More in ‘Heeb’

Heeb’s mini-review of How To Make It In America notes the latent and explicit Judaism in the new HBO series. It starts with the main character, a striving, 20-something hipster named Ben Epstein (and played by Bryan Greenberg)—an alter ego, perhaps, of creator Ian Edelman?—and it goes all the way through his (even more explicitly ...

• Slate’s Jack Shafer examines the New York Times’s proclivity, evidenced in its weekend story about Montana (which we covered yesterday), for “hey-folks-we’ve-found-some-Jews-living-in-a-strange-place moments.” [Slate]
• “Is there jockeying?” a Jewish Democratic consultant says of the White House Hanukkah party guest list. “Oh my God, jockeying is a polite word.” [WaPo]
• Heeb magazine compares the two ...

Media gossip blog Gawker has put the snarky Jewish magazine Heeb on a “deathwatch” for imminent closure. A number of anonymous sources have apparently told Gawker that the magazine is on the brink of folding. Heeb “was able to live high on the hog when there was a lot of money coming in, like around ...

Heeb Magazine has announced its annual list of 100 Jews to watch. Some of our favorites among the honorees, along with insights they’ve shared with Tablet Magazine: Lisa Anne Auerbach, who knits sweaters with quirky political and environmental messages, told us, “I was riding my bicycle everywhere, and I couldn’t put bumper stickers on it. ...

Best part of the 25-hour prayer-and-food-deprivation marathon we refer to as Yom Kippur? The end, when the shofar announces it’s time to stop mumbling apologies to God and shift our attention to fressing whitefish salad and bialys. Imagine, though, what a perpetual Yom Kippur would feel like, denying your appetites and begging God for mercy ...

• Following a shortage of certified circumcision practitioners, and in a time of controversy about the procedure, Dr. Karen Jaffe has become the first female mohel, or mohelet, in the state of Ohio. [Cleveland.com]
• Jews down under can now enjoy their own recently launched edition of Heeb magazine, and the “No shrimp on this barbie” ...

Certainly Heeb magazine intended to provoke when it included a photograph in their latest number, “The German Issue”, of comedienne Roseanne Barr dressed as Hitler and taking burned, man-shaped cookies out of the oven. (To see the image, click here.) Admirably, the New York City-based “satirical Jewish culture magazine” readily admitted to pushing the envelope ...

The first American Girl doll to come with an optional $68 “Sabbath Set” has been in the works for at least nine years, but it took a Heeb blogger to notice that Rebecca Rubin, the doll, shares a name with Rebecca Rubin, the suspected Earth Liberation Front arsonist wanted by the FBI. The dollmakers say ...

I was 16 and tripping on acid at a Grateful Dead show in Ohio, my brain thoroughly blown into another dimension, when a bearded face swirled in front of me, a man who wore his tzitzit under his tie-dye. His smile was gentle and his eyes intent. “Sister, if you ever go to New York ...