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The Jewkbox Presents: Magnolia Electric Co.

There's no mistaking Jason Molina's sad croon-- it falls somewhere between Neil Young's falsetto and Will Oldham's guttural rasp. And, on Josephine (Secretly Canadian), the first album from Magnolia Electric Co...
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David Letterman Inspires Yiddish Rage

For the most part, this whole David Letterman/Sarah Palin controversy has been rather yawn-worthy, but every cloud has its silver lining. In this case, that lining is freaking gold. Check out this video from a ...
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Dov Charney Can’t Get A Break

Dov Charney, the American Apparel entrepreneur everyone loves to hate, is back on the chopping block this week in the Upright Citizens Brigade's new mocumentary, American Apparel: Everyday Sexy. In the sketch,...
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Baron Cohen Bares All

It seems like every schlubby Jew worth his salt is going native on the cover of national magazines. First, Seth Rogen, Paul Rudd, Jonah Hill and Jason Segel dropped trou on the cover of Vanity Fair, and now Sac...
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Crooked Monkey: The _Heeb_ Interview

Micha Weinblatt is the 26-year-old founder and CEO of the online T-shirt store, Crooked Monkey. His shirts have been worn by Ryan Seacrest, Taylor Swift and Miley Cyrus, and the company has been featured in Sev...
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God Is Now Following You On Twitter!

Thank God (literally)--there's finally a CliffsNotes version of the Bible for the technologically dependent generation. The Protestant Church in Germany has come to the aid of the iGeneration, mobilizing 3,000 ...
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Yahweh Helps Jew Escape From Cops

Everyone's seen videos that show some seemingly harmless crazy guy being tased by the cops. What makes the above video so much better than the rest is that it provides us with the fairy-tale ending we always c...
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He’s Got Some Serious Wood

On the way home from shooting a bat mitzvah in Boca Raton, Brooklyn photographer Peter Svarzbein happened upon this lumber company in Hanover, Pennsylvania, which was actually founded by a dude named J.A. Schmu...
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The Jewkbox Presents: Discovery

What do you get when two of the biggest indie pop bands in the known universe join forces for some side project action? When its Rostam Batmanglij of Vampire Weekend and Wes Miles of Ra Ra Riot and that side pr...
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Mayor Bloomberg Miffed About Jailhouse Mitzvah

Looking for the perfect place to hold your son's Bar Mitzvah? Well, according to The New York Post, Tuvia Stern locked down the most exclusive digs in town--literally. Stern, a wealthy New York inmate, convince...
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“Follow Your Dreams,” Says Eugene Mirman

Since giving Heeb advice on how to get groupies, Eugene Mirman has been touring the high school circuit dispensing with the knowledge. Recently, he ended up at alma mater Lexington High School to give the class...
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Taylor Made

The problem with being a Jewish humorist is that life has a disturbing tendency to turn your jokes into reality. It seems like just yesterday that we were cracking wise about the likelihood of Mahmoud Ahmadinej...