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‘Shalom suckas.” With that decidedly unorthodox greeting, the most distinctive competitor in the recent 21st annual Funniest Jewish Comedian Contest began his comedy set. Then James “The Sha” Beamon, 32, an African-American Jew from Roslyn, L.I., told the crowd at The Broadway Comedy Club about life as a convert, and as “a Jewish Jedi.” “I’m […]
(JTA) — Mark Talisman, who as an aide to an Ohio congressman helped write and muster support for a key measure in the fight to free Soviet Jewry and went on to devote himself to Jewish advocacy and historical memory, has died. He would have been 79 next week. His death was announced on Facebook […]
Lagnado's 2007 memoir of her Egyptian-Jewish family won the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature.