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An interview show celebrating Jewish contributors and contributions to American popular culture co-hosted by Jonathan Friedmann and Joey Angel-Field.
Amusing Jews
Amusing Jews
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26 AUG 2024 · Rob Kutner is an award-winning author and television writer whose credits include The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien, Teen Titans Go!, Ben10, and many more. He’s also written for the Oscars, Emmys, Writers’ Guild Awards, MTV Movie Awards, and other awards shows. His books include Apocalypse How, Snot Goblins and Other Tasteless Tales, and The Future According to Me. He’s currently working on an animated action-adventure comedy series, God’s Gang.
Co-hosts: Jonathan Friedmann & Joey Angel-Field
Producer-Engineer: Mike Tomren
Rob’s IMDb
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1243193/
Rob’s website
https://www.robkutner.com/
God’s Gang – trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXLtCsa6yy4
God’s Gang – full episode
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPVtpRlNQY4
Snot Goblins
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250780799/snotgoblinsandothertastelesstales
Amusing Jews Merch Store
https://www.amusingjews.com/merch#!/
Subscribe to the Amusing Jews podcast
https://www.spreaker.com/show/amusing-jews
Adat Chaverim – Congregation for Humanistic Judaism, Los Angeles
https://www.humanisticjudaismla.org/
Jewish Museum of the American West
https://www.jmaw.org/
Atheists United Studios
https://www.atheistsunited.org/au-studios
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19 AUG 2024 · Ari Richter is a visual artist and comics creator who’s a professor of fine arts at LaGuardia Community College in The City University of New York. His debut graphic memoir is Never Again Will I Visit Auschwitz: A Graphic Family Memoir of Trauma & Inheritance.
Co-hosts: Jonathan Friedmann & Joey Angel-Field
Producer-engineer: Mike Tomren
Never Again Will I Visit Auschwitz
https://www.fantagraphics.com/collections/ari-richter/products/never-again-will-i-visit-auschwitz-a-graphic-family-memoir-of-trauma-inheritance
Ari’s website
https://www.aririchter.com/
Ari’s professor page
https://lagcc-cuny.digication.com/fine-arts-program/ari-richter
Amusing Jews Merch Store
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Adat Chaverim – Congregation for Humanistic Judaism, Los Angeles
https://www.humanisticjudaismla.org/
Jewish Museum of the American West
https://www.jmaw.org/
Atheists United Studios
https://www.atheistsunited.org/au-studios
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12 AUG 2024 · Allen Frishman is the archival officer of the Borscht Belt Museum in Ellenville, New York, which celebrates the golden age of the Catskills resort era, when millions of mostly Jewish urbanites sought refuge in the mountains of upstate New York. He’s also the author of two books: Tales of a Catskill Mountain Plumber and More Borscht from a Catskill Mountain Plumber.
Co-hosts: Jonathan Friedmann & Joey Angel-Field
Producer-engineer: Mike Tomren
Borscht Belt Museum
https://www.borschtbeltmuseum.org/
Allen’s website
https://www.allenfrishman.com/
Tales of a Catskill Mountain Plumber
https://www.amazon.com/Tales-Catskill-Mountain-Plumber-Frishman/dp/1523632178/ref=sr_1_2?dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.AD8q-fBIKZKuLHeYTQe23DdQu5hV29Xa8w0jBbqrRO0.3bfP7UW-1XYueNwZfOhFkBOALVh_6Z0FtPIFqOq2GK4&dib_tag=se&qid=1722003226&refinements=p_27%3AAllen+J.+Frishman&s=books&sr=1-2
More Borscht from a Catskill Mountain Plumber
https://www.amazon.com/More-Borscht-Catskill-Mountain-Plumber/dp/B0BRP7MW5N/ref=sr_1_1?dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.AD8q-fBIKZKuLHeYTQe23DdQu5hV29Xa8w0jBbqrRO0.3bfP7UW-1XYueNwZfOhFkBOALVh_6Z0FtPIFqOq2GK4&dib_tag=se&qid=1722003226&refinements=p_27%3AAllen+J.+Frishman&s=books&sr=1-1
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Adat Chaverim – Congregation for Humanistic Judaism, Los Angeles
https://www.humanisticjudaismla.org/
Jewish Museum of the American West
https://www.jmaw.org/
Atheists United Studios
https://www.atheistsunited.org/au-studios
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5 AUG 2024 · Joe Alterman is a jazz pianist who’s performed at such prestigious venues as the Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center, Birdland, and Blue Note with his own trio and alongside legends like Houston Person, Les McCann, Dick Gregory, and Ramsey Lewis. Downbeat describes his sound as “rooted in the blues, and with a touch reminiscent of the great pianists of the 1950s—Red Garland, Ahmad Jamal, Bill Evans.”
