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Coming to a Newsstand Near You

In other important media news, barely legal hottie Zac Efron (he's Jewish, ladies!) and his "disgraced":http://www.tmz.com/2007/09/06/hsm-nude-pic-its-the-real-deal/ girlfriend and _High School Musical_ co-star...
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Sikh of it All

The New York City Mayor's Office proclaimed this week "Sikh Heriage Week" to recognize the rich diversity, history and culture of the Sikh people. These are tough times for the Sikhs, who find themselves increa...
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_Kingdom_ Coming Soon

Steven Spielberg and company have announced the title for the fourth Indiana Jones installment and "gloves have already come off in the blogosphere":http://blogs.tampabay.com/80s/2007/09/indiana-jones.html. It'...
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Jewdar

*Fall Of Hope* We are rapidly approaching that special time of redemption and renewal—we speak, of course, of the new fall television season. Once again, the network execs have somehow forgotten to solicit Jew...
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All About My Other

Last year, Ari Sandel's "_West Bank Story_":http://www.westbankstory.com/ somehow won an Academy Award for "Best Live Action Short Film." The film told the story of an Israeli soldier falling for a Palestinian ...
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Lost and Found

If the season finale of "_Big Love_":http://www.hbo.com/biglove/ has left you jonesing for your weekly fix of polygamist Mormons, check out "_CNN.com_":http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/09/07/lost.boys/index.html's st...
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No Mo’ Mo

After only a couple years of operation, restaurant/bar/performance space "Mo Pitkin's House of Satisfaction":http://www.mopitkins.com is "up for sale":http://www.nypost.com/seven/09052007/gossip/pagesix/pagesix...
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Minority Report

A few of years ago, we challenged "_Hyphen_,":http://www.hyphenmagazine.com/ the magazine of Asian American arts, culture and commentary to a table tennis competition to determine once and for all who owned the...
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Elsewhere in Social Networking…

Now that "Facebook is reaching beyond the college demographic,":http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20227872/site/newsweek/ social networking-wannabes are licking their chops and getting ready to prey upon what they pr...
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Perry’s a Looza?

Earlier today, _Spin_ Magazine and "Music Nation":www.MusicNation.com announced that they will be collaborating on a new project called The Hot Pursuit, "an online rock challenge" aimed at discovering the "next...
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Did Somebody Say Free?

It's not unusual for us to get free shit here at _Heeb_ HQ. On a typical day, we might be sent a pet yarmulke and tallis, a survival memoir from a third generation Holocaust survivor and a hip-hop demo from a h...