Although Yiddish humor is an essential part of the Jewish cultural tradition, it’s rare to find a comedy act today that’s completely in Yiddish.
Join the Forverts for an all-Yiddish online comedy hour with Rabbi Barry Schechter, of Skokie, Illinois, who regales viewers with delightful jokes in mame-loshn that he’s collected over the years.
Rabbi Schechter has appeared on the radio in Chicago and Washington DC and headlined the program “Is Comedy Dead?” - a Christmas Eve event at a Chicago funeral home. Although he’s interspersed his acts with Yiddish words and phrases, this is the first time he’s doing it all in Yiddish.