What Would Barbra Do?
Barbra Streisand, the unofficial Patron Saint of Heeb, recently donated to $5 million to LA's Cedars-Sinai Medical for a women's heart education and research program. We commend her generosity and look forward...
The 11th Plague
William Shatner has gone from spaceship captain to Ben Folds sidekick to talking head for an online flight-booking company. It seems only natural that his next step would be to take on Biblical storytelling.In...
Mick Jones: The _Heeb_ interview
By Jay Diamond"He is in rare form and has had a couple of beers," said the manager of Mick Jones, former guitarist and co-songwriter of the legendary punk band, The Clash. Jones, is currently on tour ...
Shik of It All
This week the crappy emo-band Say Anything dropped the video for their song "Shiksa," which manages to do what no Jewish outreach organization has managed to do as well: make interfaith dating seem c...
Khaled: The Heeb Interview
This piece was originally published in April, 2008.
For the most part DJ Khaled doesn't actually make the music on his solo albums; the Miami radio personality farms the brunt of that work out to superst...
If Only Eliot Spitzer Had Been a Graduate of John School Instead of Harvard
According to a soon-to-be-released study by the U.S. Department of Justice, "johns" who attend a "john school" are thirty percent less likely to pay for sex again. The john school concept be...
Year of the Rat
Step off, Mickey. The gun-toting, drug-dealing cartoon characters known as the Three Thug Mice inhabit a New York that thrived before the Disneyfication of 42nd Street. In 35 animated shorts that began airing o...
It’s Not Easy Being Goy
Cheryl Hines was Larry David's object of affection/affliction for six seasons on Curb Your Enthusiasm and the covergirl for our Goy Issue last year, but now it appears she's going to take a turn playing for the...
Better Late Than Never
It took three years almost to the day of its release, but The Big Book of Jewish Conspiracies, the magnum opus by David Deutsch and Josh Neuman, has finally gotten a mention in the NY Times. Just for that w...
Our Passover
The blogosphere is on fire with Passover stories and new spins on the seder. Chow posted a Southern Seder menu, the Daily Green did a Sustainable Passover story with help from the folks at The Jew and The Carro...
Crapaccino
With staple dishes like blood pudding and jellied eels it's no wonder that our chums across the pond have long been struggling with their ‘worst cuisine in the world' PR crisis. Now, one London- based coffee...
Say Privyet to My Bitter Friend!
Sure, being in the American military has its advantages - namely, access to big, noisy killing machines - but it also has its drawbacks. Like street fighting in an Iraqi city whose name you can't pronounce. Oh,...
