Yisrael Campbell
Yisrael Campbell (born Christopher Campbell) is a Philadelphia-born Israeli comedian.[1][2][3][4]
Campbell, who is of Irish and Italian descent, grew up Catholic in a Philadelphia suburb.[5] One of his aunts is a Catholic nun. A typical Campbell joke is that his aunt is a nun, "which of course makes Jesus my uncle, allowing for easier parking in Jerusalem." Campbell converted to Judaism with a Reform rabbi, and says that a "spiritual hunger" led him to have a second conversion with a Conservative rabbi. On a four-month visit to Israel in 2000 he decided to have a third conversion and live as an Orthodox Jew.[6]
Campbell and his wife Avital, a Talmud teacher, have four children, including twins, and live in Jerusalem.[6]
The Guardian wrote that "As far as we know, Lenny Bruce never had sex with an Orthodox Jew, but if he had – he would have produced Yisrael Campbell."[7]
In 2006 Campbell appeared with the Israeli-Palestinian Comedy Tour.
Campbell is the subject of a 2008 documentary film, Circumcise Me.
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- ↑ "Wildly Emotional – In a very quiet way," The Guardian, December 17, 2007.
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