How could this British troupe’s humor translate itself into Israeli Hebrew? It certainly was a challenge, but it was a gauntlet that was picked up by Zohar Sharon and Ron Oppenheim.
The festival assured that it would revise its policies and submission guidelines and adhere to the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel’s guidelines.
Jews using comedy as a remedy for tragedy is an old tradition. The 'Comedy for Koby' show will arrive in Israel in late may to uphold this tradition when the country appears to need it the most.
Nearly every sketch in the show satirizes an event from millennia’s worth of Jewish and Israeli religious texts and history. Its guiding principle is irreverence.
Rabbi Jill Hausman, of Manhattan's Actors’ Temple, made a cameo on "Saturday Night Live," participating in a segment that involved reading edgy jokes.
Comedy show satire features Defense Minister confronting Eurovision critics. Sketches parody campus activism and political response.
'I don’t want them to take anything away from it. I want them to just watch it and hopefully get a laugh or two,' Seinfeld says.
The now deleted-post led to Dane Baptiste’s agent dropping him as a client.
While Boris III is believed to have been horrified by the Nazis’ antisemitism, he was pressured into signing a law that sent Bulgarian Jews to concentration camps.
Experiencing 'Mickey Saves the Day', a time-travel comedy blending history and humor, challenging Israeli ideals with witty parody and poignant insights.
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