mag

Heeb Issue #10 : Photo Feature

Sweatshop Chic

Photo by Michael Creagh
(excerpted from original article)
Whether running a factory, running a sewing machine, or running a mouth off, there is nary a Jew who doesn’t have someone in his or her family tree who spent time on the sweatshop floor. Jews have toiled in sweatshops, organized against sweatshops and, now that most of those factories are shuttered, moved into housing converted from the sweatshops their ancestors ran from.






 

comments

submit a comment
logo_icons2_129 Facebook MySpace YouTube RSS Feed
trailofvinyl_300

this issue

mandel300x250_300
urban kvetch

Urban Kvetch

Summary (read more)

sheeb

Lisa Loeb

(excerpted from original article)
When I’m finally introduced to the folk singer, I make a sympathetic
(read more)

family album

Merchants of Menace

While Jews are, of course, well-known for being good with money, that does not mean that Jews with money are well-known for being good. In this history lesson with David Deutsch you’ll learn that, unfortunately, sometimes Yids do the darndest things. (read more)

features

The Gold Standard

He’s on America’s hottest television series and is increasingly becoming one of Hollywood’s biggest comic stars. Now he’s playing a father obsessed with giving his son the most spectacular bar mitzvah in history. Malina Saval sits down with Entourage’s Jeremy Piven. (read more)

My Son, the Debtor

It’s not like the condition of the Jewish Doctor is terminal, but if you’re pursuing the classic Jewish-American dream today, your prognosis isn’t quite as rosy as it once was. Anya Kamenetz on a generation of men and women who went to medical school and got less than what they bargained for. (read more)

photo feature

Sweatshop Chic

Quasi-slave labor may never be in style, but Angelo, Chantal and Samantha certainly are. Fashion inspired by a bygone era we’re glad is gone. (read more)

features

Lone Star

Heeb isn’t in the endorsement business, but let’s just say that given the recent history of their gubernatorial office, Texans could do a whole lot worse than this guy. D.J. Waletzky’s exclusive interview with Kinky Friedman. (read more)

new fiction

The Corvette

An English teacher in Krakow remembers two blissful hours roaring along the New Jersey Turnpike and the moment he decided what was truly worthwhile. New fiction by Gordon Haber. (read more)

chosen/film

Hostel Takeover

Eli Roth explains his penchant for fabricated blood and guts by recounting his sensationally (read more)

past issues

judaica_menorah_hanukkah_gifts
nolj_boxad_300