Forest, 90, is performing her one-woman show, “90 Years of Songs and Scandal,” as part of the New York City Fringe Festival. D’yan Forest is, in the truest sense of the phrase, one of a kind. That’s ...

Before there was The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, there was a long history of Jewish female comedians, standing up and speaking out. Although stand-up comedy is often described as a “boy’s club,” the truth ...

D’yan Forest leads a double life. By day, the 91-year-old singer and comedian is Diana Schulman, an aficionado of golf, swimming and cappuccinos. By night, like Clark Kent morphing into Superman, she ...

“Comedy for Peace” is one of the Jewish highlights of the New York Comedy Festival, which also includes shows by Alex Edelman, Alex Borstein and Anna Roisman. Comedian Gibran Saleem had never met a ...

OK, this isn’t the setup for an actual joke. Rather, it’s the premise of Comedy for Peace, a touring ensemble of stand-up comics from different religious backgrounds that perform on the same bill to ...

Although antisemitism and Jewish identity rarely receive such explicit attention in national news media, these themes do more tacitly infuse everyday American popular media. Across films, TV series, ...

Nobody Wants This is a romantic comedy following an agnostic white American woman, Joanne (Kristen Bell), and “hot rabbi” Noah Roklov (Adam Brody). Falling for Noah is easy but maintaining a ...