gad elmaleh Archives – Jewish Journal

What’s Happening: ‘Judaism In an Age of Truthiness,’ Gad Elmaleh

Ryan Torok November 8, 2018

What’s Happening in Jewish L.A. Oct. 27-Nov. 2

Ryan Torok October 27, 2017

Gad Elmaleh struggles with U.S. Customs and Border Patrol (w/ Ron Livingston)

Jewish Journal May 11, 2017

Moving and Shaking: Yom HaAtzmaut, Yom HaZikaron and Foster Mother’s Day

Ryan Torok May 19, 2016

The May 11 Yom HaAtzmaut reception held by Israel’s consulate in Los Angeles took on a bittersweet air — not just because it followed Yom HaZikaron, Israel’s Remembrance Day, but also because it was a de facto goodbye party for Consul General David Siegel.

Can French comedian Gad Elmaleh make America laugh — in English?

David Suissa May 4, 2016

In a small living room in Montreal on a quiet Shabbat afternoon in around 1990, about a decade before Gad Elmaleh became the biggest comedian in France and 25 years before he made his improbable move to America, I was hanging with him and a few friends, trying not to talk about the weekly Torah portion.