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Jake Kasdan: The Heeb Interview

By Pamela Chelin "Until a week ago, I didn't have a wife," says writer/director Jake Kasdan while drinking a fruit smoothie and munching on a tuna melt at the 101 Cafe in Los Angeles. It's four days a...
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A Nose By Any Other Name

The Jewish Museum of Berlin opened a show last week titled "Typical! Cliches About Jews and Others" that addresses such questions as "Are blacks better athletes?" and "Do Jews have long...
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First They Came for the Madams…

Proving yet again that the world has learned nothing from the Holocaust, Spitzer-pimpette Andreia Schwartz has declared Uncle Sam's abuse of her rights to be "worse than Nazi Germany." It is in t...
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Jews for _Geez_

Geez Magazine: Holy mischief in an age of fast faith is sorta like our Christian doppelganger. Created by Adbusters' Aiden Enns, Geez describes itself as "untangle the narrative of faith from the fundamentalist...
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Milton Burlesque

Jewdar's incredible devotion to the faith of our fathers prohibits us from viewing such things as burlesque (on the other hand, we do get to have concubines and smite Amalekites, so we still come out ahead in o...
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SXSW Recap, Part III

I know I promised to post this final installment yesterday, but SXSW is an exhausting enough experience that it genuinely affects the productivity of the whole following week. Frankly put, four days of constant...
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Don’t Try This At (Mel Gibson’s) Home

A tragedy occurred when a 48-year-old construction worker hung himself at the home of actor/director Mel Gibson this past Wednesday. Gibson was not around at the time of the suicide but says he feels "awf...
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Extra Funny

Tina Fey just joined Jonah Hill, Jennifer Garner, and Rob Lowe in the cast of Ricky Gervais' upcoming directorial debut. TitledThis Side of Truth, the film is set in a futuristic world where lies don't exist an...
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Bombs, Obama and Rock & Roll

Straight from the mind of the pop genius who brought us such gems as "I Hate Israel" and "Hey People, It Was Only a Tower" comes the campaign tribute Obama doesn't want anyone to hear: "...
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Jew No-No

As Tolstoy noted, "Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." A similar observation may be made about humor. Funny is funny, but unfunny, well, there are lots of wa...
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Benjy Bronk: The _Heeb_ Interview

Benjy Bronk has come a long way in radio, and in a pretty damn short amount of time. Back in 1998, Bronk was hired as an intern for "The Howard Stern Show" on FM radio, where he was often found pullin...