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Wright On

While most Jewish homes will break bread among fellow crackers during Passover this month, artist/drummer LaRoi Wright has booked a dining space at the Marriott City Place in West Palm Beach, Florida, for multi...
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Double Feature

Heeb's Hasidic zombie short, Night of the Living Jews will be appearing in two film festivals this Spring: First, NOLJ screens on April 3, the opening night of the A Night of Horror Film Festival in Australia...
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Seder What?

San Francisco chefs Gayle Pirie and John Cook are stepping up to the Heeb challenge and putting a Slow Food spin on the Passover seder. On Sunday, April 20 (the second night of Passover), Heeb invites readers t...
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Jake Kasdan: The Heeb Interview

By Pamela Chelin "Until a week ago, I didn't have a wife," says writer/director Jake Kasdan while drinking a fruit smoothie and munching on a tuna melt at the 101 Cafe in Los Angeles. It's four days a...
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A Nose By Any Other Name

The Jewish Museum of Berlin opened a show last week titled "Typical! Cliches About Jews and Others" that addresses such questions as "Are blacks better athletes?" and "Do Jews have long...
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Intelligent De-Stein

Ben Stein seems so smart, what with the glasses and the monotone. I guess it's because he was intelligently designed. Really Ben Stein? A documentary about how "Big Science" has expelled intelligent d...
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First They Came for the Madams…

Proving yet again that the world has learned nothing from the Holocaust, Spitzer-pimpette Andreia Schwartz has declared Uncle Sam's abuse of her rights to be "worse than Nazi Germany." It is in t...
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SXSW Recap, Part III

I know I promised to post this final installment yesterday, but SXSW is an exhausting enough experience that it genuinely affects the productivity of the whole following week. Frankly put, four days of constant...
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Don’t Try This At (Mel Gibson’s) Home

A tragedy occurred when a 48-year-old construction worker hung himself at the home of actor/director Mel Gibson this past Wednesday. Gibson was not around at the time of the suicide but says he feels "awf...
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Nintendo BS

A video game with a grand narrative centered on a Jewish boy living in Nazi-occupied France is currently in development for the Nintendo DS, though the company says it's unlikely to ever see the light of day. T...
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Extra Funny

Tina Fey just joined Jonah Hill, Jennifer Garner, and Rob Lowe in the cast of Ricky Gervais' upcoming directorial debut. TitledThis Side of Truth, the film is set in a futuristic world where lies don't exist an...