Despite the role of Jews in comedy in America, there tend to be very few members of the Tribe hosting late-night talk shows. So kudos to Conan O’Brien for taking his show on the road, or rather, on an El-Al flight; Conan has come to Israel.

“Conan Without Borders” is an ongoing show special; O’Brien created an episode earlier this year where he visited and produced his show in Mexico. And now, he’s in the Holy Land, eating the food, seeing the sites, and meeting, God help us, Israelis.

Jewcy is on a summer residency! To read this piece, and our others for July and August 2017, go to our big sister site, Tablet Magazine!

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• Should we care that Debbie Wasserman Schultz got glammed up for Vogue?

• The Homeland peeps have a new show for CBS about an FBI agent. We hope her name is Mary Cathison.

• Sacha Baron Cohen’s next film project is titled The Lesbian.

• A Berkeley professor stirs trouble in Germany.

• Paul Rudd plays a born-again protagonist in the new play Grace.

• J.J. Abrams premiered some of his new movie, Star Trek Into Darkness, on Conan last night:

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• Lena Dunham forgot her pants again. Instead, she got a $1 million book deal.

• Brooklyn native Barbra Streisand says playing at the Barclays Center is a homecoming for her.

• Being a Jew in China means everyone assumes you’re good with money.

• Jewish Jocks, a new book edited by Frank Foer and friend-of-Jewcy Marc Tracy, was deemed ‘highbrow brilliant’ by the New York Magazine approval matrix.

• The world came full circle when Jerry Seinfeld wrote to the New York Times to criticize an opinion column hating on the word ‘really.’

• Rashida Jones impersonates a Jewish grandmother and does a German accent on Conan:

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• Speaking of Citi Field, Mike Bloomberg high fives Mr. Met in the best GIF we’ve seen all week.

• New Girl’s Max Greenfield is officially a young Paul Rudd—at least in this upcoming rom-com.

• Rachel Uchitel, formerly known as Tiger Woods’ mistress number one, had a baby.

• Liam Neeson says he gets mistaken for Ralph Fiennes all the time. Must be that whole Schindler’s List thing.

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“I’m curious,” Conan says, “Is it that bad? Is dating in your 20s that bad?”
“It’s pretty fucking bad,” she responds. “In my experience, I haven’t found it to be particularly enjoyable.”

The kicker: “90 percent of the time when I go on dates,” Mamet says, “I find myself thinking, ‘I could be reading my book instead.'”

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