The event — which combines a film screening with live comedy, music and nosh— offers audiences a chance to experience the pair’s distinctive blend of storytelling, cultural exploration and Jewish ...

Spokane Public Library has been selected as one of 40 libraries in the nation to receive a grant from the Yiddish Book Center. The grant is part of the center’s public libraries program to promote ...

By Steve RabeyReligion Correspondent For a century, American Jews have had an outsized role in American comedy. From Groucho Marx to Jerry Seinfeld, Jackie Mason to Jon Stewart, Joan Rivers to Gilda ...

JTA — Marc Shaiman likes to joke that for half a century he’s been “the funny Jewish guy at the piano,” a role as old as vaudeville and as enduring as a well-timed joke. But behind the punchline is a ...

At last year’s Academy Awards, Anora — a frenetic, somewhat ambiguously Jewish look at a Jewish enclave of New York, took home best picture, original screenplay, director and actress for its Jewish ...

“HUMOR can be dissected, as a frog can,” E. B. White once warned, “but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind.” Until recently, many ...

This fear is not theoretical. It is shaped by a steady escalation of antisemitic behavior, from online incitement to, in some ...

Tony and Emmy Award-winning comedian, actor and writer Alex Edelman performed stand-up for Northwestern students and ...

The Menier’s fresh staging of The Holy Rosenbergs unfolds over one tense night of family debate about Israel and Gaza ...

Purim is a one-day festival that honors the Jews' salvation from near destruction in Persia, or ancient Iran, nearly 2,400 ...

The episode with the pagers is crazy; just wait” and “I’m on the Iran season.” The series started off local but has gone international, she says: “Everyone’s watching… There’s talk of another season ...