The show has a “deep sense of certain kinds of Jewish language and knowledge that is sometimes absent in some treatments of U ...

So maybe the last Jewish joke isn’t the last after all. Maybe it’s just the latest retelling of an old story — ours — one that keeps finding ways to make us laugh when the world conspires to make ...

Is the Jewish joke on the verge of becoming extinct? The Last Jewish Joke, written by the veteran Parisian sociologist Michel ...

Social communication favors those who get to ask the questions. They can make others feel inadequate or insensitive. Defense ...

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“Comedians like George Jessel and Eddie Cantor are only vaudeville types,” said Irving Davidson, Brooklyn, in his talk on “Jewish Humor” at the Shaarhe Torah Temple. “Their presentation is Judaic but ...

Israeli comic Matan Peretz is back on the performance circuit after taking a break to fight in the Gaza War -- as well as figure out how to be funny in a time of historic horror.

The holiday of Hanukkah, the festival of lights, is around the corner. Jewish jokes abound for holidays like Passover, where we scrub our houses from top to bottom, eliciting jokes about bubbies who ...

On Sept. 14, Rabbi Igael Gurin-Malous, the senior rabbi at Beit T’Shuvah in Los Angeles, who goes by Rabbi Iggy, led a ...

One reason my wife and I never learned Yiddish was that our families didn’t want us to. Yiddish was only spoken when they ...

The announcement last week that Katerina McCrimmon would star as Fanny Brice in the national tour of “Funny Girl,” the Broadway musical about a trailblazing Jewish comedian, has ignited criticism from ...