The announcement last week that Katerina McCrimmon would star as Fanny Brice in the national tour of “Funny Girl,” the Broadway musical about a trailblazing Jewish comedian, has ignited criticism from ...

For a documentary about comedy, “Making Trouble” has a funny name. I mean “funny” as in odd, not “funny” as in, you know, hilarious — even though the film itself has lots of humor. In other words: ...

FUNNY, BUT I DO LOOK JEWISH, at least to myself, and more and more so as the years go by. I’m fairly sure I didn’t always look Jewish, not when I was a boy, or possibly even when a young man, though I ...

“Funny Girl” may be the most Jewish Broadway musical this side of “Fiddler on the Roof.” And like “Fiddler,” it debuted on Broadway 60 years ago, in 1964. The touring production of “Funny Girl” is ...

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In television’s early days, Caesar translated Jewish humor into a language America didn’t yet know it understood.

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Alan Silberberg is an award-winning author, cartoonist and children’s TV creator, whose latest book is “The Bagel Who Wanted Everything.” This funny, heart-warming story of a plain bagel’s quest to be ...

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Some Jewish performers and their allies in the theater community say the production had advertised itself as “specifically seeking actors of Jewish heritage.” (JTA) — The announcement this week that ...

(JTA) — The announcement this week that Katerina McCrimmon would star as Fanny Brice in the national tour of “Funny Girl,” the Broadway musical about a trailblazing Jewish comedian, has ignited ...