Bea Arthur: 1926-2009
Another Golden Gal bites the dust. The 86-year old stage and screen star died of cancer on Saturday. Born Bernice Frankel, she was most popularly known for her TV credits that included Emmy-award winning turns ...
Post-Ronson
No huge shocker here, but Lindsay Lohan (still reeling from her awkward breakup with Samantha Ronson) is back hunting for cock. And you'll never guess where she's hunting for it. Okay, maybe since this is _Heeb...
Fish Stories from Russ & Daughters
Just before Passover, our good friend Josh Tupper at Russ & Daughters appeared on the Martha Stewart Show to tout the now famous "Super Heeb" sandwich. Even before it was called the Super Heeb, I ...
The Writing On the Wall
DUMBO, where the Heeb offices are located, is replete with ironic graffiti (forget gang signs--you're more likely to find tags reading "Karma" in these parts). But today, as I strode towards work, I s...
Hitler’s Bad Art Sells for Thousands
Before he was Führer, Adolph Hilter was an aspiring young artist, producing oil and watercolor still life and landscape paintings. Though he was rejected from the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, Hilter support...
_Tyson_ Director James Toback on the Greatest Jewish Death Scenes
If you're not stoked yet for the documentary on the ear-biting Iron Mike (opening today), check out the roundup of infamous Jewish killings in the movies that Tyson director, James Toback, wrote for our Notorio...
With the First Pick, the Jets Select Shmuley Jackson
Jimmy Kimmel (or as he's better known in the Heeb community, "that guy who I'm funnier than, fuck why didn't I get a chance with Sarah. Sarah, I love you!"), parodied the recent NFL scheduling quirk, which had...
Postcards From Yo Momma
Heeb Hundred alum Doree Shafrir has been quite the busy lady of late. When not being profiled in the New Yorker (posh!) or the New York Times, she's editing and writing over at the New York Observer and having ...
Diamond Dealer
5,769 years in the making, there is finally a blog dedicated to Jewish baseball players. Jews on First is written by a dedicated Baltimore Jewish baseball fan who started this blog to "honor his Jewish her...
Kosher Butchers
James Toback's screenplays trail the depressing lives of an eccentric hit man (Fingers) or excessive gamblers (Black and White, Harvard Man, The Gambler) and capture the stories of the felonious titular subject...
Music Issue Release Party, Thursday Night in Brooklyn
If you're in New York on Thursday night, join us at the Glasslands Gallery (289 Kent Ave.) in Brooklyn as we celebrate the release of our Music Issue. We're teaming up with the Suckers, who are celebrating the ...
Woody Allen and Larry David to Open Tribeca Film Festival Tonight
Woody Allen's new film Whatever Works, starring Larry David in the curmudgeonly old guy role, has its world premiere as the opening night film of the Tribeca Film Festival this evening. The movie marks Allen's ...
