Tom Maayan, a sophomore student at Seton Hall University in New Jersey, and upcoming star basketball player, will return to Israel before his season ends in order to serve in the IDF. Earlier this...
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Rutgers Univ Jewish Studies: Springsteen Is A God
At Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, home-state of singer-songwriter Bruce Springsteen, a Byrne Freshman Seminar course will be offered in 2014 that studies the theology of Springsteen...
World Amazed That A Rabbi Is Honest?
What gives? Every media outlet is just dumbfounded and amazed that a rabbi in Connecticut who purchased a desk online and found money in it, was honest, and he returned the cash discreetly (well as...
Two Haredi “Rising Stars”
Rising Star, the licensed “Idol” TV singing contest on Israel Channel 2, has made stars of young men and women, guest workers, settlers, Arab-Israelis, Jewish Israelis, and now two...
Thanksgivukah or Thanksgivukkah? Overplayed?
Heeb is already post-Thanksgivukah and senses it is overplayed. Other media are using the coincidental dates to generate interest and revenue. And most readers are not paying attention. But for those...
Pitying the Picture Editor
Pretend you are the picture editor. Which pic of U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Israel’s P.M. Binyamin Netanyahu do you select? The Wall Street Journal led its front page with the dour...
Huge Trove of Nazi Looted Art Revealed
Nearly two years ago, German Customs officers raided the Munich, Schwabing district apartment of 79 year old Cornelius Gurlitt, the son of a Nazi-confiscated Art collector and found over 1,401...
My Kosher Chicken is Cleaner, Right?
Many American thirteen year old Jewish boys and girls visit Israel with their families and return home with an energized sense of Jewish and Zionist identities. Jack Millman, a student at the...