I Was Fifteen When I Met Allen Ginsberg
The late Matthew Power's elegy to a friend and lover
A Modest Proposal for the “Vanishing American Jew”
Inside the world of polyamorous Jews
Our Stomachs, Ourselves
Gastrointestinal diseases and the Jews that have them
Kvetching and Screaming: The Polemics, Public Spats & Private Denunciations Of Larry Kramer
Originally published in Heeb's 8th issue, we revisit our interview with AIDS activist Larry Kramer following the HBO dramatization of his play "The Normal Heart"
Roseanne Barred
Jewdar takes issue with Roseanne Barr's motivation for Hitler photo spread.
Like Son, Like Father: Judea Pearl
In the beginning of 2002, Daniel Pearl, a 38-year-old Wall Street Journal reporter on assignment investigating links between Al Qaeda and Pakistani intelligence, was kidnapped and beheaded in Karachi, Pakastan....
Weapons of Mass Delusions: Noam Chomsky on the Guilt of a Nation
In 1967, as nearly half a million American troops fought in Vietnam, MIT linguistics professor Noam Chomsky wrote an essay for the New York Review of Books that derided his fellow intellectuals for standing...
Urban Kvetch: Opening Credits in Short Films
Opening Credits in Short Films
Listen Scorsese, next time you plan to devote three minutes of your short to an opening title sequence designed by your cousin the "amazing graphic artist," please invite me to y...
Urban Kvetch: Bad Kissers
Bad Kissers
By the time you're a grown-up, you should know what you're doing with your lips and your tongue and your hands and your body when you're kissing someone. And if you're not popular and have had hard...
Urban Kvetch: Airplane Touch Screens
Airplane Touch Screens
Who's the genius that came up with the idea of touch screens on the back of airline seats? On top of the empty stomach I have from not being fed and the anxiety I'm feeling from only car...
Urban Kvetch: Uncle Solly’s Death
Uncle Solly's Death
You know what? Uncle Solly didn't "just know" to expire the Friday before Presidents DAy weekend so that your second cousins from Rancho Palos Verde, California, would be able to make it to...
Urban Kvetch: Scooped-Out Bagels
Scooped-Out Bagels
If God meant for us to scoop out the insides of our bagels, he wouldn't have designed the bagel with a hole in it already. IF you're really concerned that you're going to get fat from eating...
