Bacon and its various permutations (baconnaise, bacon cupcakes and bacon books, to name a few) have been clogging the arteries of popular food culture for some time, but the craze may be going into cardiac arre...

Sometimes life plays out like a sitcom, sometimes like a dark comedy. When a Palestinian youth orchestra played music for a group of Holocaust survivors, it seemed like the kind of rare burst of humanity that m...

In what seems to Jewdar to be the basis for what may be the most awesome sitcom ever, a group of Amish took a chasidic-sponsored tour of Crown Heights, allegedly for the purpose of developing ties between the t...

Dave Praeger, author of Poop Culture and helmer of the website www.poopreport.com, hit me up to buy his site a couple days ago. Praeger explains his rationale behind the 120K asking price by pointing to its ave...

It's one thing to accidentally give your kid-sister pot brownies, but it's quite another to intentionally give your nursing wife methampethamine-laced water. The latter, it turns out,gets you arrested forall so...

Rush bassist/lead singer Geddy Lee is a rock icon. He is also Gary Lee Weinrib, born in Willowdale, Toronto, to Holocaust survivors Mary and Morris Weinrib. Perhaps this provides a clue as to why so many confus...

We generally don't make a habit of publishing pages of people's high school reunion albums, but we couldn't resist when this gem came to our attention courtesy of longtime _Heeb_ contributor Shonda Lear. Take a...

With all due respect to my colleague Yasha, as a seven-year SXSW veteran, I know how to cram in as many bands as possible in a four day period. And so a week after the Southern rock insanity, as I reminisce ove...

My peeps over at Needles and Sins posted an extremely interesting interview between writer Craig Dershowitz and Orthodox Rabbi Henry Harris. Whether or not this is really "The Definitive Guide to Jewish Th...

Heeb Magazine's critically-acclaimed (by our parents) storytelling series returns to Joe's Pub in New York City on Wednesday, April 29 at 7 p.m. Enjoy seven-minute Jewish tales from actor Nathan Phillips, comed...

King of Swing Larry Levenson is dead and Plato's Retreat is long gone (you still can see a documentary about those days of swinging Jew sex), but there are still plenty of sick-and-twisted semites getting freak...

As a child, I was always kind of jealous of Christian kids. Why? Well, for Easter, Christian children get to eat candy and hunt for eggs. What do we get for Passover? Big crackers and horseradish. Yeah, we get ...