Sarah Silverman
Hollywood is speaking up for Israel
By Jeffrey Salkin — October 26, 2023
Celebrities are speaking out in defense of Israel against Hamas terror. Let's take it to the next level.
No, Jewish characters do not require Jewish actors
By Jeffrey Salkin — November 3, 2021
(RNS) — The problem of gentiles playing Jews? Is this really a thing?
The thing about dead Jews
By Jeffrey Salkin — October 6, 2021
(RNS) — What is it about Jewish suffering that is so attractive?
Anti-Semitism is a public health crisis
By Jeffrey Salkin — December 4, 2019
(RNS) — Let's start treating Jew hatred the way we treated cigarette smoking. Make it taboo.
In Israel, a rabbinical plan to hide Africans facing deportation
By Lauren Markoe — January 18, 2018
JERUSALEM (RNS) — 'If someone had told me 10 years ago this would happen, I’d have said a Jewish state would never send desperate refugees away to their deaths,' said Rabbi Susan Silverman, sister of comedian Sarah Silverman.
Can the Holocaust be funny? A new film says, ‘Why not?’
By Kimberly Winston — April 19, 2017
(RNS) Tragedy plus time equals comedy — unless some subjects are so taboo they can never be funny.
Sarah Silverman attends Western Wall Hanukkah menorah lighting in support of women’s rights
By Michele Chabin — December 18, 2014
JERUSALEM (RNS) For decades, the site’s sole menorah has been lit on the men’s side of the wall, a fact that has angered Israeli and American women’s rights activists.
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