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_Heeb_ Best of 5768: Film

Your calendar for 5769 may already be posted on your wall, but let's not forget that 5768 wasn't too shabby in its own right. In honor of the beginning of the Jewish new year, our editors once again gaze backwa...
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_Silver Jew_: The _Heeb_ Review

In Heeb‘s summer issue, David Berman spoke about his fraught relationship with Israel. Now, Michael Tully's stirring new film Silver Jew (DVD released by Drag City) follows Berman and the band during their 20...
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_Heeb_ Best of 5768: Music

Your calendar for 5769 may already be posted on your wall, but let's not forget that 5768 wasn't too shabby in its own right. In honor of the beginning of the Jewish new year, our editors once again gaze backwa...
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_Jewish Living_ Craps Out

Suburban Jewish housewife rag, Jewish Living, announced yesterday that it would be closing up shop. According to sources, investors suspended the monthly in reaction to Monday's market crash (not because it's m...
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_Heeb_ Best of 5768: Comics

Your calendar for 5769 may already be posted on your wall, but let's not forget that 5768 wasn't too shabby in its own right. In honor of the beginning of the Jewish new year, our editors once again gaze backwa...
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Ari ben Canaan, ZT”L

Almost lost in the shuffle of preparations for Rosh Hashanah and for Jewdar Junior's birthday party was the death of 3/4 MOT Paul Newman (only his father was Jewish, but after his decades in Hollywood, we can r...
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Fashion Police

Brüno, a.k.a Sacha Baron Cohen, was forceably removed from a Prada fashion show by authorities in Milan after making an uninvited appearance on the catwalk wearing a bizarre self- styled outfit. The stunt was ...
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Dennis Shulman: The _Heeb_ Interview

By Simran Sethi Here's how you don't want to start an interview with the man destined to be the first Rabbi and fourth person with total blindness ever elected to the United States Congress - kvetching. But t...
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The Scarlett Wedder

Voluptuous starlett (according to the Chicago Manual of Style, anyone writing about her must mention her curves) Scarlett Johansson got married on Saturday. The lucky groom is Ryan Reynolds, who was formerly en...
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The M.O.T. Heard Round the World

Not since 1945 when Hank Greenberg clinched the American League pennant with a grand slam on the final day of the season, has a more dramatic home run been generated from a Jewish bat. Yesterday, with one swi...

Harvey Pekar: 1939-2010

In Heeb's Politics Issue, Pekar (R.I.P.) asks the question: Are God's Children too stupid? Click here to view the full comic....

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