Issues

You're ripped from your mother's womb, denied her milk, stuffed in a crate for the remainder of your wretched days, then slaughtered, ground and shipped to upscale shoppes the world over. Well, upscale shoppes ...

We don't know if any of those stars twinkling up above have six points, but we're not the first to wonder whether the planets they're orbiting keep kosher. If a UFO were to land tomorrow, we should be so lucky ...

Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist, deals with his own mortality.

According to Susan Lukas, author of Where to Start and What to Ask, why is a "confrontational word,an antagonistic word that seeks accountability."So it's telling that Yoni Wolf, a Berkeley, California.eccentric chose Why? as his moniker—essentially, Yoni and his music are one big collective question posed to the indie rock scene. And with every record that he releases, we get closer and closer to a satisfying answer.

In Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired, Marina Zenovich surveys the underreported details of Roman Polanski's rocky trial for statutory rape

Most recognizable for her portrayal of the Orthodox daughter of a kidney-transplant consortium manager on Curb Your Enthusiasm, Iris Bahr isnothing like that snippy prude who gets stuck on a ski lift with Lar...

Novelist and screenwriter Jerry Stahl talks about self-loathing, his most recent novel, Pain Killers and finding humor in the Third Reich.

On the television series Mad Men, Rachel Menken is a second-generation Manhattan merchant who gives her father's department store an overhaul. In season one of the Eisenhower-era drama, which aired on AMC earli...

Although we at Heeb demonstrate our love for the panoplies of mosaics of rainbows that is New York-area Ashkenazi Jewry (plus that one Persian girl with the adorable English accent), our detractors often label us "self-hating." The truth is, however, that we are inordinately and completely irrationally fond of ourselves. But that doesn't mean that we feel the same about all our fellow tribesmen and women. Below are some of the Jews from past and present who we absolutely love to hate.

So what exactly do the blood-guzzling Nazi zombies in Tommy Wirkola's Dead Snow (Død snø) tell us about what's lurking in the current collective unconscious? Do the Nazi dead still haunt us?

Last summer, Heeb brought you the first-ever Jewish Swimsuit Calendar. In this issue, we are proud to right this inequity with a sampling of some of Germany's finest beefcakes—stripped of their lederhosen—for your lusty eyes.