At AIPAC, Obama’s Jackie Mason Moment

By Rabbi Shmuley Boteach
Published on May 23, 2011

Jackie Mason Calls Obama the ‘SCH’-word

Published on March 16, 2009

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

Published on October 29, 2008

"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."

Hollywood comedy stars release four pro-Obama videos*

By The Web Guy
Published on October 22, 2008

CBS News is clueless about ‘The Great Schlep’ [VIDEO]

By The Web Guy
Published on October 14, 2008

With the Republican base on the ropes, all eyes are on Florida —again

By Raphael J. Sonenshein
Published on October 8, 2008

Jackie Mason says Silverman’s a ‘sick yenta’ for telling Jews to vote Obama

By Brad A. Greenberg
Published on October 5, 2008

VIDEOS: Jackie Mason vs.  Sarah Silverman—Battle YouTube

By The Web Guy
Published on October 4, 2008

She says Obama, he calls her a 'yenta.' It's an 'only in America' battle of the YouTube videos

Cartoonist captures comics

By Jay Firestone
Published on March 27, 2008

Friedman's new book, "More Old Jewish Comedians" (Fantagraphics Books, $16.99), a sequel to his 2006 "Old Jewish Comedians," continues his humorous, highly detailed caricatures of the Jewish comedians who once dominated the Catskills circuit.

7 Days In Arts

Published on June 5, 2003

7 Days In The Arts

Up Front

By Michael Aushenker
Published on June 11, 1998

If anyone was preordained to be a rabbi, it was Jackie Mason. Born in Sheboygan, Wis., in 1937, the Yiddish-accented comedian comes from four generations of rabbis. All three of his brothers are rabbis. And, once upon a time, Mason himself was a rabbi, teaching Talmud in far-out places like Lathrop, Pa., and Walden, N.C.