(JTA) — Jackie Mason, who died Saturday at 93, didn’t always set out to be a comedian. In fact, it wasn’t until he was 30 that he left behind the Orthodox rabbinate for irreverent open-mic nights. His ...

What do Sarah the matriarch, Rabbi Akiva from the Talmud and Saturday Night Live's Adam Sandler have in common? They all encourage us to laugh. The CJLL welcomes scholar-in-residence Josh Lambert for ...

“We’re creating a new tradition within our comedy community,” says the co-creator of “Smokin’ Hot Jews.” (New York Jewish Week via JTA) — As “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” tries to make abundantly clear, ...

(JTA) — Two weeks after a Trump-supporting heckler threw a beer can at Ariel Elias at a club in New Jersey over her politics, the Jewish comedian’s fortunes took a turn for the better. A video of the ...

A new book explores the evolution of humor from the post-World War II era to the rise of the millennials. (JTA) — In the 2020 comedy “Shiva Baby,” a 20-something young woman shows up at a house of ...

(New York Jewish Week via JTA) — As “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” tries to make abundantly clear, stand-up comedy is a New York Jewish thing. The show is set in an era when Jewish comics were defining ...

PARK CITY, Utah, Jan. 28 (UPI) --Between the Temples, which screened online at the Sundance Film Festival, follows Cha Cha Real Smooth, You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah and Keeping Up with the ...

Jackie Mason, who died Saturday at 93, didn’t always set out to be a comedian. In fact, it wasn’t until he was 30 that he left behind the Orthodox rabbinate for irreverent open-mic nights. His comedy, ...

A shiva, the ritual gathering that follows a Jewish funeral, is potentially as good a cinematic device for uniting disparate — and dysfunctional — friends and family as the wedding, birthday, ...

Savannah has become home to the Jewish Cultural Arts Festival for the second year in a row. For the past 20 years, the Savannah Jewish Federation (SJF) has hosted a film festival dealing with the ...

A Jewish magazine’s fall issue hit a sour note — or rather, a festive one — when one musically-inclined reader discovered the sheet music printed at the top of an article was none other than “We Wish ...