The installation in Munich is an ill-conceived attempt to honor the Jewish humor of millions of Yiddish speakers murdered by ...

Here's a sampling of comics and other events planned for the first week of the Jewish Humor Festival at the Sabes Jewish Community Center, 4330 S. Cedar Lake Road, Minneapolis. For more information on ...

In the weeks following the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas on Israel, Elon Gold couldn’t feel funny. How could the Jewish comedian, who normally performs almost every other night, crack jokes as he was still ...

On April 10, DGA members took a hilarious look at the world of comedy and Jewish humor in film from the past as the Jewish Committee (JC) hosted its inaugural event, Laughing Out Loud! Jewish Humor ...

In these times of economic stress, the suffering of the Jew is as keen as that of any other representative class of population. Yet in searching through the storehouse of his rich past, he may still ...

This perceptive debut from Caplan, a Judaic studies professor at the University of Cincinnati, examines how “Jewish satire and American Judaism have interacted over the last half century.” Unpacking ...

“We honeymooned at Kutsher’s in late October 1968,” Barbara Gelman recalled in an oral history for the Borscht Belt Museum. “When we ordered dinner, the waitress enumerated all the desserts, and my ...

The audience is Jewish, the comedian an Arab. This is something of a rarity in the divided city of Jerusalem. A flutter of apprehension runs through the packed basement that is the Syndrome Club as ...

For a cultural critic, a sense of humor is integral to his Jewish identity. But these dark times raise existential questions about comedy and its uses. Credit...Chloe Cushman Supported by By Jason ...

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