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‘What’s With Jews and Comedy?’ Borscht Belt-themed show to chronicle beloved Catskills comedy...
South Florida Sun Sentinel via Yahoo News· 3 months agoFORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — What’s a Borscht Belt joke? Comedy historian Lenny Dave shares this classic...
Freddie Roman, Staple Borscht Belt Stand-Up Comedian, Dies at 85
The Wrap via Yahoo News· 2 years agoFreddie Roman, a staple stand-up comedian in the Catskill Mountains’ Borscht Belt region and...
Freddie Roman Dies: Borscht Belt Comedian Who Appeared In Film And TV Was 85
Deadline via Yahoo News· 2 years agoFreddie Roman, a Borscht Belt staple whose comedy was long a part of the Friars Club roasts and was...
Borscht Belt comedian Freddie Roman dies at age 85
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 2 years agoComedian Freddie Roman, the former dean of The Friars Club and a staple of the Catskills comedy scene, has died. Roman died Saturday afternoon at...
Fire destroys building at vacant Grossinger's resort, once a Catskill jewel
Times Herald-Record via Yahoo News· 2 years agoLIBERTY — A fire consumed a building at the site of the long-closed Grossinger’s resort, once among...
Schumer’s highway to the Catskills angers environmentalists
Politico via Yahoo News· 1 year agoNEW YORK — Thousands of New Yorkers escape the sweltering heat of the concrete jungle each summer by fleeing their Brooklyn brownstones and Upper West Side co-ops and driving west on Route 17 ...
Abandoned hotel that inspired ‘Dirty Dancing’ suffers fire
TODAY via Yahoo News· 2 years agoA building was consumed by a fire at the site of a former upstate New York hotel that inspired the...
Beloved entertainer Dani Luv will hit the stage as NYC institution Sammy’s Roumanian makes a...
NY Post metro via AOL· 3 months agoOne of New York’s most well-known mensches is getting his tuchus back on stage. Dani Luv, the...
How Jewish comedians are helping keep hope alive post-October 7
NY Post via Yahoo News· 3 months agoFrom Brett Gelman to Judy Gold, how Jewish comics are keeping the Chosen People smiling. In the...
‘Look Into My Eyes’ Review: Lana Wilson’s Doc About New York City Psychics Doesn’t See Much
The Hollywood Reporter via Yahoo News· 5 months agoThere’s a genuinely moving scene at the beginning of the new documentary by Lana Wilson (After...