As the year concludes, the New York Jewish Week remembers 13 Jewish New Yorkers who died in 2025. Among them are people who ...

As the year concludes, the New York Jewish Week remembers 13 Jewish New Yorkers who died in 2025. Among them are people who ...

Jane Goodall needed to lose her fear of them; they had to lose theirs of her. Bananas were the great lure that encouraged contact and understanding.

Read a conversation with Bobby about the show and Tom Lehrer’s comedy legacy. How did you initially discover the work of Tom Lehrer? I was introduced to Tom Lehrer at such a young age that I cannot ...

When most people think of novelty songs, they think of funny tunes with light lyrics. Classics like “The Purple People Eater,” “They’re Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa!” “The Streak,” and pretty much ...

Recently I noted and lamented the passing of a funny math guy — my kind of person and idol. You may never have heard of him or understood him if you knew his work. His humor weapon of choice was ...

Tom Lehrer, the American singer-songwriter who became well known for his biting and satirical songs on social and political topics in the 1960s, died at the age of 97 last month at his home in ...

The color palette at the Walmart AMP hit me so hard it knocked me out. And when I came to, I wasn’t seeing cartoon stars or Tweety birds circling around my head — I was seeing palm trees, pua aloalo ...

Looking back, I’m not sure what our parents must have thought as they sat in the audience. Granted, they’d heard some pretty weird stuff from the Longmont High School choirs before. But there’s weird ...

It seems like each week we learn of the passing of noteworthy people who for one reason or another became part of the national consciousness. I sometimes recognize the names and on other occasions do ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Tom Lehrer, the popular song satirist who lampooned marriage, politics, racism and the Cold War, then largely abandoned his music career to return to teaching math at Harvard and ...