It might raise an eyebrow or two that Josh Neuman, former editor and publisher of Heeb magazine — the irreverent, youth-oriented Jewish magazine that shut down its print operations in 2010 — is now in charge of editorial content at GOOD, a multiplatform media outlet dedicated to helping “people who give a damn” do well by doing good.
If you count yourself among the Heebsters and Sheebsters, you\’re proud to be a Jew and have no reservations when it comes to flaunting your J-bling. If this is all new to you, welcome to the world of hipster Jews.
Four modern-day gladiators do battle for the gold (a lifetime supply of Gold\’s mustard) in the Heeb Olympics
100 or so young Jews gathered to celebrate the third issue of Guilt and Pleasure, a literary quarterly out of New York whose first issue featured a cover photograph of a border collie smoking a cigarette.
\”Heeb is a special subset of the genus Jew,\” explained Joshua Neuman, 31, the new editor-in-chief and only paid staffer of Heeb magazine, a hipper-than-thou take on modern Jewish identity. With its gritty irony, the nearly 2-year-old magazine taps into a young Jewish generation that thirsts for Judaism but rejects its standard trappings.
Hi. My name is Carin and I have a Jewfro.
Heeb hair. A Moses mop. A latke lid. I\’m down with my fun girl curls, but I can\’t say the same for the men I meet. My big hair is the Mason-Dixon Line of my L.A. dating life. Some men love the untamed, wild, bed-head look of my natural waves. But many men prefer I play it straight.
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