Amusing Jews

Avi Decter is managing partner of History Now and the author most recently of Exploring American Jewish History through 50 Historic Treasures. He has served as director of the Museum of American Jewish History and the Jewish Museum of Maryland, head of education at the H.F. DuPont Museum and Gardens, and special assistant to the director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History.
 
Co-hosts: Jonathan Friedmann & Joey Angel-Field
 
Producer-engineer: Mike Tomren
 
Exploring American Jewish History
https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781538115626/Exploring-American-Jewish-History-through-50-Historic-Treasures
 
Avi’s Museum Expert page
https://www.museumexpert.org/team/avi-decter
 
Avi on Jewish Museums
https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/jewish-museums/
 
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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

Phil Baron is a voice actor, singer, and songwriter best known as the voice of Teddy Ruxpin. He also voiced Piglet on the 1980s Disney Channel series Welcome to Pooh Corner.
 
Co-hosts: Jonathan Friedmann & Joey Angel-Field
 
Producer-engineer: Mike Tomren
 
Phil’s IMDb
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0056295/
 
Phil’s Teddy Ruxpin Wiki
https://teddyruxpin.fandom.com/wiki/Phil_Baron
 
Teddy Ruxpin Commercials
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dkr_4RICL9M
 
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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

Nolan Gasser, a composer, pianist, and musicologist, is the architect of Pandora Radio’s Music Genome Project. He’s also the author of Why You Like It: The Science & Culture of Musical Taste.
 
Co-hosts: Jonathan Friedmann & Joey Angel-Field
 
Producer-engineer: Mike Tomren
 
Nolan’s website
https://www.nolangasser.com/
 
Why You Like It (book page)
https://www.whyyoulikeit.com/
 
Nolan’s TEDx Talk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3wzSjKKvf4
 
Nolan’s NASA music (GLAST Prelude)
https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov//10251
 
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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

Gabrielle Newman is a cantor and emo aficionado. Her cantorial thesis is titled, “Say Anything: The Significance of the Jewish Voice in Contemporary Mainstream Music.”
Co-hosts: Jonathan Friedmann & Joey Angel-Field
 
Producer-engineer: Mike Tomren
 
Say Anything, “Hebrews”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Qq-LoFCjEU
 
Say Anything, “Alive With the Glory of Love”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZGRzdywXqs
 
Say Anything, “Died a Jew”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPH9ClhHPkk
 
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https://www.humanisticjudaismla.org/
 
Jewish Museum of the American West
https://www.jmaw.org/
 
Atheists United Studios
https://www.atheistsunited.org/au-studios

Eli Valley is a writer and cartoonist whose work has been featured in The Nation, The New Republic, The Village Voice, Jewish Currents, The Guardian, The Daily Beast, and elsewhere. He is the author of the critically acclaimed book, Diaspora Boy: Comics on Crisis in America and Israel, and the forthcoming book, Museum of Degenerates: Portraits of the American Grotesque.
 
Co-hosts: Jonathan Friedmann & Joey Angel-Field
 
Producer-engineer: Mike Tomren
 
Eli’s website
https://www.elivalley.com/
 
Eli’s Patreon
https://www.patreon.com/elivalley
 
Museum of Degenerates
https://orbooks.com/catalog/museum-of-degenerates/
 
VICE News segment
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0U7Kh7ke_XA
 
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https://www.humanisticjudaismla.org/
 
Jewish Museum of the American West
https://www.jmaw.org/
 
Atheists United Studios
https://www.atheistsunited.org/au-studios

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
 
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https://www.humanisticjudaismla.org/
 
Jewish Museum of the American West
https://www.jmaw.org/
 
Atheists United Studios
https://www.atheistsunited.org/au-studios

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
 
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Jewish Museum of the American West
https://www.jmaw.org/
 
Atheists United Studios
https://www.atheistsunited.org/au-studios

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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Jewish Museum of the American West
https://www.jmaw.org/
 
Atheists United Studios
https://www.atheistsunited.org/au-studios

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
 
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Jewish Museum of the American West
https://www.jmaw.org/
 
Atheists United Studios
https://www.atheistsunited.org/au-studios

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/
 
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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