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It’s not nearly as bad as those Hamas cartoons—one of which features an Israeli soldier strafing Palestinian children—but a children’s television show broadcast by the Palestinian Authority shows a woman telling Israeli Arab children that the “program” is for them, too, because they live in “Occupied Palestine.” There’s also a big blue guy: not sure ...

Jon Stewart weighs in on Hamas’s new children’s television show, A Special Mission—the one in which Fatah policeman Bahlul is a satrap to an Israeli soldier with long sidecurls and a penchant for machine-gunning Palestinian children and drinking their blood.
The clip is worth watching, particularly for Stewart’s own cartoon, “Jewby Doo.” And also for this ...

For many immigrants and their children in the era of mass Jewish emigration from Eastern Europe, the ubiquitous Yiddish accent was a source of shame and a barrier to upward mobility. For the cartoonist and animator Milt Gross, that accent was the funniest thing he had ever heard.
In his cartoons, Gross, born in 1895 to ...

I guess I just wondered why he did this project. >>

Television’s small pantheon of animated Jewish characters just got a bit bigger: On Sunday night’s episode, entitled “Family Goy,” Lois Griffin, the matriarch on Seth MacFarlane’s Fox hit Family Guy, learned that she was Jewish. She should have seen it coming: her maternal grandmother’s maiden name, her mother tells her in one of the episode’s ...

This weekend, I’m looking forward to seeing G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra. For most, it may be just a silly action flick. But for me, it’s a strange bit of nostalgia, a memento from my childhood days, when cartoons helped make sense of the world around me.
I grew up in Israel, which meant that, ...

Silver Jews frontman David Berman elicited indie tears earlier this year when he announced he was quitting his band to pursue other endeavors. He’d made his name as a member of Pavement; in the Silver Jews, he was known for literary, angst-ridden lyrics. In recent years, he’s overcome addiction, at least in part by embracing ...

2009 · 4 minutes
Aboard Noah’s ark, some of God’s creatures won’t get with the program.
Written by Stephen Levinson and Joel Moss Levinson. Animation by Ed Mundy. Illustration by Mike Herrod. Music by Craig Hillelson. Sound engineering by Jesse Novak. Featuring the voices of Bob Balaban, Aaron Bleyaert, Jonathan Katz, Jess Lane, Jesse Novak, ...

2008 · 5 minutes
After forty years in the desert, Moses has had enough.
Coming in December: Episode IV.
Written by Stephen Levinson and Joel Moss Levinson. Animation by Ed Mundy. Illustration by Mike Herrod. Music by Craig Hillelson. Sound engineering by Jesse Novak. Featuring the voices of Shek Baker, Todd Barry, Joe DeRosa, Jonathan ...

Two panels from Rutu Modan’s “Jamilti”
“Reality is more grotesque and strange than anything you can invent,” says the Israeli cartoonist Rutu Modan. “Sometimes life is too much, you have to tone it down to make art.” Modan’s own work has evolved over the past fifteen years from rather strange and grotesque fables into some ...