This is the Forward’s coverage of the art of satire. You may also find satirical work of our own here — we will always label these articles to ensure they do not misinform.
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Culture When Fox News Went From Chinatown to Boro Park in Search of More Stereotypes
After Jesse Watters’s triumphant trip to New York’s Chinatown, he headed south to Boro Park. Having spent time with people vaguely represented in the foreign policy discussion of the Vice Presidential candidates, he wanted to meet the Jews who have been the subjects of so many tweets by Donald Trump’s supporters. The segment hasn’t yet…
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Community The Difficulties of Creating a Global Jewish Conspiracy
(Editor’s note: this piece is satirical.) I was trying to organize a Jewish conspiracy, but we couldn’t agree on anything. We tried forming an exploratory committee, but that was defeated by a series of conflicting agendas and ideologies. It’s not like we’re a monolith. The committee on typestyles came back with a decision, but the…
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Life Spoofing the Sex-Drenched Zionism of North American Jews
Good satire depends not only on distancing the viewer from the object of ridicule, but on making them identify with it, if only just a little. For North American Jews who’ve grown up with affection towards Israel, a new video blog (or vlog) does just that. is a sendup of sex-drenched Zionism which purports to…
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Opinion Award for Most Unfunny Israeli Comedy Goes to…
Tzipi Livni as depicted by Israeli satire “Hakol Shafit” / YouTube When it comes to political satire shows, Israeli television spans the gamut. On Channel 2 there’s Israel’s version of Saturday Night Live, called “Eretz Nehederet” or “A Wonderful Land.” Israel’s Jon Stewart-esque “Gav HaUma” recently moved to Channel 10. Both of these shows have…
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The Schmooze First the Bibi-Sitter, Now Miri Poppins
Many Israelis breathed a sigh of relief last month when the Israeli satire show Eretz Nehederet (A Great Country) came back just in time for the elections. The popular TV show is one of the only safe places in Israeli TV — by this I mean that nothing is off limits, and even the most…
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News French Man Charged With Threats Over Cartoon
Police detained a young man in southern France on Thursday on suspicion that he was planning a revenge attack on the staff of a satirical magazine which published cartoons mocking the Prophet Mohammad. Anti-terrorism magistrates near the Mediterranean port city of Toulon questioned the 18-year-old after he threatened in a message on Facebook to cut…
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