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Last year, a homeless man named "Metal Mike" introduced director Brett Ratner to Heeb publisher Joshua Neuman in Manhattan. Ratner, who was tossed out of Hebrew school in seventh grade for negiya (touching the opposite sex), jumped at the opportunity when Neuman invited him to guest edit the issue. Thus "The Notorious Issue" was born. On sale nationwide July 15, the summer edition of Heeb is full of gangsters and glam, soul and snark, playboys and pin-up girls.

The Notorious Issue features the world’s first Jewish swimsuit calendar for the issue shot by famed fashion photographer Gilles Bensimon with Israeli supermodel Bar Refaeli gracing the cover.

Other highlights include the 21^st Century’s most infamous Jewish playboys, Richard Meier discussing the "Meier on Rothschild" in Tel Aviv and interviews with Yael Naim, Anton Yelchin, Dave Berman and Robert Evans. New York Times writer Allen Salkin investigates a murder that grabbed the attention of a California town and the larger gay community, and Steve Bloom recalls the bumpy beginning to his friendship with James Brown.