Co-hosts: Jonathan Friedmann & Joey Angel-Field
Producer-engineer: Mike Tomren
Joe’s website
https://www.joealtermanmusic.com/
Joe’s YouTube channel
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChq5mhnUt3EePioDpWuYalg
Amusing Jews Merch Store
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Subscribe to the Amusing Jews Podcast
https://www.spreaker.com/show/amusing-jews
Adat Chaverim – Congregation for Humanistic Judaism, Los Angeles
https://www.humanisticjudaismla.org/
Jewish Museum of the American West
https://www.jmaw.org/
Atheists United Studios
https://www.atheistsunited.org/au-studios
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29 JUL 2024 · Margie Haber is a renowned acting coach whose celebrity clients include Brad Pitt, Halle Berry, Tiffany Haddish, and many others. She runs Margie Haber Studio in Los Angeles and is the author of two books, How to Get the Part Without Falling Apart and F*ck Your Comfort Zone: Take a Risk and Become the Lead in Your Own Life.
Co-hosts: Jonathan Friedmann & Joey Angel-Field
Producer-engineer: Mike Tomren
F*ck Your Comfort Zone
https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/F*ck-Your-Comfort-Zone/Margie-Haber/9781682451960
Margie’s podcast
https://margiehaber.com/acting-podcasts/
Margie Haber Studio
https://margiehaber.com/
Amusing Jews Merch Store
https://www.amusingjews.com/merch#!/
Subscribe to the Amusing Jews podcast
https://www.spreaker.com/show/amusing-jews
Adat Chaverim – Congregation for Humanistic Judaism, Los Angeles
https://www.humanisticjudaismla.org/
Jewish Museum of the American West
https://www.jmaw.org/
Atheists United Studios
https://www.atheistsunited.org/au-studios
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22 JUL 2024 · Esther Friesner is a prolific and award-winning science fiction and fantasy author known for her humorous style and thematic focus on gender equality and social justice. Her many books include the Nobody’s Princess, Sphinx’s Princess, the Chicks in Chainmail series, and Threads and Flames, a YA novel about a Jewish girl caught up in the tragedy of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire.
Co-hosts: Jonathan Friedmann & Joey Angel-Field
Producer-engineer: Mike Tomren
Esther’s Wikipedia page
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esther_Friesner
Esther’s Goodreads page
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/33502.Esther_M_Friesner
Amusing Jews Merch Store
https://www.amusingjews.com/merch#!/
Subscribe to the Amusing Jews podcast
https://www.spreaker.com/show/amusing-jews
Adat Chaverim – Congregation for Humanistic Judaism, Los Angeles
https://www.humanisticjudaismla.org/
Jewish Museum of the American West
https://www.jmaw.org/
Atheists United Studios
https://www.atheistsunited.org/au-studios
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15 JUL 2024 · Aaron Fruchtman is a musicologist and composer whose work examines Jewish film composers during Hollywood’s Golden Age. He holds degrees in music composition from Berklee College of Music and the University of California, Riverside, and a doctorate in musicology from UC Riverside. He also earned an Advanced Studies Certificate in Music for Motion Pictures and Television from the University of Southern California.
