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‘Heeb’ goes Hollywood

For Josh Neuman, publisher of Heeb magazine, there are two cities in America: New York and Los Angeles-and \”all that s— in the middle,\” which he\’s just not interested in.\n\nOne glance at the eclectic scene populating Heeb\’s Hollywood Issue launch party last week at the bourgeois/hippie clothing store, Von Dutch, and it\’s easy to see why: Where else in the country would a \”Jewish\” party comprise everyone from spiky-haired hipsters to artsy bohemians to religious men in yarmulkes crushing together in a parking lot?

Enter Elijah, designated drinker

Passover is a holiday near and dear to Marc Jaffe\’s heart. So when the \”Seinfeld\” and \”Mad About You\” writer went to a friend\’s house for a seder last year, he was let down when an Elijah\’s entrance gag bombed.

\”They shook the table. I thought, \’You gotta be kidding me,\’\” he said. \”You gotta have better effects than that.\”

Cartoonist captures comics

Friedman\’s new book, \”More Old Jewish Comedians\” (Fantagraphics Books, $16.99), a sequel to his 2006 \”Old Jewish Comedians,\” continues his humorous, highly detailed caricatures of the Jewish comedians who once dominated the Catskills circuit.

Mom and daughter climb ev’ry mountain

For Cheryl and Nikki Bart, ain\’t no mountain high enough. Seven years after their first adventure in Nepal, the Barts are heading back to Katmandu this week in an attempt to become the first mother-daughter team to conquer Everest.

Bruin coach is ready for March Madness

Growing up, Scott Garson\’s Calabasas family loved two things: Judaism and basketball. His mother, Corinne, was president of the Woodland Hills Reform congregation Kol Tikvah, while his father, Lee, is a UCLA alum who coaches youth basketball. So it\’s no surprise that Garson is a practicing Jew, as well as assistant coach for the UCLA men\’s basketball team.

Final Frontier calls to Nimoy

In 2002, Leonard Nimoy, now 76, said he was retiring from acting to focus on photography. But in May 2009, he\’ll return to the silver screen as the pointy-eared pop culture icon who has been his alter ego since \”Star Trek\” debuted on television in 1966.

Shmuley Update 2008: Now he’s fixing the ‘Broken Male’

The American male is broken and the only way to fix him is to redefine what makes him a success, Rabbi Shmuley Boteach says, adding that the American male is made to feel like a failure and always in competition with those around him.

Scrolls for sale

The calligraphy on the coffee-colored parchment is crisp and clear, with delicately ascending crowns adorning the Hebrew letters. But rather than being unfurled on a bima and read by a proud bar mitzvah boy, this water-stained fragment of a Torah scroll from Turkey — thought to be about 300 years old — is spread out on a drafting table in the backyard studio of Sam and Debbie Gliksman. The Gliksmans have recently launched Spiritual Artifacts, a business that preserves, frames and sells fragments from decommissioned Torah scrolls.

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