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My Pastrami Mama: The complete first season


I'm drunk with excitement over Mel Gibson's Maccabee movie

Chanukah has come and gone, and Jewish parents everywhere can breathe a sigh of relief. It’s comforting to know that 5772/2011 will likely be the last year that we have to tell our kids the story of the Maccabees without the help of Mel Gibson. Last September, in an announcement that honored its four founding siblings — Hirsch, Aaron, Jacob and Szmul Wonskolaser — Warner Bros. proclaimed that it would finance Gibson’s next project: “The Judah Maccabee Story”! Gibson, who famously quipped (during a 2006 DUI incident), “The Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world,” apparently less-famously followed that with, “and I want to make movies out of all of them.”

Jonah Hill: ‘Moneyball’s’ super-talented, super-nice Jewish boy [VIDEO]


LMFAO - Sexy and I Know It (Parody) “Gassy and I’m Bloated” by Smooth-E


The Cinderella stories of Aline Brosh McKenna


Give Jews a holiday, we’ll find a way to ruin it with a disgusting food [VIDEO]


Happy Jewish New Year! [VIDEO]

For more Gold, check out his video from the Montreal Comedy Festival.

Adam Sandler proposes wife swap with Tom Cruise


Seth Rogen won’t do your bar mitzvah

Jewish Canadian actor Seth Rogen sat down recently with the South African Times and shared some personal facts about himself and what he has learned over the years.

Two Jews on Film: ‘Tower Heist’ review


GifelteBitch


Two Jews on Film: ‘The Big Year’ Review,


Comedy, seriously

Can comedy save a life?

The New Yorker’s Bruce Eric Kaplan on His New Book and Judd Apatow TV Series


Talking with Dan Fogelman of “Crazy, Stupid, Love” [VIDEO]


Contrary to type, Larry David’s not at all neurotic

Three adjectives are often used to describe Larry David, the star and creator of "Curb Your Enthusiasm," which recently premiered its eighth season after two excruciating Curb-less years.

Two Jews on Film: Horrible Bosses-Movie Review


Obvious vs. the-Not-So-Obvious!


Yom HaAtzmaut special: California on Hebrew [VIDEO]

KassemJEW is on the streets of Westwood to talk to Angelenos about Israel Independence Day. Happy Yom Ha'Atzmaut!

Ten Things I Hate About Commandments [VIDEO]

Ten Commandments Passover spoof video

The Colbert Report’s Government Shutdown Menorah [VIDEO]


My evening at the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences honoring “Hot in Cleveland”


California on Purim [VIDEO]

KassemJEW on the streets for Purim. What do you know about Purim?

Mendy Pellin’s unorthodox humor [VIDEO]

News anchor Mendy Pellin has gone where no Jewish journalist has ever gone before.

Very random thoughts…


Chelm Awards reveal the quirkier side of Israel

The Turkish flotilla to Gaza? Disagreement over a settlement freeze? Severe drought? Wildfire on the Carmel?

LIVE VIDEO: ‘Weeds’ Creator Talks with JewishJournal.com’s Danielle Berrin [2pm]


The Awkward Guy’s Guide to Making Man-Friends

“I’ve definitely been riding the ‘awkward train’ my entire career,” says John Hamburg, co-writer and director of the new comedy, “I Love You, Man.”

It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane—Oy Gevalt, It’s a Jewish ‘Watchmen’

And in fitting with “Watchmen’s” trademark plot twists and surprising revelations, “Watchmensch” has one of its own: Although it’s crammed with Yiddish dialogue, Jewish in-jokes and black hats, its creator isn’t Jewish.

Meshugene Men - It’s How Mad Men Does Purim


‘She’s acting like a Jew!’ Ho ho ho Chanukah! [VIDEO]


MUSIC VIDEO: Tom Lehrer—‘I’m spending Chanukah in Santa Monica’

A Tom Lehrer oldie turned into a video by a fan

MUSIC VIDEO: Captain SmartyPants—‘The Driedel Song’

Captain Smartypants, a Seattle Men's Chorus Ensemble, makes the Yuletide fun in Home For the Holidays.

