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Simcha Weinstein is an award-winning author, whose latest book is Shtick Shift: Jewish Humor in the 21st century (Barricade Books: 2008) is out now. He also chairs the Religious Affairs Committee at Pratt Institute in New York. Simcha serves as rabbi to Long Island College Hospital.

	January 19th, 2010 Family Goy This absurd but brutally honest animated comedy pushes the limits A ventriloquist's cartoonish dummy can vocalize insults that would earn the ventriloquist himself a punch in the nose. In much the same way, on "harmless ...
	September 17th, 2009 The Creation Controversy One Rabbi’s Rosh Hashanah reflection on Evolution Have you heard the one about the time the monkey escaped from the zoo? The zookeeper looked high and low, and after a long search, ...
	August 13th, 2009 Kill Adolf Inglorious Basterds and the new wave of "tough Jews" in movies Have you ever wondered what life would be like if you hadn't taken that job, or gone to that school, or moved to that neighborhood?In ...
	July 10th, 2009 Is Bruno Good for the Jews? The Borat star once again pushes the limits of comedy (and comfort) “What’s up?” you ask. For one thing, the new movie, Brüno.The swishy, semi-fascist fashionista Brüno is the imaginary Austrian TV personality created by the very ...
	June 24th, 2009 A Comedy of Biblical Proportions Year One and the dawning of a new age in Jewish comedy Sunday school just got a lot more interesting. The new movie Year One is an Old Testament version of the classic Monty Python comedy The ...

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