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Heeb Issue #8
The Whole Megillah

SoCalled Klezmer

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It sometimes takes audiences a song or two to figure out whether all of this is just one big post-modern joke—SoCalled makes you want to hunt down a Cossack and throw
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Features

Yarkulkes on Goyim

(excerpted from original article)
Is there a more endearing sight to behold than a goy struggling valiantly with the simple mechanics of a fashion accessory that comes so naturally to you and me,
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Features

Wrong Numbers

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In the days following the 9/11 attacks, conspiracy theories claimed that Jews had masterminded the attacks. Europe saw an increase in violence against Jews and Jewish
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Interview

Kvetching and Screaming

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I was a college anti-war activist at Ohio University in 1991 when I discovered Larry Kramer’s book, Reports from the holocaust: The Story of an AIDS Activist. During
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Photo Feature

The Heeb Hundred

Sit back and enjoy our first annual Heeb Hundred—people who, in our humble estimation, you need to know about. They are the usual suspects (rabbis, cantors, pornographers), but also some surprises
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Storytelling

H O W T O F I X T H I N G S

(excerpted from original story)
You’ll begin to wonder whether you still need therapy. If it’s worth plunking down the co-pay every week just to rattle on about how good things are—about how
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this issue

the whole megillah

SoCalled Klezmer

(excerpted from original article)
It sometimes takes audiences a song or two to figure out whether all of
(read more)

features

Yarkulkes on Goyim

There are few things more adorable than the sight of a yarmulke perched (ever so precariously) on the head of a gentile. Sarah Czeladnicki and Mike Sacks take you on trip down yarmulke lane. (read more)

Wrong Numbers

75 percent of the Jews in America who voted in the 2004 presidential election voted for John Kerry—so why is the Republican Jewish Coalition so happy? Sara Marcus on the battle for the heart and soul of a new generation of Jewish voters. (read more)

interview

Kvetching and Screaming

Since being diagnosed with HIV in 1988, Larry Kramer has largely been off the radar—that is, until now. Elliot Ratzman sits down with the man who’s raised complaining to an art form. (read more)

photo feature

The Heeb Hundred

One hundred portraits of people you need to know about.
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storytelling

H O W T O F I X T H I N G S

An aging toilet, an impenetrable coffee machine, an escalating co-payment and other dilemmas in this excerpt from Behind Everyman, by David Israel. (read more)

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