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Shlomi Bertonov, right, as Ben in "Concerned Citizen." (Photo/JTA-Guy Sahaf)
Posted inTV & Film

Israeli drama film ‘Concerned Citizen’ tackles gentrification and race issues in Tel Aviv

Sarah Rosen by Sarah Rosen June 4, 2023June 2, 2023

(JTA) — The Israeli satirical drama film “Concerned Citizen” opens with the sacrosanct rituals of a bourgeois Tel Aviv life: a robot vacuum slides gracefully across the floor; lush house plants […]

American author Joshua Cohen is seen at the Coop Ambasciatori bookshop in Bologna, Italy, Sept. 5, 2019. (Photo/JTA-Roberto Serra-Iguana Press-Getty Images)
Posted inBooks

Joshua Cohen’s satirical novel ‘The Netanyahus’ wins Pulitzer Prize for fiction

by Andrew Silow-Carroll and JTA May 9, 2022
Mort Sahl in 1960. (Photo/JTA-Getty Images)
Posted inNews

Mort Sahl, Jewish comedian and political satirist who inspired the likes of Lenny Bruce, dies at 94 in Mill Valley

Shira Hanau by Shira Hanau and JTA October 27, 2021
Sacha Baron Cohen as Borat Sagdiyev on "Jimmy Kimmel Live," Oct. 19, 2020. (Screenshot from YouTube)
Posted inComedy

As Borat, Sacha Baron Cohen mocks coronavirus antisemitism conspiracy theories on Jimmy Kimmel

Gabe Friedman by Gabe Friedman and JTA October 21, 2020October 21, 2020
An animated Stephen Miller in Hip Hop Hoodíos' "Mexican Miller"
Posted inMusic

‘Mexican Miller’: Jewish Latino rappers take aim at Stephen Miller in new music video

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky October 6, 2020October 7, 2020
Lior Schleien, shown here in a 2018 segment, is the host of the Israeli satirical show "Gav HaUma." (Screenshot from Facebook)
Posted inComedy

Meet Lior Schleien, Israel’s Jon Stewart

Ben Sales by Ben Sales and JTA February 21, 2020
Taika Waititi, center, wrote and directed "Jojo Rabbit." Roman Griffin Davis, jumping to his right, co-stars. (Photo/Kimberley French-Twentieth Century Fox)
Posted inFilm

‘Jojo Rabbit’ is a satirical lesson in how children learn to hate

by Emily Burack and JTA October 21, 2019October 23, 2019
A cover of Mad Magazine, which will no longer publish new content, from 1968 (Photo/JTA-Elizabeth W. Kearley-Getty Images)
Posted inComedy

How Mad magazine taught me to think like a Jewish intellectual

by Andrew Silow-Carroll July 9, 2019
Hans Moser in “The City Without Jews” (Photo/Courtesy JFI)
Posted inTV & Film

Restored 1924 Austrian satire eerily foreshadows Jewish fate

Laura Pall by Laura Paull July 16, 2018

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