(JTA) — How did aliens find their way into a nice Jewish dramedy?
It’s hard to say for sure how extraterrestrials factor into “The Magnificent Meyersons,” a new independent film written and directed by Evan Oppenheimer. Even for those who watch...
(JTA) — Alan Dershowitz’s Martha’s Vineyard vacations are still prettay, prettay uncomfortable.
Larry David “screamed” at the prominent legal commentator at a popular convenience store on the island, the New York Post reported...
Andrew Geoffrey Kaufman was born in New York and grew up in suburban Long Island.
He graduated in 1971 from the now-defunct Grahm Junior College in Boston, where he studied television. Kaufman lived in a hazy borderland between comedy and performance...
From Groucho Marx to the Borscht Belt to Sarah Silverman, many of America’s best-known comedians have been Jewish. And so important is humor to Jewish culture that a landmark study on American Jewish identity in 2013 found that 42 percent of American...
This article originally appeared at forward.com. Reposted with permission.
When the 2021-22 National Hockey League season opens this October, the Seattle Kraken will be the first professional Emerald City team since the Totems folded in 1975.
But,...
“I hope fans of comedy will get a kick out of the stories behind my work, and really enjoy taking this remarkable ride with me.”—Mel Brooks
I'm a fan, and I can't wait to take this ride with you Mel.
I believe the reason it took Brooks 95-years...
DAN BUFFA, SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH LIGHT
• Published August 12, 2021
If Marc Maron is in the movie, the experience can't be all bad. But with this entertainer, pretty much anywhere he shows up, good times will follow. He's versatile like good pizza dough; no matter how you stretch it or bake it, the taste is there.
That...
(JTA) — Los Angeles’ Greenblatt’s Deli and Fine Wine Shop shuttered abruptly on Wednesday, ending nearly a century-long run for a fixture of Jewish food on Sunset Boulevard.
Opened in 1926 and run by a single family since the 1940s, Greenblatt’s...
From Groucho Marx and the Borscht Belt to Sarah Silverman, many of America’s best-known comedians have been Jewish. And so important is humor to Jewish culture that a landmark study on American Jewish identity in 2013 found that 42 percent of American...
BERLIN (JTA) — “Jude, Jude, Jude einfach nur ein Wort.”
The phrase — “Jew, Jew, Jew is just a word” — comes near the start of the opening rap theme song to the German talk show “Freitagnacht Jews” (“Friday Night Jews”), a state-sponsored...
It’s a right of Jewish passage to wonder who out there in the world is Jewish too, especially famous people like actors, singers, athletes, and even social media stars and YouTubers. It’s just something we do.
So, to better answer the question...
