Many observers on the Israel scene were wringing their hands when "Burger King":http://www.jerusalem.muni.il/jer_sys/picture/atarim/site_form_atar_eng.asp?site_id=1010&pic_cat=4&icon_cat=6&york_cat=9&type_id=15...

Last year, Ari Sandel's "_West Bank Story_":http://www.westbankstory.com/ somehow won an Academy Award for "Best Live Action Short Film." The film told the story of an Israeli soldier falling for a Palestinian ...

If the season finale of "_Big Love_":http://www.hbo.com/biglove/ has left you jonesing for your weekly fix of polygamist Mormons, check out "_CNN.com_":http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/09/07/lost.boys/index.html's st...

This Saturday from 2-6pm, I will be manning _Heeb_'s table at the Cup and Pen Small Small Press Fair at "Think Coffee":http://www.thinkcoffeenyc.com in Manhattan. No, you're right, _Heeb_ is not a small small p...

After only a couple years of operation, restaurant/bar/performance space "Mo Pitkin's House of Satisfaction":http://www.mopitkins.com is "up for sale":http://www.nypost.com/seven/09052007/gossip/pagesix/pagesix...

Filmmaker Wendla Nölle brings her documentary The Chosen Ones to New York for a premiere screening tomorrow night. The debut film, which includes an interview with yours truly (sporting an unfortunate haircut ...

"If it's yellow, let it mellow and if it's brown, flush it down." Well, what about when it's a dismembered cock? Last week, some guy in Spain "chopped off his chorizo and threw it in the toilet":http://www.expa...

We have lower back pain in every inch of our bodies, but are psyched to have endured _Heeb_ HQ's move from SoHo to "DUMBO":http://dumbonyc.com/. It took three days and (more impressively) three Jewish men layin...

Rabbi Nachum Shifren, otherwise known as the "Surfing Rabbi" is divinely inspired by the waves of Malibu, CA where he teaches surfing to people of all faiths and denominations, including at risk kids in the Los...

Okay, so there "might not be anything newsy":http://www.heebmagazine.com/blog/view/278 about a former child star getting rough with a lady friend or having to go to rehab, but you gotta take a look at "yesterda...

A few of years ago, we challenged "_Hyphen_,":http://www.hyphenmagazine.com/ the magazine of Asian American arts, culture and commentary to a table tennis competition to determine once and for all who owned the...

We last saw Jared of the Black Lips (far right, not the zebra) in July at the "Diamond Days Festival.":http://www.heebmagazine.com/blog/view/253 This month you can check him out (along with the rest of the ban...