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The Bible’s Guide to Tricking Your Parents
This post is part of a year-long experiment wherein, week-by-week, we write the Bible better than it was in the original. Genesis 25:19- 28:9 Isaac had two sons, Jacob and Esau. Esau was the oldest,...
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A Modest Proposal for the “Vanishing American Jew”
This story was written by Sarah Goldstein and originally appeared in Heeb’s “Love Issue” (February, 2007). Right now, in the boardrooms of Jewish philanthropic organizations throughout the U.S.,...
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Why Marrying for Love is Not All It’s Cracked Up to Be
This post is part of a year-long experiment wherein, week-by-week, we write the Bible better than it was in the original. Genesis 28:10-32:3 Jacob goes off journeying and God shows up. God: I’ll...
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The World’s First Known Case of Sciatica
This post is part of a year-long experiment wherein, week-by-week, we write the Bible better than it was in the original. Genesis 32:4- 36:43 Esau was a little ticked off at his brother Jacob, what...
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I Was Fifteen When I Met Allen Ginsberg
The following story was written by Matthew Power and published in Heeb’s premiere issue in 2002. The first time I went to New York, I took my girlfriend to visit Allen Ginsberg in his Lower East...
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You Can’t Trust a Big Veil and a Smile
This post is part of a year-long experiment wherein, week-by-week, we write the Bible better than it was in the original. Genesis 37:1-40:23 Judah’s son married a local girl named Tamar....
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And You Think Your Family Doesn’t Get You
This post is part of a year-long experiment wherein, week-by-week, we write the Bible better than it was in the original. Genesis 41:1 – 44:17 Joseph was a really sexy, gifted, smart, awesome,...
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Revenge is Best Served to Siblings
This post is part of a year-long experiment wherein, week-by-week, we write the Bible better than it was in the original. Genesis 44:18 – 47:27 During a terrible famine, Joseph’s brothers traveled to...
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The Abu Dhabi Mitzvah–the Heeb Review
Back when Jewdar was but a lad, we developed a bit of a man-crush on Sir Richard Burton. To clarify, it was the Victorian explorer, not the Elizabethan husband. We had read of him first in Philip...
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How to Get Your Employees to Buy In
This post is part of a year-long experiment wherein, week-by-week, we write the Bible better than it was in the original. Exodus 1:1 – 6:1 The Hebrews were slaves in Egypt. Pharaoh ordered all Hebrew...
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An Interview With the Family Tree-Obsessed, A.J. Jacobs
Three years ago, A.J. Jacobs received a very strange email from a dairy farmer living on an Israeli kibbutz. The man said that Jacobs didn’t know him, but they were eighth cousins. “I thought he was...
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Please free the slaves now, thanks
This post is part of a year-long experiment wherein, week-by-week, we write the Bible better than it was in the original. God makes Moses talk to the Hebrews. Moses: Hey. Hey Hebrews. Hebrew: What?...
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Free will is overrated
This post is part of a year-long experiment wherein, week-by-week, we write the Bible better than it was in the original. God kept unleashing plagues on Pharaoh. Pharaoh didn’t really, you know, care....
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Wandering into a desert isn’t as glamorous as it’s cracked up to be
The Hebrews leave Egypt and come to the edge of the Red Sea. Moses: Hey God? You’re not gonna do that thing again, where you change Pharaoh’s mind and make him come after us, right? Because that would...
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Pay no attention to the god behind the mountain
After having the Jews go on a fun walk through the desert for a while, God brought them to Mount Sinai. Lighting flashes and smoke rises from the mountain. God: I am the mighty and powerful God! Obey...
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“Support the Girls” is Not Really About the Raunch
For a decade and a half, Andrew Bujalski has been making some of the most exciting American independent films one can find, yet all of them seem to elude classification. What is a Bujalski film? They...
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Meet The Badass Behind “Badass Bitches of History”
Meet Jenny Zigrino, a rising comedian rumored to possess “the sweetness of the Midwest and the iron balls of the East Coast.” Zigrino has appeared in films like “Fifty Shades of Black” and “Bad Santa...
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Comics the Chosen Should Choose
This is a post Jewdar should have put up a few months ago when it was time to get our afikomen present (take that, children!), but as it’s our birthday today, let’s hope the missus is reading this....
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Lyin’ of Judah–Review of Nur Masalha’s Palestine A Four Thousand Year History
On the Zionist political spectrum, Jewdar is a pretty solid two-stater who believes that when it comes to the sorry state of Israeli-Palestinian relations, there’s plenty enough blame to go around....
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Comic Con-glomerate–Comic Con, Stan Lee, and the Aquaman and Titans Review
Alright, so we’ll admit, Jewdar has been super lazy. But that’s one of the great things about a MOT; we get two chances to make New Year’s Resolutions. Our goal for right now? Catch up on comic news....
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