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Heeb Issue #10Urban Kvetch
Fleas
My cats Mookie and Cleo had fleas this week. I really felt for the cats, because they had bugs biting them and shit, but I felt a lot worse for myself. Turns out a single flea can lay about 30,000
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My cats Mookie and Cleo had fleas this week. I really felt for the cats, because they had bugs biting them and shit, but I felt a lot worse for myself. Turns out a single flea can lay about 30,000
Sheeb
Lisa Loeb
(excerpted from original article)
When I’m finally introduced to the folk singer, I make a sympathetic remark about how hard it seems to be back in the saddle again. Loeb looks at me sharply behind her
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When I’m finally introduced to the folk singer, I make a sympathetic remark about how hard it seems to be back in the saddle again. Loeb looks at me sharply behind her
Family Album
Merchants of Menace
(excerpted from original article)
There are many explanations for the storied cupidity of the Jewish people. Some argue that laws in Christian Europe forced us to work disproportionately in fields of
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There are many explanations for the storied cupidity of the Jewish people. Some argue that laws in Christian Europe forced us to work disproportionately in fields of
Features
The Gold Standard
(excerpted from original article)
But perhaps focusing on the caddish qualities of the Piven persona is to miss the boat, for what distinguishes his protagonists are the certain moments when they emerge,
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But perhaps focusing on the caddish qualities of the Piven persona is to miss the boat, for what distinguishes his protagonists are the certain moments when they emerge,
Features
My Son, the Debtor
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When David Gould, 33, was growing up in St. Louis, his career fate seemed practically sealed. “I had known many older, satisfied physicians growing up,” both
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When David Gould, 33, was growing up in St. Louis, his career fate seemed practically sealed. “I had known many older, satisfied physicians growing up,” both
Photo Feature
Sweatshop Chic
(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
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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
Features
Lone Star
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Kinky Friedman claims that he started his country-western band, Kinky Friedman and the Texas Jewboys, “in the jungles of Borneo” while in the Peace Corps in 1968.
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Kinky Friedman claims that he started his country-western band, Kinky Friedman and the Texas Jewboys, “in the jungles of Borneo” while in the Peace Corps in 1968.
New Fiction
The Corvette
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The Corvette: My father’s car was a ’65 Corvette. He had had it for fifteen years, and he loved it. He did not love his car more than his family; the car was not a
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The Corvette: My father’s car was a ’65 Corvette. He had had it for fifteen years, and he loved it. He did not love his car more than his family; the car was not a
Chosen/Film
Hostel Takeover
Eli Roth explains his penchant for fabricated blood and guts by recounting his sensationally unconventional bar mitzvah party in which a magician pretended to saw the young Roth in half—a grotesque
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