Jackie Hajdenberg, JTA
• Published November 29, 2022
(JTA) — Two weeks after a Trump-supporting heckler threw a beer can at Ariel Elias at a club in New Jersey over her politics, the Jewish comedian’s fortunes took a turn for the better. A video of the incident went viral and she made her network television...
(JTA) – Indy’s going to sock it to the Third Reich once more.
The fifth movie in the Indiana Jones series will plop Harrison Ford’s heroic archaeologist into “a castle swarming with Nazis” in the year 1944, according to new plot details revealed...
(JNS) Robert Clary, a Holocaust survivor best known as the French actor who starred in the CBS-TV series “Hogan’s Heroes,” died at his home in Los Angeles on Nov. 15 at age 96.
Family members did not provide a cause of death.
Cleary, who played...
LONDON (JTA) — David Baddiel, a comedian-turned-activist against antisemitism who calls himself “one of the U.K.’s very few famous Jews,” was holding court in the basement of one of Britain’s best-known TV studios.
As a reporter headed...
(New York Jewish Week) — “You never know how people are going to respond,” says Jewish comedian Ari Shaffir, referring to his new standup special, “Jew,” which has more than 3 million views (and counting) on YouTube.
The self-released,...
BY JACKIE HAJDENBERG, JTA
• Published November 17, 2022
(JTA) — Prominent Jewish comedians have begun to weigh in on fellow comic Dave Chappelle’s “Saturday Night Live” monologue in which he joked about Jews running Hollywood.
The verdict from his peers has been mixed after Chappelle delivered a...
By PJ Grisar, The Forward
• Published November 16, 2022
Tuesday on “The Late Show,” Jon Stewart sat down with his old friend Stephen Colbert to talk Kyrie Irving, Kanye West and Dave Chappelle’s “SNL” monologue. In jest, he referred to himself as our “spokesjew.” His read of the situation has...
(JTA) — Last week saw Dave Chappelle deliver a brilliant monologue on “Saturday Night Live” addressing the antisemitism controversies surrounding Kanye West and Kyrie Irving.
Unfortunately, “brilliant” doesn’t inherently mean “moral”...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published November 14, 2022
Karen Silverstein, who was born and raised in St. Louis and first came to public attention with the cult-classic culinary documentary "Gefilte Fish," passed away peacefully after a courageous battle with ovarian cancer on Nov. 11, 2022, in the San Francisco...
Shuly Rubin Schwartz, JTA
• Published November 14, 2022
(JTA) — Like so many other American Jews from the New York area, I have been eagerly awaiting “I’ll Have What She’s Having,” the new exhibit on the American Jewish deli now on view at the New-York Historical Society. After all, the deli was...
By PJ Grisar, The Forward
• Published November 14, 2022
In 1952, a 5-year-old Sammy Fabelman (or was it Steven Spielberg) saw a train crash.
His parents both assured him it wasn’t real. His father, an engineer, explained it by describing the mechanics of a film projector. His mother, a free spirit and would-be...
(JTA) — Two years ago, a poll on Twitter tried to settle once and for all how to refer to the corner of the social media platform where Jews conversed. “Jwitter” got two thirds of the 525 votes, with the rest falling to “Jtwitter.”
Whatever...
