Beyond The Pale: Radio's Home For The Jewish Left Comedian Noam Shuster-Eliassi
Noam Shuster Eliassi is an activist-comedian who writes and performs in Arabic, English and Hebrew (with a touch of Farsi — her mom Iranian born, her dad a Jew in Palestine whose parents fled the Holocaust from Romania), frequently touching upon her experience growing up in “Oasis of Peace” (Neve Shalom/Wahat al-Salam), a mixed community where Palestinians and Jews live together by choice. Her satirical videos have gone viral throughout the Arab world. In 2019, Noam became the first Jewish performer to play the Palestine Comedy Festival. Noam’s one-woman show “Coexistence, My Ass!” was developed at Harvard and received a four-star review at the 2023 Edinburgh Fringe Festival and was just honored at Sundance as the Winner of the World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Freedom of Expression.
Shoshana (@shob) and Rafael (@rafternoon) also talk about the news, including the Jews for Racial and Economic Justice (@jfrejnyc) seder featuring their endorsed Mayoral candidates Zohran Mandani (@zohrankmamdani) and Brad Lander (@brad.lander) with intro by JFREJ staffer Leo Ferguson (@fergusonleo).
See Noam Live
After a sold out debut, Noam Shuster-Eliassi (@noam_joon) and Fouad Dakwar (@notfouad) are bringing their show back to @theasylumnyc on SUNDAY, APRIL 27 at 2:00PM!
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