Is Gefilte Fish the New Bacon?
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...
Battle of the Beards
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...
Deep Economic Doo Doo
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...
Washington Man Jailed For Giving Wife Meth-Water
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...
_Heeb_ Web Exclusive: Extended Geddy Lee Interview
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...
Ruth Madoff’s High School Reunion
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...
SXSW Recap, the Recappiest
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...
Re-inking Jewish Law
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_ Storytelling Returns to New York on April 29
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...
Is That a Shankbone in Your Pocket or Are You Just Happy to See Me?
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...
Peeping Awful
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 ...
