Author sabrina_jaszi

Filling a very unique niche, Rabbi Shmuley Boteach has made quite a name for himself, advising self-helpers and listeners of Sirius XM's Oprah & Friends Channel (Gail's personal sounding board), in need of ...

Yesterday in Berlin, two paintings were returned to the estate of a Jewish art dealer, forced by Nazis to sell off his entire collection in that period. Needling back a couple of pieces of art may seem like no ...

Political poetry is back. And Matthew Zapruder and Joshua Beckman's State of the Union: 50 Political Poems (Wave Books) is proof positive. Like Homer and the lyricists of old, the diverse group of poets here re...

Last month Sarah Silverman launched her plans to get out the Jewish vote in Florida. In Pennsylvania, the flavor of the month state for both candidates, a group calling itself the "Republican Federal Commi...

In Heeb‘s summer issue, David Berman spoke about his fraught relationship with Israel. Now, Michael Tully's stirring new film Silver Jew (DVD released by Drag City) follows Berman and the band during their 20...

By Sabrina JasziYears ago, we singled out Matt Wolf as a fledgling talent at NYU's film school and elevated him as the first ever member of the Heeb 100. Now, at the tender age of 26, Wolf's feature directoria...

By Sabrina Jaszi Governor Sarah Palin's fervent Christian minions may be the public face of Alaska, but in the state's House of Representatives, a group of Jewish politicians are increasingly casting long shado...

by Sabrina JasziIt's common enough for Hollywood films to totter precariously on the dubious virtues of a single big star, stellar special effects or a behind-the-scenes genius, often with mediocre results. Bu...

As a German Jew in Prague, Kafka developed a rhetoric of alienation, tied closely to the cold prose of German, but was also drawn inexorably to the emotive Czech lanugauge from which he was excluded. How strang...

The _Heeb_ Olympics aren't the only Olympic Games going on right now. In Beijing, two medal winners from the warring republics of Russia and Georgia had spectators oohing and ahhing when they embraced tenderly...