Yoel Lebowits

Yoely Lebowits (יואל לעבאוויטש ) is an American Hasidic entertainer, comedian, singer, and actor.

Comedic career

Yoely Lebowits, or Pester Rebbe as some call him, is a popular figure in Hasidic Jewish communities. He lives in Monsey, New York. He got the name Pester Rebbe because of his talent of imitating the Hungarian Language, implying that he is from Budapest.

Lebowits started being a Badchen in 1997, by performing Comedy at his friends' weddings, then quickly became popular after acting the comedic role in the Yiddish play "Hamaloch Hagoel" in 1998.

In 1999 Lebowits debuted his first comedy album "Purim Y2K" with producer Yochi Briskman, that was followed by "Purim Station" in 2004. The album featured Yoely Lebowits and veteran comedian Yankel Miller.

What makes Yoely unique is his musical singing talent, which put him on stage with conteporary Jewish singers; MBD, Lipa Schmeltzer, Avraham Fried, Cantor Moshe schulhoff and many more.

As his popularity soared, Lebowits was hired to entertain at thousands of parties, dinners, Weddings and Sheva Brochos across USA, Europe, and Israel.

Inspiring Side

While he regularly brings the house down and splits everyones sides laughing, Lebowits is gaining fans for his inspiring songs as well.

He keeps his guitar in the trunk of his car, so it is always at hand for him to cheer up anyone. He infuses words of wisdom and encourgement in his act, like his alter ego, Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach.

Yoel Lebowits sings at hospitals, or for the homebound as well as for the people with special needs.

Recent Activity

Recently Lebovits was featured on the cover of Yiddish Popular magazine of "Der Blick" where he was interviewd.

According to sources close to Lipa Schmeltzer, Lebovits was supposed to be the surprise guest at "the big event" concert together with Chasidic stars Lipa Schmeltzer and Shloimy gertner on March 9th, at the Madison Square Garden, that got canceled after a ban signed by 33 Rabbis which prompted Schmeltzer to back out of the show.

He performed with fellow badchen R' Yankel Miller which happens to be a relative of his, as well as with other Badchonim.

A Google clip of Yoely and Comedian Hilly Hill son of Steven Hill from the TV series "Law & Order" circulated, and received over 20,000 hits in the course of just three weeks for which it was on.

He costarred on a Debut Concert with new Hasidic star Shloimy Gertner on the Borscht Belt, in the Raleigh Hotel in South Fallsburg, NY.

Interesting Facts

* He is a son of the Nikolsburger Rebbe
* He is a descendent of Rebbe Shmelke of Nikolsburg and the Baal Shem Tov founder of the Hasidic movement.
* He is from the first five babies named after the grand rabbi of Satmar, Rabbi Yoel Teitelbaum ZT"L.

External links

* [http://www.badchen.com Yoel's Official website]
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXEiqyAVYi8 Together with Shloimy Gertner in Concert]
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAjeffLSCOk Yoely at Chesed Shel Emes Sheva Brochos]
* [http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5710766682445491987 A clip of Yoel's wedding]
* [http://yi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%99%D7%95%D7%90%D7%9C_%D7%9C%D7%A2%D7%91%D7%90%D7%B0%D7%99%D7%98%D7%A9 Yoel's Yiddish bio]
* [http://shirulo.com/articles_heb.asp?id=557 Yoel and shloime gertner in Costa Blanca, Spain]
* [http://www.sanzusa.info/pic/102061.jpgYoily Lebovits and Velvel Goldstein, Chatzatzke Rebbe performing in Sanz Klauzenberg]