Fiction Horizon on MSN

The Comedy Classic You Can’t Miss Is Now Streaming on Prime Video

Blazing Saddles, the legendary comedy from Mel Brooks, is now available for streaming on Prime Video, giving audiences a ...
Jewish Exponent

Well-Known Comedic Duo Comes to Philly to Tell Tales of Judaism in Sweden

Explore the YidLife Crisis and its unique take on Jewish culture in Sweden. Discover the comedy behind Yiddish heritage.
Comic Basics on MSN

A Comedy Classic Just Started Streaming on Prime Video

Mel Brooks’ 1974 comedy classic Blazing Saddles is now available for streaming on Prime Video, giving a new generation of ...

He’s Gay. He’s an Observant Jew. His Comedy Career Is Booming.

Mordechi Rosenfeld, known as Modi, already has the synagogue crowd. Now he wants the “Goyim, gays and theys,” too.
Santa Monica Daily Press

Musical Comedy About Yiddish Storyteller Returns to Santa Monica Playhouse

A musical comedy celebrating the life and work of beloved Yiddish storyteller Sholom Aleichem will return to Santa Monica Playhouse this August and September for its sixth year. "Aleichem Sholom! The ...
The Forward on MSN

Has the Jewish joke become an endangered species — Òu sont les blagues d’antan?

In 'The Last Jewish Joke,' eminent Parisian sociologist Michel Wieviorka laments the passing of an era in Jewish humor.
J. The Jewish News of Northern California

Carmel Jewish film fest features Jews in Sweden, in space and beyond

From documentary to comedy to heartfelt drama, this film festival brings a slate of films to the Monterey Bay area.
The Berkshire Edge

BITS & BYTES: Tammie Brown at The Foundry; Art in the Berkshires and The Lenox Collection partnership; CATA at Becket Arts Center; Bottomless Bricks at Wander; Mi…

The Foundry presents “‘Ethereal,” a night of cosmic camp and otherworldly comedy with Bohemian drag Superstar Tammie Brown.
Jewish Telegraphic Agency

At YIVO, an unfinished Yiddish dictionary gets the last word — as opera

To mark its centenary, YIVO stages a work about the competing visions for a monumental, and aborted, reference work about the language of Eastern Europe’s Jews. In the hallways of New York’s YIVO ...
The New York Times

The Dueling Scholars Who Bickered a Yiddish Dictionary Into Existence

The Jewish tradition of debate is at the center of a new chamber opera about two scholars clashing over a Yiddish dictionary in the aftermath of World War II. By Rob Tannenbaum Arguments, on topics ...