(JTA) — “It was very peculiar,” said Gilbert Gottfried, 62 ... in a synagogue would be at someone else’s bar mitzvah or a funeral,” he said. “I didn’t reject Judaism, I was raised ...

(JTA) — Gilbert Gottfried, the comic with a grating persona whose boundary testing got him canceled more than once, has died. His family announced Gottfried’s passing “after a long illness ...