urban kvetch
Urban Kvetch
Bad Nuts
Once in a while, even when munchin’ on, say, a bag of high-end Bazzini cashews, you’ll come
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the whole megillah
Six For Five
When Montreal-based artist Pat Hamou came across an old lineup photo of Murder Inc. hitman Abe “Kid
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If You Build It
“I first went to Israel in 1959 and I have very fond memories of it,” Richard Meier tells me from his
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sheeb
Hebrew Goes Platinum
Yael Naim does in fact have a MacBook Air Notebook, and yes, it was free. Apple gave it to her because she
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the whole megillah
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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”). (read more)
features
My Journey With Roman
Brett Ratner and Roman Polanski take an improbable trip to Auschwitz in this Heeb exclusive. (read more)
Trouble at the Rosenkrantz Ranch
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. (read more)
storytelling
Call Me James
The first time rock journalist Steve Bloom sat down with James Brown, the Godfather of Soul reamed his ass. That was before Brown found out that Bloom was a Jew. (read more)
photo feature
The Ladies of ’69
Gilles Bensimon captures six of the most beautiful Jewish women in the world in this special pull-out calendar for the year 5769. (read more)
chosen
The Big Penis Book
The penises in The Big Penis Book may be of all colors and creeds, attached to owners of varying (read more)
Panter’s Playhouse
What do you get when you toss Godzilla, Popeye, Dante, Zappa, Picasso, Kirby, Sun Ra and Philip K. Dick
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chosen/music
Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea
There is no way David Berman could have known the path he would set himself on in merely naming his band.
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comments
submit a comment07.15.08 at 12:07 pm
I just love these photos and thank you so much for publishing them. As I have come to a place of peace with my heritage, it is so welcome to be able to see these people my father and uncles knew and talked about in hushed tones all those many, many years ago. Shalom!