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The Loneliest Iranian

In response to a tidal wave of protest against an anti-Muslim film made by a Dutch politician, an Iranian Jewish lawmaker (somehow still possible) called for the followers of all religions to protest sacrilege ...
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RASL Dazzle

The most highly anticipated comic book in years (aside from the sequel to Frank Miller's Dark Knight) doesn't feature superheroes, nor is it published by Marvel or DC. No, the title that's got graphic novel-hea...
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Things Fall Apart

It's easy to mistake Etgar Keret for light reading. With Keret, four pages is an epic tale—most of his stories weigh in at five or six paragraphs. But brevity and levity are not the same, and nowhere is this mo...
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Joanna Angel: The _Heeb_ Interview

Ever since our office screening of Joanna Angel's latest DVD, Not Another Porn Movie, interest in the porn star's career has peaked among coworkers. We tracked down the impish Jewess (and cover girl for our Pho...
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Drunken Donuts

This past Sunday in Fremont, New Hampshire, a Christian woman on her way to Bible study class was arrested for DWI with a blood-alcohol level above .16. She also, as the local paper put it, "failed to nego...
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Umanic Panic

El Al was helpless when a riot broke out on its flight to Kiev on Sunday morning. Apparently, a group of Chasidim traveling to the grave of Rav Nachman in Uman became enraged when the flight started to show a f...