The Borscht Belt Museum’s Comedy Club monthly standup comedy series returns on Jan. 17-18 with a pair of events headlined by ...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — What’s a Borscht Belt joke? Comedy historian Lenny Dave shares this classic told by the famous Catskills entertainer Myron Cohen. A Jewish grandmother is taking her grandson on ...

If there’s one joke that might sum up the Catskills experience — the buckle on the Borscht comedy Belt — it’s the oldie but goodie that dates back nearly 100 years, attributed to cartoonist Harry ...

ELLENVILLE, N.Y. — A new stand-up comedy series will begin in Ellenville, a collaboration between the New York Comedy Club and the Borscht Belt Museum. The series, the “Borscht Belt Comedy Club,” will ...

Freddie Roman, a fixture on the Borscht Belt comedy scene in the Catskill Mountains of New York, died Saturday. He was 85. Roman died in a hospital in Boynton Beach, Florida, after suffering a heart ...

The July 29 festival in Ulster County will honor the legacy of the “Jewish Alps” and its influence on American culture. (New York Jewish Week) — After a dozen-plus years in the making, the Catskills ...