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...
The just-completed Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games included, for the first time, an official memorial to the 11 Israeli athletes murdered at the 1972 Munich Olympics.
Israel had her most successful Olympics participation with 90 athletes competing, a record...
TEAM JONJ, JEW OR NOT JEW
• Published August 8, 2021
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...
Each week The St. Louis Jewish Light celebrates a Jewish comedian. Today, we're remembering Jackie Mason, who died last month at 93.
His comedy, delivered in a distinctive cadence inflected with the Yiddish of his childhood on the Lower East Side of...
Because we all need to laugh more, The St. Louis Jewish Light brings you The Jewish Joke Of The Week. If you have a joke you would like to share, please email [email protected].
YiddishWit.com is a collection of Yiddish proverbs and sayings and expressions that are published in Yiddish and that lend themselves to illustration. The illustrations are created by Johanna Kovitz, and are adaptations and recombinations of existing...
Alan Zeitlin, Jewish News Syndicate
• Published August 2, 2021
“Jackie Mason was in a league of his own,” said the 50-year-old comedian. “I don’t care how decent some other guys are today, there will never be anyone like him.”
YiddishWit.com is a collection of Yiddish proverbs and sayings and expressions that are published in Yiddish and that lend themselves to illustration. The illustrations are created by Johanna Kovitz, and are adaptations and recombinations of existing...
Victor Borge, born Børge Rosenbaum, was a Jewish Danish humorist and musician born in Copenhagen. He learned piano at the age of three, and it was soon regarded as a prodigy. By the age of 8, was giving full piano recitals. In 1918 he was awarded a full...
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...
YiddishWit.com is a collection of Yiddish proverbs and sayings and expressions that are published in Yiddish and that lend themselves to illustration. The illustrations are created by Johanna Kovitz, and are adaptations and recombinations of existing...
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...
