{"id":92338,"date":"2026-04-21T11:52:41","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T16:52:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/?p=92338"},"modified":"2026-04-22T03:10:44","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T08:10:44","slug":"israeli-comedian-modi-coming-to-nola-for-first-time-at-the-orpheum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/israeli-comedian-modi-coming-to-nola-for-first-time-at-the-orpheum\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli comedian Modi coming to NOLA for first time at the Orpheum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Modi, who like Madonna and Cher, goes by one just one name is&nbsp; coming to New Orleans for the first time. Modi is the professional name of Modi Rosenfeld, an Israeli-American stand up comic and comedian, who was born in Tel Aviv and emigrated to the United States at seven years of age.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_92339\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Modi_NOLA.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-92339\" class=\"wp-image-92339 size-medium lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Modi_NOLA-300x234.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"234\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Modi_NOLA-300x234.png 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Modi_NOLA-1024x798.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Modi_NOLA-768x598.png 768w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Modi_NOLA.png 1073w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/234;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-92339\" class=\"wp-image-92339 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Modi_NOLA-300x234.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"234\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Modi_NOLA-300x234.png 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Modi_NOLA-1024x798.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Modi_NOLA-768x598.png 768w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Modi_NOLA.png 1073w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-92339\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Modi, Israeli-American comedian and stand-up comic. (Courtesy Birkur Cholim)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Modi will be appearing for the first time in New Orleans on May 18 at&nbsp; the Orpheum Theater, 129 Roosevelt Way.<\/p>\n<p>He identifies as both Israeli and American, having grown up in a Jewish household where only Hebrew was spoken. Following a conventional childhood and graduation from college, he went to work for Merrill Lynch as a broker on Wall Street. He worked there for six years from 1993 -1999 until he made his stage debut and decided to concentrate on a career in show business instead.<\/p>\n<p>Since embarking on his stand-up career, he has made a name for himself in the Orthodox Jewish world, where he regularly performs.<\/p>\n<p>The New Orleans event is a fundraiser for Bikur Cholim, a charitable organization that provides comfort for Jewish patients and their families during illness or treatment.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets are available through Ticketmaster for $43 each <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ticketmaster.com\/event\/1B00646811591063\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>. A select group of 12 tickets on the front row is available for $1025 each, which includes a meet and greet with Modi after the show.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For more information, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ticketmaster.com\/event\/1B00646811591063\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"Email\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Israeli%20comedian%20Modi%20coming%20to%20NOLA%20for%20first%20time%20at%20the%20Orpheum\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":92339,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[8790,8795,8637,10114,181],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92338"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92338"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92340,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92338\/revisions\/92340"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}