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Emily Nussbaum, critic and staff writer for The New Yorker, will moderate a lively conversation with cartoonists Liana Finck, David Ostow, Asher Perlman and Avi Steinberg in the Catskills this weekend. The panel will explore the influence of Jewish humor on American comedy and cartooning and how New Yorker cartoons go from concept to publication. … Hear The New Yorker’s Cartoonists Talk About Jewish Humor in the Catskills this Weekend

On Thursday, August 7, a massive open-air Orthodox Jewish music festival will take over the Bethel Woods Center for the Arts in the Catskills—the iconic site of the original Woodstock festival in August 1969. Yamim Ba’im (“coming days”) will be a four-act concert kicking off at 8pm and headlined by Israeli singer Ishay Ribo with … Ishay Ribo will perform at a Woodstock-like Jewish music festival in the Catskills next month