“Jamba Juice, Baja Fresh,” says Zack Claxon of Austin-based duo Beth Israel on “Family,” introducing the song like a bored narrator cruising down a franchised stretch of I-35. The tune, one of the ...

Can the Israel/Gaza conflict ever be funny? Michael Che is working on it. A new addition to "The Daily Show," he's a rising star in the stand-up community and was in Montreal to perform at the "Just ...

The time-honored role of the exiled Jew was to be downtrodden, bearded and bookish. Then Zionist dreamers pulled a mini state out of the hat, and went on to win war after war. Even non-belligerents ...

Among the institutions of the so-called international community, anti-Israel bias is so prevalent and obvious, it’s taken for granted and almost funny. The year-end statistics from the UN General ...

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Comedy Central blinks after game labeled anti-Semitic. A female robot with the acronym I.S.R.A.E.L. that marauds a middle-class suburban neighborhood killing children — over-the-top satire or ...

“Dear Jack,” writes a reader, “when’s the last time you wrote something funny?” Those days are gone when I wrote funny, or when anyone wrote funny. “That’s too bad. You were famous for your light ...

“The World Is Funny” and wondrously strange in the tender new dramedy from Israeli fabulist Shemi Zarhin (“Aviva, My Love”). Full of quirky charm, this ambitious, multistrand tale about storytelling — ...

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