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Culture These two anti-Zionist Jews think the Israeli government is so bad, it’s funny
Matt Lieb and Daniel Maté, co-hosts of comedy podcast ‘Bad Hasbara,' try to put a humorous spin on a serious subject
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Film & TV When Catherine O’Hara delivered the perfect Purim spiel
The ‘Schitt’s Creek’ actress, who died at 71, once gave a riotous turn as an actress playing a Southern Jewish matriarch
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Film & TV Judd Apatow on why Mel Brooks’ influence ‘will last as long as our jokes’
Apatow and Michael Bonfiglio, directors of the new HBO documentary on Brooks, talk about his legacy of laughter
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Film & TV Charles Grodin was a curmudgeon with a gooey center
A new documentary shows how the late actor used his celebrity for good
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Film & TV In ‘31 Candles,’ a manchild becomes bar mitzvah to court his crush
The rom-com is a messy meditation on American Jewry
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Books How the Yonkers-born son of Jewish immigrants became the king of American comedy
In what could be called 'Your Biography of Biographies,' David Margolick chronicles the unlikely stardom of Sid Caesar
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Opinion Can an idyllic dream of Israel ever be reality? She says: ‘Coexistence, My Ass’
Noam Shuster Eliassi has seen the best of Israel. It's not enough
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