our inbox:
"The Israel Project invites you to a telephone conference call and Q & A with:
Mitchell Bard, Ph.D.
author of "_The Complete Idiot's Guide to Middle East Conflict_":http://...
RIP Antonioni and Bergman
Film greats "Michelangelo Antonioni":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelangelo_Antonioni and "Ingmar Bergman":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingmar_Bergman died on the "same day":http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article...
Springtime for Hitler
Some of you might be familiar with the so-called "Jewish fetish for Asians":http://heebmagazine.com/articles/view/30, but after checking out a tip a reader sent us, "it doesn't appear like the love is mutual.":...
_Heeb_ Love Chunk
Last weekend, geeks abounded at the "2007 San Diego Comic-Con":http://www.comic-con.org/, as junior movie studio execs, graphic novelists, and Boba Fett groupies gathered to celebrate the man-child universe.
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Let’s Play Two!
What do Rocky and the history of the Jewish people have in common? No, the answer is not "_pain_,":http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1TxiVhrkZA as Clubber Lang might assert. The answer is that both will be honore...
Hot and Bothered Over Hillary
It is not our desire to venture out of the warm, nurturing embrace of the entertainment world, but "David Brooks'":http://select.nytimes.com/2007/07/27/opinion/27brooks.html?_r=1&hp&oref=login piece in the _Tim...
File Under: Too Much Time Spent on the Internets
And now, we give you a YouTube era Frankenstein: some random girl's version of Allen Ginsberg's _HOWL_ "dedicated to Lindsay Lohan":http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BlAzT7PmLA. Enjoy.
Via "Boing Boing":http...
Bat Boy Weeps at Loss of “The World’s Only Reliable Newspaper”
After 28 years of thrillingly reputable journalism, the Weekly World News is "shutting down":http://www.reuters.com/article/industryNews/idUSN7O23037320070724. The last issue of the beloved tabloid is slated fo...
The More the Merrier?
Yesterday, Slate "discussed":http://www.slate.com/id/2170977/ polygamy in America, and specifically among Muslims. Only about 1% of Muslim-Americans practice polygamy, but with the number of Muslim-Americans at...
