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Man of the Year?

Jewdar's coveted Man of the Year Award for 2007 (we know, we know, it's a day or too late, but we had to make sure that all the ballots were in) goes to Will Smith. As many Jewdar devotees may know by now, not...
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Farsical

"On _Slate_":http://www.slate.com/id/2179830/, Bonnie Goldstein writes that Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad "seems to welcome dissent" on his "official blog":http://www.ahmadinejad.ir/. Goldstein is corre...
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Quit Crying

Just because you're a Jew doesn't mean you've got to boo-hoo-hoo on Christmas Eve. Tonight, _Heeb_'s party-of-the-year is going off simultaneously in New York, Los Angeles, Denver, Chicago and Portland. Rehab w...
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Borat is Dead, Long Live Baron Cohen

Sad news: In a rare "interview":http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2007/12/21/bfborat121.x with _The Telegraph_, actor/comedian/genius Sacha Baron Cohen reveals that he is laying to rest the c...
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Last Minute Gift Idears

About a month ago, we asked bargain hunters Lester Silvergold and Ruth Diamond-Phillips to create a holiday gift guide for you, beloved _Heeb_ reader. "Here, Lester and Ruth present some terrific ideas":http://...
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Return of the Deli

Yesterday was the official sausage-cutting for the brand-new uptown incarnation of the famed 2nd Avenue Deli. In case you were too busy to make a pilgrimage (like "we were":http://heebmagazine.com/blog/view/461...
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Prepuceterous!

Apparently, the only piece of Jesus that didn't rise to heaven—his foreskin— "is missing.":http://www.startribune.com/lifestyle/faith/12248886.html The prepuce had supposedly been kept above the altar of a chur...
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It’s A Mad Mad World

"Something is very wrong with me," says Frank Einstein in the first issue of Mike Allred's cult-classic comic book series, _Madman_, published sporadically since the early '90s. Frank's insecurity stems from hi...

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