Yoel Lebowits
| Yoel Lebovits | |
|---|---|
| Born |
July , 1979 Harris, New York, U.S. |
| Occupation | actor, comedian, singer |
| Years active | 1997–present |
| Website | http://www.badchen.com/ |
Yoel "Yoely" Lebovits (יואל לעבאוויטש) is an American Hasidic entertainer, comedian, singer, and actor. Lebovits is the son of the Nikolsburger Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yechiel Mechel Lebovits, and lives in Monsey, New York. He is a popular figure in Hasidic Jewish communities, specifically the Yiddish-speaking communities. Yoel is known to be the first baby named after the Late Satmar Rebbe, Reb Joel Teitelbaum 1887-1979.
Lebovits started as a badchen in 1997, performing Comedy at friends' weddings. He gained popularity after acting the comedic role in the Yiddish play "Hamaloch Hagoel" in 1998.
He became known as the "Pester Rebbe" because of his talent of imitating the Hungarian Language, implying that he is from Budapest.
In 1999 Lebovits debuted his first comedy album "Purim Y2K" (produced by Yochi Briskman). This was followed by "Purim Station" in 2004.
As his popularity grew, Lebovits was hired to entertain at parties, dinners, Weddings and Sheva Brochos in the USA, Europe, Africa and Israel.
Lebovits has performed with the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, Lipa Schmeltzer, Mordechai ben David and Avraham Fried among others in various places as well as "The Prudential Center" in New Jersey.
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