You know the saying, “All roads lead to Rome?” Well, I believe that the rich history of Jewish jokes can be traced back to the Hebrew month of Adar and the holiday of Purim. That’s right — we have ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. From Brett Gelman to Judy Gold, how Jewish comics are keeping the Chosen People smiling. In the weeks following the Oct. 7 attack ...

Are there jokes in the Bible? Are all those surrealistic bits in the Talmud meant to be funny? Are American Jews particularly funny? Did the shock of crossing the ocean while throwing up in steerage ...

Introduction: A joke, two definitions, seven themes, four warnings, and another joke -- What's so funny about anti-semitism? -- Not-so-nice Jewish doctors -- The wit of the Jews -- A view from the ...

“I know this is a tough time, but remember, I got past Pharaoh — you can get past this,” Moses says. (JTA) — Israelis have long taken pride in two things: the long arc of Jewish history, and their ...

In 2021, the Pew Research Center released a study about American Jewish identity. Among its findings: more than twice as many respondents cited “having a sense of humor” as central to their Jewish ...

On stage last Sunday at the Jewish Theological Seminary, the comedian Alex Edelman told a Jewish joke that he said he once read in an academic journal. It essentially goes like this: A man goes to ...

On stage last Sunday at the Jewish Theological Seminary, the comedian Alex Edelman told a Jewish joke that he said he once read in an academic journal. It essentially goes like this: A man goes to ...

For a century, American Jews have had an outsized role in American comedy. From Groucho Marx to Jerry Seinfeld, Jackie Mason to Jon Stewart, Joan Rivers to Gilda Radner, and Jerry Lewis to Seth Rogen, ...

When was the last time you had a really good laugh? Not just a giggle, but a full-on side-splitting, tear-enducing, I-can-barely-chatch-my-breath, belly laugh. Has it been a while? The last time I ...

(New York Jewish Week) — “We honeymooned at Kutsher’s in late October 1968,” Barbara Gelman recalled in an oral history for the Borscht Belt Museum. “When we ordered dinner, the waitress enumerated ...

An elderly man refuses to leave for the air raid shelter until he can find his dentures. His wife yells at him, “What, you think they are dropping sandwiches?” Life is a serious place, but do we have ...