KAREN GALATZ, THE JEWISH NEWS OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
• Published July 15, 2021
Growing up, I watched Betty Boop and Mighty Mouse cartoons every Saturday morning. Then I played with my Barbie dolls all afternoon. And for a break, I read and reread my ever-growing stack of Superman comic books. Weekday afternoons, I watched Shari...
Amanda Silberling, Hey Alma
• Published July 14, 2021
While everyone else is talking about the reboot, I'm here to declare that Wallace Shawn's portrayal of this iconic Jewish stepdad has been long overlooked.
Ed Wynn had one of those faces, one of those voices that made it impossible for people not to laugh at his actions and antics.
Wynn's comedic career stretched for 60 years and he was known as "The Perfect Fool."
Born Isaiah Edwin Leopold on November...
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...
Benjamin Ivry, The Forward
• Published July 13, 2021
This article originally appeared at forward.com. Reposted with permission.
This year marks the 100th anniversary of the first appearance in the same film, “The Lucky Dog” (1921) by Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, the comedy duo whose work featured...
Finally, a “sponge-worthy” Lego set!
Here at Kveller, we absolutely LOVE Lego. And, of course, we love “Seinfeld.” So, imagine our extreme delight when we learned that, in honor of the sitcom’s 32nd anniversary of its first episode (July...
DAN BUFFA, SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH LIGHT
• Published July 9, 2021
Some television shows manage to climb over the rigorous test of time. "Red Oaks" is one of those shows, a slipped-under-the-cracks-of-our-attention Amazon Prime show that debuted back in 2014 and ran for three seasons.
True story. I only ran across...
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...
Benny Kubelsky who was born in Waukegan, Ill., the son of Jewish immigrants from Russia who owned a saloon, would grow up to became of the world's greates comedians, Jack Benny.
A show business institution, Mr. Benny carved out a reputation in vaudville,...
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...
