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Name Shame

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 ...
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Playing Chicken

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...
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Chickpeas of Wrath

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...
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Real Life Methuselah Dies

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...
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Heeb Best of 5768: Books

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...
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_Silver Jew_: The _Heeb_ Review

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...
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_Jewish Living_ Craps Out

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...
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Ari ben Canaan, ZT”L

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...
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Dennis Shulman: The _Heeb_ Interview

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...