Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

To: EdnaMode

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heeb

The magazine was founded by Jennifer Bleyer, a graduate of Columbia University,[2][3] and backed financially by Steven Spielberg and Charles Bronfman. Bleyer, who now writes for The New York Times, ended her association with the magazine in 2003.[4] Taking over for her as editor and publisher was Harvard Divinity School graduate Joshua Neuman. Neuman’s goal was to spread the idea of Heeb as a “lifestyle magazine”, incorporating events like a traveling Heeb Storytelling show in order to reach an underserved Jewish progressive market around the country. The magazine’s subtitle was “The New Jew Review”.

...

It has become known for its satire and sardonic approach to reaching Jewish readers of all streams. In a late 2006 edition, a live pig was photographed running across a traditional Sabbath dinner table. Heeb’s satirist, David Deutsch, who used his own table to stage the photos asked his rabbi if it were kosher to use a live pig on his table for this purpose, as pig meat is considered unkosher. His rabbi said it wasn’t a problem, but recommended that he wash the table afterwards.

The magazine is decidedly anti-establishment and left-wing.

... It frequently criticizes mainstream American Jewish culture, most famously in an article entitled “Joe Lieberman is a Dickhead.” The author of the piece took Lieberman to task for favoring an increase in military spending. Other writers who have contributed to Heeb include Allen Salkin, who wrote “Where Have You Gone Sandy Koufax?”, an article about Jews obsessed with Jews in sports, and “Why are We So Guilty?”....

...In March 2004, in its fifth issue, Heeb featured the photo spread entitled Crimes of Passion that spoofed Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ. The spread included a half naked Virgin Mary (with pierced nipples) and a Jesus with his genitals wrapped in a tallit...

In 2009, Heeb produced its controversial Germany Issue in which Roseanne Barr posed as Adolf Hitler in drag holding a tray of “burned Jew cookies.” The photo invoked the ire of Bill O’Reilly on Fox’s The O’Reilly Factor...

Heeb ceased publishing the print edition of its magazine in 2010, but continues to publish a daily weblog.


26 posted on 06/03/2018 8:35:50 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Ads for Chappaquiddick warn of scenes of tobacco use. What about the hazards of drunk driving?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]


To: a fool in paradise

The leftist just can’t seem to take a joke. Unless it is a hate mongering against freedom.


28 posted on 06/03/2018 8:55:29 PM PDT by Trumpet 1 (US Constitution is my guide.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 26 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson