Benji Lovitt
By Benji Lovitt
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Opinion The Rocket Shelter Comedy Tour Goes to Israel
Courtesy of Benji Lovitt The “we laugh to keep from crying” line sometimes feels a bit of a cliché but when you live in Israel, you experience it daily. At least during the last 40-plus days of Operation Protective Edge, which still hasn’t officially ended during the current ceasefire talks. In the eight years I’ve…
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The Schmooze 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. Comedy Central and late-night TV regular, Jim Gaffigan, a practicing Catholic, surprised fans when he performed two impromptu…
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Israel News 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 —…
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