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Funny in Bed

"I whored myself for _Heeb_":http://video.dotcomedy.com/player/?id=141985 on Cara Jedell's digital show _Funny in Bed_ at _dotcomedy.com_. How's that for my first blog entry? ...
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The Jewish Derek Harper?

You know, _Heeb_ introduced you to "Matisyahu":http://www.heebmagazine.com/articles/view/58 in 2004, Miranda July in 2003 and Jonathan Safran Foer way back in 2002 (apologies for that one). But if you ask me, r...
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Oy to the World

We've always believed that "complaining":http://heebmagazine.com/articles/view/85 is an art form and now we have a few more whiny voices behind us. International "artists":http://www.ykon.org/kochta-kallein...
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Do You Feel a Draft?

At a time when our beloved army is forced to resort to ever more "desperate":http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20205033/ means to maintain a force which is increasingly "corpulent":http://www.boston.com/news/nation/a...
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Weekly Learning

For those of you who haven't turned on the news in a couple of days (but, of course, frequent this informative website), there was a tornado in Brooklyn. And besides being terrifying for residents and annoying ...
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Word to Your Bubbe

In a cyberworld populated with "pedophiles,":http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/2007/07/31/pedophile-s-blog-angers-parents.aspx "white supremacists":http://www.stormfront.org/forum/showthread....
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Pissen Contest

Ah, the beauty of German engineering. This time, the Deustchlanders came up with the poetically named "Piss-Screen":http://www.piss-screen.de/, a video game where you control the movement of your car by the dir...
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Beastie Boys Bust Brooklyn Cherries

Believe it or not, tonight is the first time the Beastie Boys will ever perform in Brooklyn (that is, if you don't count when they used to practice in MCA's parents' basement). Earlier today, at a press confere...
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Damned Yankees

In yet another example of America's heady cultural imperialism, Boston-based entrepreneur Larry Baras is bringing our national pastime to the Holy Land; June 24 will mark the opening day of the Israeli Baseball...
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Amber Waves of Disdain

I do not purport to have any idea who she is talking to, nor why she is whispering, but it's painfully clear that 27-year-old Amber Siyavus of "_Big Brother 8_":http://www.cbs.com/primetime/bigbrother8/guests/a...
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I Got it from My Ima

Last year, the "Black Eyed Peas held a concert in Tel Aviv.":http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyAd-BGGxJw On September 9, they're back in Israel, this time to headline "Jerusalem Rocks!":http://www.jerusalemrocks...