Exclusive: Hear Gary Shteyngart Read Etgar Keret’s New Book
Listen to an exclusive track from Etgar Keret's forthcoming Suddenly A Knock on the Door audiobook read by Gary Shteyngart.
Act Out Your Feelings with The Passover Puppet Haggadah
It's the last minute before Passover and you've suddenly decided you want to run a Seder. Perhaps this Puppet Hagaddah will help you work through your frustration
Translating God and Others: An Interview with Nathan Englander
Author Nathan Englander talks to Heeb about his irreligiosity, the difference between Etgar Keret and God and how you don't have to be a Jedi to watch Star Wars.
Chosen Books: New American Haggadah
This coming passover, everything will be illuminated at the seder table with Jonathan Safran Foer's new Haggadah.
Moshe Kasher on Moshe Kasher: A Comedian Interviews Himself
Comedian Moshe Kasher has a new book out, and Heeb contributor Moshe Kosher couldn't wait to bag an exclusive interview with him. It's complicated...
Crooks and Schnooks
Israeli pol says Reform Jews are 'anti-Semites,' a baby dies from a haredi penis-sucking circumcision ritual, sex trafficker wears yarmulke to court.
Etgar Keret: Israel’s Nonchalant Magical Realist
The Israeli author opens up about reading translations of his work, moving into film and why his mother shouldn't kick his son.
Book Review: God vs. Gay? The Religious Case for Equality
Jayson Littman reviews Jay Michaelson's fourth book.
Prohibition Ain’t No Fiction
The full title of the tome is Jews and Booze: Becoming American in the Age of Prohibition, which might lead some would-be readers to visions of bootlegging Jewish gangsters. While Jewdar’s always happy to read that, this book offers a much broader and more interesting array of Semitic experiences.
“Oy! Only Six? Why Not More?” Six Words on Heebish Life + Hanukkah Contest
Win one of eight copies of the Six Words on Jewish life book, one on each night of Hanukkah to the best memoir.
Liverspotting: Old Jewish Comedians by Drew Friedman
One of the most searing satirists working in any medium, Drew Friedman depicts the grit behind the glamour in disarming detail. Eli Valley talks to him about his latest work, Even More Old Jewish Comedians.
Al Jaffee’s Snappy Answers To Stupid Questions: Video from Heeb Storytelling
See video of Al Jaffee doing "Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions."
