At the Cannes Film Festival last month, no Israeli films played. Actors and directors seemed expected to declare their views ...

As the crowd gathered at City Winery in Manhattan on Monday night for the 33rd annual Downtown Seder hosted by entrepreneur Michael Dorf, one performer was notably absent. Comedian Modi Rosenfeld, an ...

AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org. I’m Amy Goodman, with Juan González. We end today’s show with a new documentary, opening tonight in New York at the IFC, about the Israeli ...

Comedian Gibran Saleem had never met a Jewish person until starting his graduate studies at New York University more than a decade ago. The child of Pakistani immigrants, Saleem was raised in a Muslim ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Israeli stand-up comedian Guy Hochman has become an unlikely international flashpoint, facing protests, canceled shows and border ...

There’s nothing funny about what Jewish comics have faced in the post-Oct. 7 world. One of the first targets was Jerry Seinfeld, arguably the least offensive comic of his generation. Seinfeld has ...

“Comedy for Peace” is one of the Jewish highlights of the New York Comedy Festival, which also includes shows by Alex Edelman, Alex Borstein and Anna Roisman. Comedian Gibran Saleem had never met a ...