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Trouble at the Rosenkrantz Ranch

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It was June of 1985, but when Robert Rosenkrantz fired ten bullets into high school classmate Steve Redman, it felt like something out of the Wild West. Twenty-three years later, Rosenkrantz is out of prison. Allen Salkin remembers a murder that grabbed the attention of a California town and the gay community nation-wide.
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If You Build It

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"I first went to Israel in 1959 and I have very fond memories of it," Richard Meier tells me from his office in New York City. "I never thought I'd actually have the opportunity to work there." Thanks to the...
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Web Exclusive!

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17 · The Notorious Issue, Archives
Who
Tony Curtis
His game
Bernie Schwartz's parents came to the US from Satmar because it was the land of opportunity. Changing his name to Tony Curtis, he became one of the hottest commodities in Hollywood in the 1950's, earning an Oscar nod and screen time with some of Tinseltown's biggest names (including a spot on The Flintstones as "Stony Curtis").
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From Prussia, With Love

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Back in 1906, a ne'er do well Prussian cobbler assembled something resembling an officer's uniform, commandeered a handful of soldiers, and marched them off to the nearby town of Kopenick where he seized the to...
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Daniel Libeskind: The _Heeb_ Interview

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by Amy Westervelt Polish-born, New York-based architect Daniel Libeskind first came to the attention of the architecture world when his Jewish museum in Berlin was unveiled in September 2001. Coincidentally, th...
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Fedorable?

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Evidently, the fedora is back. A favorite of celebs like Britney Spears, Johnny Depp, and Al Capone, the fedora seems to be crowning the crowns of male and female alike. (Oddly enough, however, I've seen neithe...
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Ojos Rojos: The _Heeb_ Interview

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Claremont, California's musical son may be Ben Harper and Snoop Dogg may currently reside there, but Ojos Rojos is the new shining light of the quiet college town on the east end of Los Angeles. Ojos Rojos play...
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Quotes for Quotes

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First they launched a new entertainment (read "celebrity") division, then they got caught writing Britney Spears' obit early, now the A.P. is selling quotation licenses. I guess it's true that newspap...
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Karma Comedian

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We at Jewdar were delighted to hear that some self-declared defender of Hinduism has taken it upon himself to take a stand against The Love Guru. According to Rajan Zed, the movie lampoons Hinduism and uses te...
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Crown Princesses

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Back in 2006, Juive au jus Alexandra Rosenfeld won Miss France and went on to take Miss Europe. As is usually the case, it takes a little while for French fashions to make their way across the Channel, but th...
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The _Heeb_ Olympics and You!

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Compete in the _Heeb_ Olympics, a reality competition pitting four athletes (we use that term loosely) against one another in games ranging from "Yarmulke Discus" to "Gefilte Fish Wrestling."...