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Heeb Issue #15
In the Beginning
Urban Kvetch
Girls Who “Already Ate”
I order a big hunk of lasagna and you get a house salad because you “already ate.” Excuse me? Either you’re a bitch for putting me through six different e-mail exchanges
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I order a big hunk of lasagna and you get a house salad because you “already ate.” Excuse me? Either you’re a bitch for putting me through six different e-mail exchanges
In the Beginning
Jewdar
Rhymes With “Chagall”
Jewdar has long followed the career of martial artist, action star, PETAphile, energy drink entrepreneur, environmentalist, musician, reincarnation of a Tibetan lama and
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Jewdar has long followed the career of martial artist, action star, PETAphile, energy drink entrepreneur, environmentalist, musician, reincarnation of a Tibetan lama and
Honorary Heeb
Hairy Christmas
Zach Galifianakis’s new Brooklyn apartment is almost bare. There’s a couch and a table with a vase of sunflowers, some books and papers. Taped up on the adjacent wall are three maps of the Middle
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Features
The Accidental Shiksa
In the original HBO one-hour Curb Your Enthusiasm special, Larry David’s wife was supposed to be Jewish. “On the first day we were shooting the actual series,” says actress Cheryl Hines, “Larry
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Features
The Secret Life of Shabbos Goys
Sarah Black, 23, had never even heard the term “Shabbos goy.” Brought up as a secular Christian, she’d come to Brandeis for its music program, not because of any particular desire to study at a
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Feature Interview
Campus Crusader
While Christopher Hitchens and Richard Dawkins label religion the root of all evil and urge all reasonable minds to cast out belief altogether, fellow atheist Camille Paglia has defended religion’s
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Storytelling
The Bush, The Virgin, The Jew And The Cinderblock Bible
I’m a Jewish boy from the Upper West Side by way of Scarsdale. Completely deaf since age four, I relied on hearing aids and lip-reading to gain a fraction of spoken conversation. A few people were
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Photo Feature
Aryans Have More Fun!
Hair: Wesley O’Meara, The Wall Group
Makeup: Munemi, See Management
Models: Patricia, New York Models; Spencer Peterson, New York Models;
Thomas Wyatt, Ford
Photo Assistant: Melinda Melmoth
Fashion
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Makeup: Munemi, See Management
Models: Patricia, New York Models; Spencer Peterson, New York Models;
Thomas Wyatt, Ford
Photo Assistant: Melinda Melmoth
Fashion
Chosen
It’s A Mad Mad World
“Something is very wrong with me,” says Frank Einstein in the first issue of Mike Allred’s cult-classic comic book series, Madman, published sporadically since the early ’90s. Frank’s
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Chosen
Hijinx
Comic artist Evan Dorkin offers readers an unusual recipe.
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In the Beginning
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Marxist Theory
It’s no coincidence that Samm Levine’s character on the fabulous but now defunct television series Freaks and Geeks was obsessed with the comedic masterwork of the Marx Brothers. Growing up a severe
Sheeb
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Femme Retail
On the television series Mad Men, Rachel Menken is a second-generation Manhattan merchant who gives her father’s department store an overhaul. In season one of the Eisenhower-era drama, which aired on
