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The Farfour Declaration

It's with great sadness that I announce the "death of Farfour":http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/06/29/hamas.mouse.ap/index.html, Hamas' version of Mickey Mouse. It seems that the "previously blogged about":h...
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Weekly Learning

In honor of the release of the much-anticipated "iPhone":http://www.apple.com/iphone/ (hailed as a revolutionary gadget that will change the face of electronics), this week's roundup pays homage to all the thin...
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Sha-shmor-tion

If you loved _Knocked Up_ (which, obviously, "we did":http://heebmagazine.com/blog/view/103), "here's":http://funnyordie.com/videos/ea63b6f9a0 a little bonus footage, courtesy of Funnyordie.com, the the website...
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Hamalot

According to "_Science Daily,_":http://www.sciencedaily.com/upi/index.php?feed=Science&article=UPI-1-20070624-17113900-bc-britain-breakfast.xml British scientists have found that ham and cheese improves childre...
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I’ll Bury Paul

While as a rule, what goes on in Jewdar's home stays in Jewdar's home, the missus and I have had a contretemps and now, as per the rules of reality TV, leave it up to you, the audience, to decide the outcome. I...
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Black and White

Who needs diversity? "Certainly not public schools.":http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/28/us/28cnd-scotus.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin...
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Paris Ad Nauseam

Is Lindsay Lohan going to "play Paris Hilton on screen":http://uk.news.yahoo.com/itn/20070627/ten-lohan-set-for-paris-role-ea4616c.html? But wait, let's rewind... there's going to be a Paris Hilton biopic??...
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Storytelling

Heeb's critically acclaimed Storytelling series presents Jewish stories from an ever-changing crew of performers across the country. We now give you Heeb _Storytelling in its online incarnation. Check back here...
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Our Continuing Paris Hilton Coverage

As we all know, "Larry King interviewed Paris Hilton last night":http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/TV/06/27/paris.interview/index.html. I tried to sit through the video interview and failed. Then I tried to read...
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No, No, No

We've been huge Amy Winehouse fans for years (thanks to our tapped-in British coworker), and we're trying to be supportive now that she's in her crazy-anorexic-drugged-out-toothless phase. But the girl is makin...
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Finkelstein’s Monster

Stop eating for Norman Finkelstein? Yesterday, "students":http://chronicle.com/news/article/2562/student-will-begin-hunger-strike-in-support-of-depaul-professors-denied-tenure at DePaul began a hunger strike pr...