Jeffrey Ross: The Heeb Interview
I ran into the comedian Jeffrey Ross at a dinner for the Creative Coalition in D.C. at the restaurant Teatro Goldoni where he speculated that the Lincoln Bible was way holier than the Torah. Ross was there alon...
_Heeb_ @ Sundance: A Recap
I just got backfrom Park Citylate last night. I'm f-ing exhausted and bleary-eyed, fo' shizzle, but I thought I owed you folks a recap of the fest. Here goes: Former Onion editor turned screenwriter Robert Sieg...
First _Heeb_ Magazine, Next an Oscar?
Courtney Love isn't the only female badass to grace the pages of Heeb's Wasted Issue. Check out our interview with Melissa Leo. Though Leo hasn't been able to grab headlines with "anti-Semitic rants," she foun...
The Obamas, Stimulating the Economy One Crappy Product at a Time
You have the t-shirt. You have the button. Hell, you've even stuffed your face with the Obama cupcake. Still can't get enough of the first family? Well, now your children can join in the fun of rampant consumer...
_Heeb_ @ Sundance: _The Wrestler_ and _Big Fan_ Writer, Robert Siegel
Robert Siegel left his post as editor-in-chief of the Onion to do what all writers eventually try their hand at: write screenplays. How'd that work out for him? He wrote the words that lead to Mickey Rourke's O...
_Heeb_ @ Sundance: Nicholas Kristof
Nicholas Kristof, two-time Pulitzer-winning Times columnist, wants us to care. And he knows what he's up against.The Sundance documentary Reporter follows Nick through life-risking trips in Afghanistan, Darfur ...
Inside Beit T’Shuvah
Text by Malina SavalIt was a soul sickness that 26-year-old Noah Jashinski (top photo) says he was suffering from. It stemmed from a failed attempt at rock ‘n roll stardom after stints playing back-up for Sma...
_Heeb_ @ Sundance: Sentimental Boys
500 Days of Summer, a post-modern love story, unfolds by juxtaposing the high and low points of a failed romance, constantly jumping back and forth in time. In a bit of a role reversal from traditional romantic...
Breaking: Courtney Love NOT Anti-Semitic
We've heard it from bloggers, the Post and our readers—Courtney Love is anti-Semitic. Yeah, yeah, she made a crack about "Jew loan officers" and "Jew private banks," true. But one out of context comment does no...
Last Licks
And so we have reached the end of the administration of the man many Jews consider "the best friend Israel ever had" in the White House. To recap for those who weren't paying attention, since then, Is...
Is Beastiality the New Black?
As per last week's posting on Amazon reviewer Ari Brouillette, witty internet commentary is, in my (small and humble) opinion, the written word's most exciting unmined art form. That said, I've recently taken ...
The Rest is Cream Cheese
Nevermind what the critics are saying. Allen Salkin's piece about Bernie Madoff's frat brothers in the Sunday Styles Section was not only a deft curve ball for the paper of record, but also--with the exception ...
