Smooth E aka Eric Schwartz

One of the nation’s hottest rising stand-up headliners, Eric Schwartz aka Smooth-E, is a comedian, rapper, and MC. His music have appeared on “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno,” BET’s “Comic View,” Showtime’s “White Boyz in the Hood,” Mun2, SiTV and more. This bespectacled rhyme spitter wears multiple hats, writing, producing and performing countless characters in his songs and videos. Pulling off funny, authentic-sounding parodies is a tough nut to crack, but Smooth-E cracks away, appealing across the board from hip-hop heads to soccer moms.

http://smoothe.tv/

Kira Soltanovich (Star of Girls Behaving Badly)

A regular for four seasons on the Oxygen and Nationally syndicated show, Girls Behaving Badly, Kira has also appeared on such shows as Jimmy Kimmel Live, 3rd Rock From The Sun, and The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. She has been a winner, finalist and semi-finalist of several comedy competitions, including Comedy Central’s Laugh Riots, NBC’s Last Comic Standing, The Cape Town International Comedy Festival, the Boston Comedy Festival, and the Seattle International Comedy Festival.

http://www.myspace.com/kiracomedy

Simcha Levenberg

Born in Washington DC and bred in New Jersey, Simcha is our only comedian who also doubles as a Rabbi. A self-dubbed spiritual gangster, he draws out the comedic side of sprituality, G-d, world religion, meditation, drugs as well as the counter-culture, music, and everything written by Tom Robbins. We are happy to welcome Simcha back to the festival to once again press the reset button on all stereotypes: Jewish, Rabbinic or otherwise.

http://simchalevenberg.com/

Robin Reiser

Robin Reiser is a stand-up comic and super model. The modeling career is really going badly so she is now a writer. To keep up appearances she writes in full runway make up and does an outfit change every fifteen minutes. http://www.myspace.com/robinreiser

Lizzy Cooperman

Lizzy Cooperman has been featured on “The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson”, and has been featured on NBC’s “Last Comic Standing”, MTV’s “Most Valuable Players”, and The History Channel’s “History of the Joke: Part One”.

She is a winner of the Laugh Across America Contest and her stand-up comedy has also been featured in “New Faces” and “Dating It” at the Just For Laughs Festival in Montreal. Lizzy was a finalist at The Las Vegas Comedy Festival, and featured in “Best of the Fest” at the New York Underground Comedy Festival. http://www.myspace.com/lizzycooperman

Line-up is subject to change.

Some say they came to show us where we went wrong, to set things straight and make things right. But looking beyond we see that the robot is a master of trickery and guile determined to shatter our expectations of the everyday, to guide us through distraction and turn us all into witnesses, to burn memories in our hearts, memories fused into the mind like the metal on his skin. This creature of fiber optic flesh demands that you challenge the way you see the world today, and forever, for if magic can flicker for even just a few moments, we have proven that its force can spread over your entire being, keeping you forever enchanted in the undiscovered mystery of possibility.

The story continues at life in samsonite…

This is a week where our focus is not on comedy. Wherever we are, we’re still reeling from the international tragedy of loss in Mumbai, and although we feel conflicted about where to go from here, we are beginning to do that thing we do whenever there is pain. We keep moving forward.

Though separate in every way from this week’s events, the Koby Mandell Foundation is an organization devoted to moving on after terror. And there’s a great American comedy tour in town this week that’s raising funds to benefit the Foundation.

Stand Up For Israel presents Comedy for Koby, to benefit the Koby Mandell Foundation, which works on behalf of the families affected by terror.

Featuring top-level Hollywood comics Chris Spencer, Mike Loftus, Modi and Avi Liberman. For more about the comics, see here.

* Wednesday, December 3- Jerusalem- The Maabeda- Derech Hebron 28

* Saturday, December 6- Tel Aviv- ZOA House- Even Gevirol 26, corner of Daniel Frisch

* Sunday, December 7- Raanana- Yad Labanim- 147 Ahuza Street
* Monday, December 8 – Modiin- Modiin Cultural Center – Emek Dotan 49

* Thursday, December 11- Beit Shemesh- Matnas Eshkol Hapayis, Aliyat Hanoar Street, Migdal Hamayim

All shows begin at 8:30 PM with doors opening at 8:00. Individual Tickets are 100 NIS or 75 NIS for soldiers or b’not sherut. Got 10 people or more? Call them about a discount. Buy online, by emailing tickets@djwconsult.com, or calling 054-627-2867.

And tell them you read about it on Jewlicious.

Jewlicious Festival 5.0 | music, arts & culture
Noon, Friday, February 27 — 6PM, Sunday, March 1, 2009
Long Beach, CA

Jewlicious Festival is a three-day gathering of Jewish students & young adults, held at the massive 85,000 sq. ft. Alpert JCC in Long Beach. The Festival features leading Jewish personalities, musicians, artists, and writers from around the world for a world-class concert series, inspiring Shabbat experiences, discussions and workshops. Jewlicious has been described as “an event unlike any other weekend in Jewish history.” Jewlicious unites trend-setters, artists and spirit seekers; Ashkenazim, Sefardim, Persians and Mizrachim; atheists, agnostics, skeptics and believers; designers, activists, jocks, and hipsters. Sound impossible? Don’t worry, we’ve done this before. Tickets are limited and will be on sale this Fall.

Our first student planning event is this Sunday, Sept. 21, at 5:30pm, in Long Beach. All students are invited for this BBQ Dinner event, where you can find sign up for planning teams. Email us for directions.

For sponsorship opportunities, vending, volunteering, media inquiries, music & film submissions, and other requests, please contact our National Festival HQ: JewliciousFestival@gmail.com 562-426-7601 ext 1424

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Produced by Jewlicious, Beach Hillel, and JSS

MARTY BELAFSKY

Discovered by late comedy legend Rodney Dangerfield who called him his “favorite up-and-coming comedian,” Marty Belafsky thrills audiences nationwide with his uniquely energetic and hysterical brand of physical comedy.

Rodney Dangerfield hand-picked Marty to be his opening act at the MGM Las Vegas in 2000. Marty went on to star in two of Rodney’s films, BACK BY MIDNIGHT and THE 4TH TENOR.

Often recognized for his starring role as “Crutchy” in the Disney cult hit musical NEWSIES, as well as for his stint on MTV’s popular sketch show, LYRICISTS LOUNGE, Marty has also appeared in AMERICA’S SWEETHEARTS starring Julia Roberts and Catherine Zeta Jones, MEN IN BLACK 2 with Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones, EVOLUTION, and Christopher Guest’s A MIGHTY WIND and the Chevy Chase starrer, FUNNY MONEY.

Born and raised in Los Angeles, Marty Belafsky began acting professionally in film and TV at age 13. Prior to securing NEWSIES, Marty guest-starred in numerous television shows, including THE WONDER YEARS and NBC’s HULL HIGH. Marty graduated from the Ivy League’’s Brown University with a degree in History. But as proved by his large, loyal fan following across the country, stand-up remains his true passion and calling.