Why Do We Feel So Guilty?
_What is guilt that thou art so mindful of it?_ Allen Salkin on a secular religion.
The _Heeb_ Hundred
One hundred portraits of people you need to know about.
H O W T O F I X T H I N G S
An aging toilet, an impenetrable coffee machine, an escalating co-payment and other dilemmas in this excerpt from _Behind Everyman_, by David Israel.
SoCalled Klezmer
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It sometimes takes audiences a song or two to figure out whether all of this is just one big post-modern joke—SoCalled makes you want to hunt down a Cossack and throw a crea...
Wrong Numbers
75 percent of the Jews in America who voted in the 2004 presidential election voted for John Kerry—so why is the Republican Jewish Coalition so happy? Sara Marcus on the battle for the heart and soul of a new generation of Jewish voters.
Regina Spektor Takes America by Song
Back in 2005, before the 500 Days of Summer soundtrack put her on every iTunes list, the Russian songstress told Heeb how she spent that very first record contract check.
Rain Dances
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"I'm black and a Jew—I swear I could spend years in therapy," Rain Pryor says. "But what's the point? I'd rather write about my life and perform it."
Pryor, the daughter ...
The Moral Minority
Sick and tired of the religious right? Meet the men and women increasingly organizing around progressive causes as people of faith. Anya Kamenetz reports on the religious left.
Out From Under
South Africa, 1936: A young German couple begins a strange new life in this excerpt from Shana Liebman's novel in progress, based on the experiences of her grandparents.
Once You Go JAP…
Joshua Rubin photographs five punk sirens as they straighten their hair, cut calories and construct themselves as capitalist subjects.
The Beastie Within
Ad-Rock, MCA and Mike D. discuss the best falafel in town, Uncle Freddy's Yiddish and why it's taken them so long to get on the cover of Heeb. Arye Dworken spends the day with the Beastie Boys.
