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Heeb Issue #6
The Whole Megillah
Citizen Franken
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Al Franken single-handedly smashed the stereotype of the humorless liberal. The former Saturday Night Live writer became one of the most important voices of the American
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Al Franken single-handedly smashed the stereotype of the humorless liberal. The former Saturday Night Live writer became one of the most important voices of the American
Chosen/Music
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That Billy Joel CD in your room that you “just happen to have,” “must have gotten for free” or is “probably my brother’s” will never inspire Thom Yorke,
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That Billy Joel CD in your room that you “just happen to have,” “must have gotten for free” or is “probably my brother’s” will never inspire Thom Yorke,
Features
Why Do We Feel So Guilty?
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Go ahead and don’t read this article. That’s fine. You spent your money on _Heeb_’s “Guilt Issue,” but why would you want to read the cover story? Read the
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Go ahead and don’t read this article. That’s fine. You spent your money on _Heeb_’s “Guilt Issue,” but why would you want to read the cover story? Read the
Features
Buschwhacked
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He can’t drop it. It’s a holy thing! That’s what Percy Freeman says he desperately tried to tell police on a warm August evening in 1999, outside his friend Gary
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He can’t drop it. It’s a holy thing! That’s what Percy Freeman says he desperately tried to tell police on a warm August evening in 1999, outside his friend Gary
Interview
Chosen Frozen
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On November 1st, 1994, Leonard Jenoff used a lead pipe to bludgeon Carol Neulander to death in her Cherry Hill, N.J. home. He believed, he says, that Carol Neulander was
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On November 1st, 1994, Leonard Jenoff used a lead pipe to bludgeon Carol Neulander to death in her Cherry Hill, N.J. home. He believed, he says, that Carol Neulander was
Feature Interview
Weapons of Mass Delusion
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In 1967, as nearly half a million American troops fought in Vietnam, MIT linguistics professor Noam Chomsky wrote an essay for the New York Review of Books that derided
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In 1967, as nearly half a million American troops fought in Vietnam, MIT linguistics professor Noam Chomsky wrote an essay for the New York Review of Books that derided
Features
Little Isaac’s Nozzle of Love
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That night, I lay in bed and thought about little Isaac’s nozzle. I couldn’t get past how ridiculous it looked. Like a tiny cowl-neck sweater. Then I started
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That night, I lay in bed and thought about little Isaac’s nozzle. I couldn’t get past how ridiculous it looked. Like a tiny cowl-neck sweater. Then I started
Features
Herring of Truth
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Rabbi Chaim Shnitzelbaum surveyed his domain. After years of operating out of a decrepit tenement in Williamsburg, his window staring out at a brick wall, he had finally
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Rabbi Chaim Shnitzelbaum surveyed his domain. After years of operating out of a decrepit tenement in Williamsburg, his window staring out at a brick wall, he had finally
In the Beginning
Guilty Gazes
Mirror, mirror, on the wall, who’s the guiltiest one of all? Nancy Schwartzman curates our gallery of guilt.
(Top photo: “My Mother as Whistler’s Mother” by Melissa Leibling-Goldberg)
“YHWH”
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(Top photo: “My Mother as Whistler’s Mother” by Melissa Leibling-Goldberg)
“YHWH”
