(New York Jewish Week via JTA) — “Saturday Night Live” is famously “Live from New York,” and in the latest episode the show doubled down on the promise.
In a skit on Saturday’s episode, guest host John Mulaney led the cast in a parody of...
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Dan Buffa, Special For The Jewish Light
• Published February 15, 2022
In the new trailer for her upcoming Hulu comedy series, Jewish superstar Amy Schumer politely tells a doctor that she has had 30,000 drinks, doesn't chew her food properly, and is barreling towards 40. While the doctor simply wanted to know if there were...
According to the YIVO, the Institute of Jewish Research, the term “Yiddish” is derived from the German word for “Jewish.” The most accepted (but not the only) theory of the origin of Yiddish is that it began to take shape by the 10th century...
It’s truly amazing how long it takes till you really understand your grandfather or at least a part of him, you took for granted.
Since joining the Jewish Light, I’ve reflected on my own Jewish experience growing up, and part of that was the Yiddish,...
BARBARA BALLINGER AND MARGARET CRANE
• Published February 1, 2022
From the first frequent query of “How are you?” to the more intimate, “Do you have good chemistry, hint, hint, are you sleeping together?” we’ve found in our single status after 50, nothing seems off-limits. Whether it’s illness—“Was he...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published January 26, 2022
Jewish humor can be difficult to define. As William Novak and Moshe Waldoks write in "The Big Book of Jewish Humor," it is easier to describe Jewish humor in terms of what it is not, than what it is.
It is not, for example, escapist. It is not slapstick....
BARBARA BALLINGER AND MARGARET CRANE
• Published January 25, 2022
What have we learned from our offspring? Plenty.
As children growing up in the 1950s and ‘60s, our primary role was to be seen and not heard. Advice was doled out like morning vitamins with such directives as “Sit up straight,” “Chew with your...
MARK D. ZIMMERMAN, Special For The Jewish Light
• Published January 24, 2022
It was just announced that Jon Stewart will be the recipient of the 2022 Mark Twain Prize for American Humor.
The award program will take place at the Kennedy Center on April 24, and will later be broadcast on television. Stewart...
