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This Charming Mensch

As an organization known as The Palestinian Campaign for the academic and cultural boycot of Israel issued a letter condemming St. Morrissey for announcing his plans to play Israel this summer. As it stands, th...
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Waiter, Some Ice?

This week in Oviedo, Florida, a spitball fight broke out among some girls at Chili's. One 18-year old brat was arrested for chucking a water glass at one of her peers, which struck an innocent bystander's baby ...
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Jewish Nerd Alert!

This weekend at the New York Comic-Con in New York, fan boys will flock to all the graphic novel and toy booths to check out all their favorite heroes and villains, Star Wars certainly not withstanding. ...
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Cruz Control

On David Beckham's arm is a tattoo of a Hebrew phrase that reads: "I am my beloved and my beloved is mine." The soccer star who alleges to be half-Jewish has now snuck his beloved three-year-old son ...
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_Strange Culture_: The _Heeb_ Review

I hate it when film reviews are basically synopses, but you need some background on this one. What a fucking story. This artist Steve Kurtz, has been working for years with a collective that blends science and ...
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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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...