About a year ago, I decided to take an edible for the first time in nearly a decade, pick up a burger from In-N-Out, and turn on Curb Your Enthusiasm. Twenty minutes later, I found myself crying — ...

In 2021, the Pew Research Center released a study about American Jewish identity. Among its findings: more than twice as many respondents cited “having a sense of humor” as central to their Jewish ...

On April 10, DGA members took a hilarious look at the world of comedy and Jewish humor in film from the past as the Jewish Committee (JC) hosted its inaugural event, Laughing Out Loud! Jewish Humor ...

On stage last Sunday at the Jewish Theological Seminary, the comedian Alex Edelman told a Jewish joke that he said he once read in an academic journal. It essentially goes like this: A man goes to ...

PARK CITY, Utah, Jan. 28 (UPI) --Between the Temples, which screened online at the Sundance Film Festival, follows Cha Cha Real Smooth, You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah and Keeping Up with the ...

You know the saying, “All roads lead to Rome?” Well, I believe that the rich history of Jewish jokes can be traced back to the Hebrew month of Adar and the holiday of Purim. That’s right — we have ...

Jewish stand-up comedians have long had a talent for finding humor in even the most uncomfortable and difficult situations—just look at Larry David’s “Curb Your Enthusiasm.” But it becomes far harder ...

“I know this is a tough time, but remember, I got past Pharaoh — you can get past this,” Moses says. (JTA) — Israelis have long taken pride in two things: the long arc of Jewish history, and their ...

(New York Jewish Week) — “We honeymooned at Kutsher’s in late October 1968,” Barbara Gelman recalled in an oral history for the Borscht Belt Museum. “When we ordered dinner, the waitress enumerated ...

EASTON — Temple B’nai Israel, the Satell center for Jewish life on the Eastern Shore, is presenting an evening of Jewish humor on Saturday, March 7 at 7:30 p.m. The event is held at the temple at 7199 ...

Since October 7th, the Jewish community has been in mourning. Grief is a narrow-minded emotion, with little room for much else; and certainly no room for humor. And yet, even in the worst of times, ...