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Wrong Numbers

75 percent of the Jews in America who voted in the 2004 presidential election voted for John Kerry—so why is the Republican Jewish Coalition so happy? Sara Marcus on the battle for the heart and soul of a new generation of Jewish voters.
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The Beastie Within

Ad-Rock, MCA and Mike D. discuss the best falafel in town, Uncle Freddy's Yiddish and why it's taken them so long to get on the cover of Heeb. Arye Dworken spends the day with the Beastie Boys.

An Interview with Al Franken

This interview was conducted by Heather Robinson and appeared in Heeb's "Guilt Issue" (Summer, 2004). Al Franken single-handedly smashed the stereotype of the humorless liberal. The former Saturday Night...
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Unholy Alliance

Remember the good old days when we wouldn‘t touch right-wing Plutocrats and Christian Fundamentalists with a 10-foot pole? Well, times have changed, and Esther Kaplan asks what to make of our new best buddy, George W.
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Staging Change

_(excerpted from original article)_ Kushner's combination of exacting political analysis and broad artistic vision first earned him wide acclaim in 1993 and 1994 with his play _Angels In America_. That massive...
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Torah for Pyros

Say what you will about Perry Farrell—the drug use, the flakiness—but it's hard to deny his place on many a high school soundtrack. Jane's Addiction was the music to which we drove around town aimlessly with ou...

A Conversation with Naomi Klein

This interview was conducted by Lauren Sandler and was published in the Summer of 2003. It’s not hard to imagine Naomi Klein in high school, folding shirts at the Esprit store in Montreal. But at that pa...