FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — What's a Borscht Belt joke? Comedy historian Lenny Dave shares this classic told by the famous Catskills entertainer Myron Cohen. A Jewish grandmother is taking her grandson on ...

(New York Jewish Week) — “We honeymooned at Kutsher’s in late October 1968,” Barbara Gelman recalled in an oral history for the Borscht Belt Museum. “When we ordered dinner, the waitress enumerated ...

ELLENVILLE, N.Y. — The Borscht Belt Museum’s fourth annual Borscht Belt Fest drew 8,500 visitors from across the state to taste, hear and learn about the Catskills’ Jewish tradition. The weekend ...

If “dad joke” is an insult, why isn’t “grandfather joke”? Do people get funnier with age? Sam Hoffman, who founded the website Old Jews Telling Jokes, which was adapted into a book and an off-Broadway ...

The second annual Borscht Belt Fest, featuring comedy, food, music and storytelling, will take place July 26-28 in the Catskills. Organized by the Borscht Belt Museum in Ellenville, New York, this ...

He went on : “The Pope wants priests to get married–but only to Jewish women. That’s the only way they’ll remain celibate.” He continued: “I’ve been using stool softener as a recreational drug. I used ...

What’s a Borscht Belt joke? Comedy historian Lenny Dave shares this classic told by the famous Catskills entertainer Myron Cohen. A Jewish grandmother is taking her grandson on a walk on Coney ...