Let There Be Laughter: A New Jewish Humor Exhibition at the Museum of the Jewish People in Tel Aviv

Let There be Laughter is the name of a special exhibit at Beit Hatfutsot (Museum of the Jewish People) in Tel Aviv. We spent a few hours there on Sunday and found it hard to leave

The exhibit, which fills a few large rooms in the museum, pays tribute to Jewish humor around the world with particular focus on comedy in America and in Israel.Equal time and space is given to the great comedians, films, and TV shows of Israel and America.

Film clips of classic Israeli and American movies are scattered throughout the exhibit. Notable among them are the Seinfeld TV series, Woody Allen in Annie Hall, Jerry Lewis as The Bellboy, Keeping the Faith, the comedy skits of Hagashash Hahiver, Ephraim Kishon's classic comedy The Policeman, TV news satire Eretz Nehederet, and the hilarious, irreverent series The Jews are Coming.

Right in the middle of the exhibit is a replica of the darkened room of a comedy club, complete with small tables and chairs and a stage on which realistic holograms of Israeli comedians deliver their standup routines with a monitor to the side that displays running subtitles in Hebrew and English.

It's worth a visit on your next trip to Israel. Tickets for the whole museum experience, including the Jewish humor exhibit, are $14 ($7 for seniors.)

Join us for a quick video tour of the exhibit by curator Asaf Galay as shown on Arutz Sheva TV.

Enjoy!

A SPECIAL NOTE FOR NEW EMAIL SUBSCRIBERS:  THE VIDEO MAY NOT BE VIEWABLE DIRECTLY FROM THE EMAIL THAT YOU GET EACH DAY ON SOME COMPUTERS AND TABLETS.  YOU MUST CLICK ON THE TITLE AT THE TOP OF THE EMAIL TO REACH THE JEWISH HUMOR CENTRAL WEBSITE, FROM WHICH YOU CLICK ON THE PLAY BUTTON IN THE VIDEO IMAGE TO START THE VIDEO.