Hollywood loves pretty women made up to look like ugly women. Especially pretty women impersonating real, live ugly women. First Charlize Theron in Monster and now Marion Cotillard in La Vie En Rose have won be...

To much of the world, Israel is a diabolical force that manipulates the world. To those of us in the know, Israel is... well, Israel. The latest reminder of this comes from the sinister looking figure picture...

Earlier this week, we got a super early preview of the new Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco. (The press tour's not until mid-March and the museum doens't open until June 8th so, seriously, Heeb is sp...

Jewdar has spent entirely too much time in recent weeks addressing the dubious allegations (that's polite for "lies") about Barack Obama's secret Muslimitude, so we are not inclined to revisit the iss...

Austria's The Counterfeiters, which hits theaters today, follows in the tradition of another Oscar-nominated Holocaust film, Schindler's List for at its center, we find a removed and callow egoist who eventuall...

Just because some legendary romps ignore the connection between the heeby and the geeky—as Wormser can attest—that doesn't mean audiences don't notice. So hats off to the readers of Stuck in the '80s for their ...

A few weeks ago, I took some foodie types to my new favorite San Francisco restaurant, ready to delight them with my neighborhood find. Sadly, the boss lady had the flu and when the cat's away the mice will get...

When I first ran across Stripdreidel.com, not only was I disappointed that some California computer nerds had already snagged the URL that would have been perfect for our Bang Bus riff, but I decided that the c...

We're pretty sure Scarlett Johannsen has kissed girls for lots of reasons. To flirt with boys. To get attention. For money. Natalie Portman, on the other hand? Not so much. Or so we thought. In this pic of the ...

Being mostly writers ourselves, we were behind the writers in their strike. They seemed like the underdogs. Poor little slaves typing their fingers to the bone while the big shot studio execs patted each other ...

When Amy Winehouse performed at the Grammy's on Sunday (looking much healthier than we've seen in a while, thank heavens), the producers requested that she cover up the large topless woman tattooed on her arm s...