(JTA) — Jackie Mason, who died Saturday at 93, didn’t always set out to be a comedian. In fact, it wasn’t until he was 30 that he left behind the Orthodox rabbinate for irreverent open-mic nights. His ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Jackie Mason, a rabbi-turned-comedian whose feisty brand of standup comedy led him to Catskills nightclubs, West Coast talk shows and Broadway stages, has died. He was 93. Mason died ...

Mason, whose feisty brand of stand-up comedy led him from Catskills nightclubs to West Coast talk shows and Broadway stages, died on Saturday at Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan, the celebrity lawyer ...

Let's be honest about it. Let's just be real honest about it. You go to see a comic like Jackie Mason, a political conservative whose offhand and sometimes ill-considered remarks have incurred the ...