Co-hosts: Jonathan Friedmann & Joey Angel-Field
Producer-engineer: Mike Tomren
Aaron’s Wikipedia page
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Fruchtman
Sounding the Shofar in Hollywood Film Scores
https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvbcd1px.14
Projections of Musical Jewishness: Composers of Hollywood's Golden Age
https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2500c312
Amusing Jews Merch Store
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https://www.spreaker.com/show/amusing-jews
Adat Chaverim – Congregation for Humanistic Judaism, Los Angeles
https://www.humanisticjudaismla.org/
Jewish Museum of the American West
https://www.jmaw.org/
Atheists United Studios
https://www.atheistsunited.org/au-studios
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8 JUL 2024 · Jeff Treistman is founder of the Jewish Comics Library of Seattle and the author and publisher of Graven, the library’s newsletter. He also has a Substack blog, Son of the Wicked Child.
Co-hosts: Jonathan Friedmann & Joey Angel-Field
Producer-engineer: Mike Tomren
JCLS Website
https://sites.google.com/view/jewish-comics-library/catalog?authuser=0
JCLS Catalog
https://www.librarycat.org/lib/JCLS2023
JCLS – GoFundMe
https://www.gofundme.com/f/jewish-comics-library-of-seattle-stimulus-package/donate?modal=share&source=btn_story_donate
Graven
https://jewishcomicslibrary.substack.com/
Son of the Wicked Child
https://jefftreistman.substack.com/
Amusing Jews Merch Store
https://www.amusingjews.com/merch#!/
Subscribe to the Amusing Jews podcast
https://www.spreaker.com/show/amusing-jews
Adat Chaverim – Congregation for Humanistic Judaism, Los Angeles
https://www.humanisticjudaismla.org/
Jewish Museum of the American West
https://www.jmaw.org/
Atheists United Studios
https://www.atheistsunited.org/au-studios
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1 JUL 2024 · Andy Muchin is an occasional freelance writer and host of the Sounds Jewish radio show, which has aired weekly since 2010. Sounds Jewish is available on Mississippi Public Broadcasting, Radio-J.com, and PRX, the Public Radio Exchange.
Co-hosts: Jonathan Friedmann & Joey Angel-Field
Producer-engineer: Mike Tomren
Sounds Jewish
https://exchange.prx.org/series/32262-sounds-jewish
Some of Andy’s journalism
https://forward.com/authors/andrew-muchin/
https://www.jta.org/author/andrew-muchin
https://jewishjournal.com/author/andrew_muchin/
Amusing Jews Merch Store
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Adat Chaverim – Congregation for Humanistic Judaism, Los Angeles
https://www.humanisticjudaismla.org/
Cool Shul Cultural Community
https://www.coolshul.org/
Atheists United Studios
https://www.atheistsunited.org/au-studios
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24 JUN 2024 · Jerry Sroka is an actor, writer, and producer known for his roles in Godspell, Antz, The Wild Thornberrys, and many more. His latest film is Our (Almost Completely True) Love Story, co-written with and co-starring his wife, Mariette Hartley.
Co-hosts: Jonathan Friedmann & Joey Angel-Field
Producer-Engineer: Mike Tomren
Jerry’s IMDb
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0820293/
Our (Almost Completely True) Love Story - website
https://ouralmostcompletelytruestory.com/
Our (Almost Completely True) Love Story – trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfZhr78gRcI
Amusing Jews Merch
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Subscribe to the Amusing Jews podcast
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Adat Chaverim – Congregation for Humanistic Judaism, Los Angeles
https://www.humanisticjudaismla.org/
Cool Shul Cultural Community
https://www.coolshul.org/
Atheists United Studios
https://www.atheistsunited.org/au-studios
An interview show celebrating Jewish contributors and contributions to American popular culture co-hosted by Jonathan Friedmann and Joey Angel-Field.
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