Comedian

Hanoch Daum speaks out about hilltop youth

Hanoch Daum's show, "Life Is a Difficult Age," is generally about how ordinary Daum’s life in the West Bank is.

SEPTEMBER 19, 2026|ByHANNAH BROWN

HANOCH DAUM in "Life Is a Difficult Age."

Israeli comedian Yohay Sponder has taken his English-language stand-up show to audiences around the world, using humor to tackle war, antisemitism, and Jewish identity.

'Jews never lose': Israeli comedian Yohay Sponder finds laughter amid war and hate

Israeli comedian Yohay Sponder is using humor to unite Jewish audiences worldwide, finding laughter amid war, loss, and rising antisemitism

AUGUST 17, 2026|ByRUTH MARKS EGLASH

Koby Mandell Foundation turns 25, Comedy for Koby goes on 40th tour

Avi Liberman, the creative founder of Comedy for Koby, will host the shows, describing the project as a "tremendous personal and professional source of pride."

MAY 25, 2026|ByHANNAH BROWN

Bringing the Moshiach energy: Jewish comedian Modi Rosenberg comes to NYC's Radio City

Modi’s two dates at New York City’s Radio City Music Hall, the biggest venue he’s played so far in his 30 years of stand-up, April 23 and April 30, are selling briskly.

APRIL 18, 2026|ByMICHAEL LEVIN

Jon Stewart, other Jewish comedians weigh in on Dave Chappelle’s ‘SNL’ monologue

Comedian Dave Chappelle delivered a 15-minute set – one that many saw as antisemitic – to start last week's episode of SNL.

NOVEMBER 18, 2022ByJACKIE HAJDENBERG/JTA

Jewish comedians Jon Stewart and Hannah Einbinder had opposite reactions to comedian Dave Chappelle's monologue on 'Saturday Night Live.'

Dave Chappelle: 'Not a crazy thing to think' that Jews run Hollywood

"The list of demands to get back in their [the NBA] good graces got longer and longer," said Chappelle in his monologue.

NOVEMBER 13, 2022BySAMUEL HALPERN

: Dave Chappelle speaks onstage at Q85: A Musical Celebration for Quincy Jones at the Microsoft Theatre on September 25, 2018 in Los Angeles, California.

'Jewminati is real,' comedian Michael Rappaport mocks Kanye West

Comedian Michael Rappaport took to his Twitter by joking about how Kanye West figured out about "Jewminati."

OCTOBER 29, 2022ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF

RAPPER KANYE West holds his first rally in support of his presidential bid, 2020. This past week, he proclaimed to more than 18 million social media followers that he was going to go “death (sic) con 3 on Jewish people.”

Modi on Sukkot, comedy and Israel

The Jerusalem Post Podcast with Yaakov Katz and Lahav Harkov.

OCTOBER 13, 2022ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF

Jewish comedian attacked by Trump supporter during stand-up show

The beer narrowly missed Elias, after which she picked it up and chugged from the can to applause from the audience.

OCTOBER 11, 2022ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF

People watch a performance at Comedy Club on its first night back open after loosened restrictions during the continued outbreak of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Manhattan, New York, US, April 2, 2021.

A heckler shouted 'Free Palestine.' Look what the comedian did in response

One Twitter user commented simply, "what a sad way to find out you were in Omaha."

OCTOBER 4, 2022ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF

People take part in a protest outside the Israeli embassy

This Israeli comedian is a stand-up comedy hit in English

Yohay Sponder, alongside Shahar Hason, are responsible for building the market of standup comedy in Israel performed in English. His shows at Bar Giyora are usually sold out.

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022ByALAN ZEITLIN

TEL AVIV resident Yohay Sponder drew many laughs at the Chosen Comedy Festival in Brooklyn last month.

WATCH: 'Comedian' becomes butt of joke when Jews he harassed turn the tables

"I'm about to go to some Jews right now asking how they feel about Palestine," said Comedian Abdullah Almasmari, stage name Dulla Mulla.

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Demonstrators take part in protests outside a meeting of the National Executive of Britain's Labour Party which will discuss the party's definition of antisemitism, in London

'Jewish Foodie' explores American Jewish communities through food

'Jewish Foodie' is the latest effort of the Ruderman Family Foundation to strengthen the bond between Israel and American Jewry.

AUGUST 20, 2022ByZVIKA KLEIN

ORI LAIZEROUVICH and Paul Weissman of the Lower East Side Jewish Conservancy at Katz's Deli in NYC while filming 'Jewish Foodie'.

Larry Storch, Jewish-American actor of 'F Troop' fame, dies at 99

Storch is most well-known for his Emmy-nominated role of the bumbling and dimwitted Cpl. Randolph Agarn on the popular 1960s Western comedic sitcom 'F Troop.'

JULY 9, 2022ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF