Two Jewish comedians have claimed their shows have been cancelled on the Edinburgh Fringe this year because of “safety concerns” from staff at the venue. Rachel Creeger was set to perform her show ...

Rachel Creeger and Philip Simon have had their Edinburgh shows cancelled by the Whistle Binkies bar, allegedly for ‘safety reasons’ - Matt Writtle for The Telegraph Edinburgh’s Niddry Street comes ...

Separate the signal from the noise about antisemitism and understand current debates over Jewish safety. Sign up for the Antisemitism Decoded newsletter today. Peter Sellers, the English Jewish ...

For those who miss the very funny, very Jewish presence of the late comedy icons Gene Wilder and Gilda Radner, a new off-Broadway play that tells the story of their eight-year relationship practically ...

On stage on Sunday, Sept. 7, 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 ...

Comedian Gibran Saleem had never met a Jewish person until starting his graduate studies at New York University more than a decade ago. The child of Pakistani immigrants, Saleem was raised in a Muslim ...

Stand-up comedian Mordechai Rosenfeld distinguishes between "comedians who are Jewish," and "Jewish comedians"--and he classifies himself in the latter category. "The Jewish is right up front," said ...

Introduction : the world of Jewish comedians -- 1. The golden door and the velvet curtain, 1890-1930 -- 1. The land of hope and tears : comedians and immigrant America -- 2. Curtain up and curtain ...