So, apparently Jennifer Thornburg of North Carolina was so riled up about having to dissect animals in science class that she legally changed to her name to "CutoutDissection.com"-- the address for a ...
Apparently, it's okay to shoot wolves from planes, but not to swing a little poultry around. Animal rights activists have decided to start making threats to a New York City rabbi in opposition to the Yom Kippur...
Andy Martin,whoin 1986 ranfor Congress on an anti Jew-Power platform, is an amazing, first-rate all American nutcase. As reported in The Nation about a year ago, Martin is probably the one responsible for terri...
The guy who thought that breaking bread was a way to bring people together needs to spend some time in the modern Middle East. First, there were the Palestinians accusing Israel of appropriating falafel. Now, t...
Boris Efimov, prolific propaganda cartoonist and world's oldest Jew, is dead. Efimov, two-time winner of the much-coveted U.S.S.R. State Prize, did his most famous work for Agitprop and Pravda, taking on both N...
By Brian Heater
"What is art to you?" I'm silent for a moment. Not because I'm thinking hard about the question—at least not at first—but rather, because my first inclination upon being asked is an attempt t...
Your calendar for 5769 may already be posted on your wall, but let's not forget that 5768 wasn't too shabby in its own right. In honor of the beginning of the Jewish new year, our editors once again gaze backwa...
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...
Suburban Jewish housewife rag, Jewish Living, announced yesterday that it would be closing up shop. According to sources, investors suspended the monthly in reaction to Monday's market crash (not because it's m...
Almost lost in the shuffle of preparations for Rosh Hashanah and for Jewdar Junior's birthday party was the death of 3/4 MOT Paul Newman (only his father was Jewish, but after his decades in Hollywood, we can r...
By Simran Sethi Here's how you don't want to start an interview with the man destined to be the first Rabbi and fourth person with total blindness ever elected to the United States Congress - kvetching. But t...
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...