MUSIC VIDEO: ‘All I want for Christmas is Jews’

Relax -- it's comedy

Arts in L.A. Quarterly Calendar: Cultural events through Feb. 2009


Annie Leibovitz, Ed Asner, Shelly Berman, Lainie Kazan and Elliot Gould


VIDEO:  Obama roasts Emanuel, says he’s the ‘Angel of Death’ for GOP


Calendar Girls Picks and Clicks Nov. 8 - 14: Healing Havdalah, comedy, films


Comedy icons back Obama with ‘Ain’t Funny’ TV spots [VIDEOS]

"We decided the most effective way to use the resources we have is to remove the air of fear some older voters have about Obama," said Doni Remba, Jewish Alliance for Change's executive director. "If they hear it from people they've watched and loved and who have entertained them their whole lives, they have an emotional bond of trust with them."

VIDEOS: Wassup 2008 meets Jewish Wassup


VIDEO: Wassup 2008

Its been eight long years since the boys said wassup to each other. Even with the effects of a down economy and imminent change in the White House, the boys are still able to come together and stay true to what really matters.

VIDEO: Islam TV—‘Faith Off’ for laughs


Calendar Girls Picks and Clicks Oct. 25-31: Jerusalem Symphony, Der Golem, Das Jazz, El Vote


VideoGuide to L.A. - Volume 4 - The Hollywood Dream


Hollywood comedy stars release four pro-Obama videos*


VideoGuide to L.A. - Volume 3 - Jewish L.A.


VideoGuide to L.A. - Volume 2 - driving


VideoGuide to L.A. - Volume 1 - looking the part


Methodist learns it’s 5769, says it’s awesome Jews live in the future


VIDEO: Sarah Silverman talks trash to back Barack


My VideoGuide to Los Angeles


Robert Schimmel: Cancer, through a lens comedic

He realized that even though he had just been told he had cancer, he hadn't been told he was going to die. To prove it, he was going to do the one thing that showed he was very much alive, which was to make people laugh.

VIDEO: Rosh Hashanah (funny) (political) e-card from Taglit-Birthright

The candidates reach out and apologize in the Rosh Hashanah tradition, blow a shofar, interrupt, smile, joke and yell, just like your family!

Arts in L.A. Quarterly Calendar: Cultural events through November 2008


All I want for Ramadan is you!


Old Jewish joke, new language


VIDEO: Heeb Olympics 2008—Gefilte Fish Wrestling

Four modern-day gladiators do battle for the gold (a lifetime supply of Gold's mustard) in the Heeb Olympics

VIDEO: The Bris Saver

It was an ordinary brit milah -- until the mohel passed out cold . . .

Calendar Girls Picks and Clicks August 9-15: Tisha B'Av, music, opera, comedy and Brad A. Greenberg

There's nothing like a heated, intelligent political debate to get Jews' social synapses firing. Jewish Journal staff writer, Brad Greenberg, a.k.a. The God Blogger, will be holding the reins of "The Young Jewish Vote," where Republican Jewish Coalition Director Larry Greenfield will face Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Pasadena) in a battle to win the hearts and educated minds of young Jewish professionals between the ages of 21 and 39

The Daily Show ripped me off!



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The 85-year-old comedy icon signs DVD copies of “The Jazz Singer,” the 1959 television remake that features Lewis as Joey Rabinowitz, a nightclub singer torn between show business and his faith. Wristbands will be distributed at 9 a.m., and Lewis will only sign copies of

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New Old Friends

I've recently become close with Abe and Frank, two older guys in my neighborhood. At 90 and 88 respectively, they’re not the typical age of my other friends. At first I wasn’t sure if it was friendship. Maybe they were just humoring me or passing the time. Why would old people want to be friends with me, a 35-year-old?