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September 27, 2016
The Rocket Shelter Comedy Tour Goes to Israel
How do you make people laugh when they’re fighting on the front lines or ducking bombs? Is it even appropriate to crack jokes during wartime? Three comedians went to Israel to find out.
Israelis Get a Good Laugh (Care of a Catholic)
The well-known Rabbi Joseph Telushkin once remarked that the Jewish people laugh “in order not to cry.” Well, for fans of American comedy in Israel, there was certainly a good reason not to cry this Easter season.
Israel’s Lady Madonna
What has blond hair, a fancy for Kabbalah and causes Facebook newsfeeds throughout the Middle East to be bombarded by status updates? If you said Dimona, you’re close. It’s Madonna, and if it seemed as though her two recent shows at the end of her “Sticky and Sweet” tour brought Israel to a standstill — well, they almost did.
