Saying ‘Allen Ginsberg’s Kaddish’ at UCLA

Published on April 10, 2013

For most Jews, the word Kaddish evokes images of loss, mourning, death. But for Hal Willner, “Kaddish” is a spoken-word piece — some would call it poetry — by Allen Ginsberg that evokes a very different image: family.

Q&A with Nikki Levy

By Ryan Torok
Published on September 27, 2012

“Don’t Tell My Mother!” creator Nikki Levy is a producer at 20th Century Fox who grew up in a Jewish household in New York — with a stereotypical Jewish mother. During a series of interviews, she described how, for her, the show’s best stories are wild without being mean-spirited, salacious but still enlightening. The following is an edited and condensed version of those interviews.

Jonah Hill hosts ‘SNL’

Published on March 13, 2012

Michael Bolton, Andy Samberg take on “Jack Sparrow” in latest Lonely Island Boys video

Published on May 9, 2011

Michael Bolton takes on "Jack Sparrow"

Greedy Winklevoss Twins, Lindsay Lohan’s Suffering, Bieber, and Hosni Mubarak on SNL

By Misha Henckel
Published on February 13, 2011

Vote Finger

By Brad A. Greenberg
Published on October 27, 2008

Palin and Palin cross paths on ‘SNL’

By Brad A. Greenberg
Published on October 19, 2008

From the recent ‘SNL’ archives: anti-Semitic jokes get edited out

By Brad A. Greenberg
Published on October 13, 2008

Al Franken leads in Senate race, poll finds

Published on October 9, 2008

Al Franken has taken the lead over incumbent Norm Coleman in the Minnesota Senate race, according to a new poll.

Tina Fey does Sarah Palin again

By Brad A. Greenberg
Published on October 6, 2008

Live From Hillel—It’s Laraine!

By Naomi Pfefferman
Published on January 23, 2003

Fans of the legendary first seasons of "Saturday Night Live" remember Laraine Newman sashaying with Gilda Radner in the hilarious faux commercial for "Jewess Jeans." They recall her Barbra Streisand impression and her angry beatnik character reciting bad poetry in nasal Brooklynese. But Newman, 50, will reveal one of her more serious roles when she's honored at Hillel at Pierce & Valley Colleges' Comedy Nite 2003 on Feb. 1: her involvement with the Jewish community. The granddaughter of an Arizona Jewish cattle rancher, Newman will describe how she grew up so assimilated that "all my Jewish friends went to Hess Kramer but I was shlepped off to Camp Trinity."

The ADL Is Not Amused

By Tom Tugend
Published on December 23, 1999

The Anti-Defamation League is not amused by a "Saturday Night Live" satire in which cast members, posing as pop stars, said that Jews own all the banks and that Christians have forgiven them for "killing our Lord."