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Heeb Issue #5

Urban Kvetch

Public Nail Clipping
There can’t be anything more emblematic of the erosion of civic virtue in this nation than the disturbing development of public nail clipping. It’s so acceptable to do your nails
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Chosen/Music

One Love

(excerpted from original article)
Matisyahu is a 24-year-old reggae phenom out of Crown Heights. When I meet him coming back from a Hanukkah get-together with his family, it’s a quarter to midnight in
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Features

Where Have You Gone, Sandy Koufax

(excerpted from original article)
Four decades after Los Angeles Dodger Sandy Koufax refused to pitch on Yom Kippur during the World Series and ignited Jewish pride, the Jewish-athlete-obsession business
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Interview

Elder of Zion

(excerpted from original article)
Cornel West is nearly as at home in the New York Jewish intellectual scene as he is in the black community. He has spoken in countless synagogues, Hillels and JCCs, is
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Interview

Crimes of Passion

Direction by Nancy Schwartzman
Photography by Tai Power Seeff
Production Design by Amanda Ford


(excerpted from original article)
Nearly two thousand years ago, a benevolent preacher was executed in
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urban kvetch

Urban Kvetch

Public Nail Clipping
There can’t be anything more emblematic of the erosion of civic virtue in this
(read more)

chosen/music

One Love

D. J. Waletzky meets dancehall moshiach Matisyahu. (read more)

features

Where Have You Gone, Sandy Koufax

Allen Salkin explores a subculture obsessed with dragging big-time athletes out of the Jewish closet. (read more)

interview

Elder of Zion

Cornel West sits down with Elliot Ratzman to discuss ethics, critics and, of course, The Matrix. (read more)

Crimes of Passion

Are you mad, Max? Or just following in your father’s footsteps? Tai Power Seeff photographs _Heeb_’s version of the Passion Play. (read more)

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