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
 
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

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#!/
 
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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

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
https://www.amusingjews.com/merch#!/
 
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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

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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https://www.amusingjews.com/merch#!/
 
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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

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
https://www.amusingjews.com/merch#!/
 
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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

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#!/
 
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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

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#!/
 
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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

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
 
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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

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
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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

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