Ayelet the Kosher Komic

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Ayelet Newman
Born
Ayelet Ben Hur

Long Island, New York
NationalityAmerican
Occupation Stand-up comedian
Website kosherkomedy.com

Ayelet Newman, known by the stage name Ayelet the Kosher Komic, [1] is an Orthodox Jewish female stand-up comedian. She discontinued her acting career and began performing "kosher comedy" to women-only audiences after becoming a baalas teshuva (embracing Orthodox Judaism) in the early 2000s. [2] In 2003 she moved to Jerusalem. [3] She performs both in Israel and internationally. [4]

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Biography

Born Ayelet Ben Hur, [5] [6] she grew up in a secular Jewish family in Long Island, New York. [2] After high school, she moved to Los Angeles to audition for roles in TV and film. Among her acting credits are an HBO series, a Lifetime TV movie, and a bit part in the 2003 film The Hebrew Hammer . [2] [3] [6] She also performed stand-up routines on Comedy Central and at the New York Comedy Club and The Improv. [3]

Her career took a 180-degree turn when she began attending Torah classes at the Los Angeles branch of Aish HaTorah, an Orthodox Jewish outreach organization. As she embraced a Torah-observant lifestyle, she quit acting and began performing what she calls "kosher comedy" – stand-up routines that are devoid of off-color humor, vulgar references, cursing, and personal attacks, but that instead focus on the humor in daily life. [7] [2] [8] She also stopped performing in front of men, but plays to female audiences exclusively. [7] [2]

Welcome to Glatt Kosher Airlines. Our pilot and co-pilot will be taking time to pray Mincha and Maariv [the afternoon and evening prayers]. You're asked to pray with extra devotion at this time since no one will be flying the airplane.

Ayelet the Kosher Komic, "Glatt Kosher Airlines" [5]

Her hour-long show for Orthodox women and seminary girls includes stand-up routines on topics such as modesty, dating, dieting, kosher laws, Jewish prayer, motherhood, and malapropisms in Hebrew. [3] [9] [10] While most of the show is rehearsed, Ayelet does some improvisation. [4] Her signature routine is a pre-flight safety briefing on the fictional "Glatt Kosher Airlines", in which passengers receive emergency instructions such as: "Should there be, God forbid, a rapid change in cabin pressure, a book of psalms will fall from the panel above your head". [7] "Please say your own tehillim [psalms] prior to assisting the small child, elderly passenger or recent baal teshuvah seated next to you". [2]

She has produced the comic audio CDs It's a Frum Frum Life and Life in Israel. [1]

Personal

Since she started her comedy career in the Orthodox Jewish world as a single woman, Ayelet was reluctant to reveal her age to media sources lest it limit her marriage opportunities. [7] She has since married a full-time kollel student [4] and is the mother of 9 . [11]

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