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Teitelbaum performs on 'The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon,' April 5, 2023. (Todd Owyoung/NBC/via JTA)
April 7, 2023, 4:45 pm
Indie group Blondshell’s secret sauce is 1990s women rockers and ‘Jewish’ dark humor
While Larry David and Sarah Silverman were constantly on repeat in her NY home, Sabrina Teitelbaum’s sound draws from Courtney Love and PJ Harvey for album dropping April 7
By Gabe Friedman
Composite photo showing Chelsea Handler (L) at The Hollywood Reporter's Women in Entertainment Gala at Fairmont Century Plaza in Los Angeles, December 7, 2022. (Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP); Sarah Silverman (C) at the 75th annual Tony Awards at Radio City Music Hall in New York, June 12, 2022. (Evan Agostini/Invision/AP); Al Franken (R) poses backstage at the 92nd Street Y in New York, May 31, 2022. (Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)
December 21, 2022, 9:23 am
As Trevor Noah exits ‘The Daily Show,’ Jewish guest hosts lined up
First episode without Noah to be hosted by SNL star Leslie Jones, with comics Sarah Silverman, Al Franken, and Chelsea Handler scheduled to follow
By Andrew Lapin
Sarah Silverman (right) is one of several Jewish stars who feature in David Baddiel's documentary 'Jews Don't Count,' which discusses whether Jews lack allies in progressive spaces. (Channel 4 via JTA)
November 22, 2022, 4:57 pm
‘Jews Don’t Count’? UK comic David Baddiel brings a provocative book to primetime TV
Guardian hails ‘a doc so shocking it sounds like a siren’; exploring the normalization of antisemitism, it includes thoughts from Sarah Silverman, Jonathan Safran Foer, Stephen Fry
By Jacob Judah
Dave Chappelle hosts 'Saturday Night Live,' November 12, 2022. (NBC Universal via JTA)
November 18, 2022, 6:54 pm
Jewish comedians weigh in on Chappelle’s controversial SNL monologue
Hannah Einbinder says skit was ‘littered with antisemitism’; Jon Stewart defends comedian, urges people to consider it ‘from a Black perspective’
By Jackie Hajdenberg
Sarah Silverman speaks on stage at Variety's 2022 Power Of Women event in New York City, May 5, 2022. (Cindy Ord/Getty Images for Variety via JTA)
June 8, 2022, 6:20 am
‘Jewface’ critic Sarah Silverman joins Netflix film casting Bradley Cooper as a Jew
Non-Jewish Cooper will play influential conductor and composer Leonard Bernstein with a prosthetic nose in ‘Maestro’ biopic, which will be released next year
By Andrew Lapin
Joan Rivers (left), and daughter Melissa Rivers at the 2013 Matrix New York Women in Communications Awards, in New York, April 22, 2013. (AP/Evan Agostini/Invision)
October 27, 2021, 12:15 pm
Joan Rivers series that sparked ‘Jewface’ debate scrapped by Showtime
Plans for ‘The Comeback Girl’ starring Kathryn Hahn dropped by the network after it failed to secure rights from daughter Melissa Rivers
By Amy Spiro
Tony Shalhoub, playing Abe Weissman, with Rachel Brosnahan, playing Miriam Maisel, in season three of 'The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.' (Amazon Studios)
October 12, 2021, 4:25 am
Who can play a Jew? Celebs claim double standard over onscreen representation
With the role of Golda Meir going to Helen Mirren and Ruth Bader-Ginsburg to Felicity Jones, more voices are asking why identity politics in casting doesn’t seem to apply to Jews
By Amy Spiro
Sarah Silverman participates in a panel during the Hulu Television Critics Association Summer Press Tour at the Beverly Hilton on Thursday, July 27, 2017. (Willy Sanjuan/Invision/AP)
October 5, 2021, 11:19 am
‘Jewface’: Sarah Silverman pans casting of non-Jews as Jews
The actress and comedian asks why, ‘when the importance of representation is seen as so essential… does ours constantly get breached?’
By Amy Spiro
Sarah Silverman poses before an Emmy For Your Consideration event for the Showtime series "Who Is America?" at Paramount Studios, on May 15, 2019, in Los Angeles. (Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP)
October 3, 2021, 6:54 pm
Sarah Silverman lays into ‘Squad’ over attempts to defund Iron Dome
Jewish comic says she loves AOC, Tlaib, and Omar, but finds it ‘bizarre’ that none of them are mentioning Hamas
By ToI Staff and JTA
Stand-up comedian and actress Sarah Silverman talks about Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., at a campaign event at Los Angeles Convention Center in Los Angeles Sunday, March 1, 2020. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
June 18, 2021, 12:52 am
Maybe add a Jewess to the Squad, comedian Silverman asks progressives
But raunchy actress turns down invitation from Ilhan Omar to join band of outspoken representatives, some of whom have been accused of antisemitism
By Gabe Friedman
Screen capture of the Twitter page of Israeli writer and activist Hen Mazzig in a post using the JewishPriveleg hashtag, July 12, 2020. (Twitter)
July 15, 2020, 12:54 pm
Tales of Jewish suffering take over anti-Semitic ‘JewishPrivilege’ hashtag
Twitter trend sees over 100,000 people share personal stories of discrimination, including US comedian Sarah Silverman and other well-known figures
By Stuart Winer
Adam Schlesinger at the Creative Arts Emmy Awards in Los Angeles, September 14, 2019. (Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)
June 18, 2020, 10:43 am
Celebrity charity album released in tribute to Adam Schlesinger
Sarah Silverman, Rachel Bloom and more feature in collection of covers for Grammy and Emmy Award-winning Jewish songwriter who died of COVID-19 complications
By Gabe Friedman
Gal Gadot at the 92nd Street Y on October 1, 2017, in New York City. (Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images via JTA)
March 20, 2020, 1:47 am
Gal Gadot gets celeb friends ‘together’ for virtual sing-along
Israeli star and other non-singers croon John Lennon’s ‘Imagine’ in bid to pep up spirits dampened by coronavirus crisis
By Marcy Oster
Illustrative: There was much rejoicing at Tiffany Haddish's bat mitzvah in Beverly Hills, California, December 3, 2019. (Emma McIntyre/Getty Images for Netflix via JTA)
December 5, 2019, 9:00 am
Tiffany Haddish has celebrity-filled bat mitzvah
Billy Crystal, Chelsea Handler and Sarah Silverman on hand to help comedian celebrate event, which she dubbed her ‘Black Mitzvah,’ on the occasion of her 40th birthday
By Gabe Friedman
Sarah Silverman at a photo op for Hulu's "I Love You America" at the Chateau Marmont in Los Angeles, Oct. 11, 2017. (Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images via JTA)
October 15, 2019, 7:33 pm
Sarah Silverman films late-night pilot series for HBO
Jewish comedian says show will feature commentary ‘on the mishigas of the week’ and that no topic is ‘off the table’
By Marcy Oster
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