Casting Hopefuls for _The Hobbit_
Last weekend at Comic-Con in San Diego, Lord of the Rings' Peter Jackson said he would be submitting a script for The Hobbit to Warner Bros. in the coming weeks.As soon as Jackson gets the green light, he will ...
_Sit Down, Shut Up_: The _Heeb_ Review
Last night, at around 8:30 p.m. Eastern Standard Time, you may have noticed a giant sucking sound. That would have been the sound of Fox's new animated show, Sit Down, Shut Up, sucking. Created by Arrested Deve...
The 100 Greatest Jewish Movie Moments, #69 -60
69. The Front (1976)
It's sort of a buzz-kill when Jewish characters speak Hebrew like they learned it from a Reform Bar Mitzvah correspondence course. That's why we love Hecky Brown's (Zero Mostel) prayer...
_Heeb_ Presents:
Start Your Day
You skim through your morning Intelligence Brieï¬ng: Satellite images show a Russian troop build-up in Western Georgia; a fast-moving wildï¬re about 30 miles east of San Diego is spreading; ...
_Heeb_ Storytelling Returns to Washington, D.C.
Heeb Magazine's critically-acclaimed storytelling series returns to the nation's capital on Monday, November 17 with seven-minute Jewish stories from Mark Katz (Bill Clinton speech writer), Michael Hear...
Bark Mitzvah Boy
There's nothing like a cute video of a dog having a $10,000 Bark Mitzvah thrown by his "owner" to take my mind off the fact that I'm several hundred dollars short for my upcoming rent.By my calculations a dog c...
End of the Tori
Back in some issue or another, Jewdar expressed our reservations about the new 90210 (among other things West Beverly's huge Iranian Jewish population seems to be represented by a character who's an Iranian Sci...
Not Your Bubbe’s Mormonism
Some people may have complained about our swimsuit calendar, but at least they keep their opinions in the realm of mature discourse. It looks like the Mormons take a different approach: the creator of the recen...
In Defense of Mr. Morgenstern
It's not safe to say anything negative about the Dark Knight in public for fear of facing the fan-boy-mafia firing squad, lined up to pop their juicy zits on you. Wall Street Journal film critic Joe Morgenstern...
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://...
Something to Sneeze At
First, Mel Gibson, then Ann Coulter, now it's Halle Berry.
In the latest installment of _Gotcha: The Game of Jewish Paranoia_, Halle Berry "apologized yesterday":http://blackvoices.aol.com/blogs/2007/10/23/...
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...
