Forty days before a male child is conceived, according to the Babylonian Talmud, a voice from heaven proclaims the name of the female with whose soul this boy’s soul will eventually unite. This is the concept of bashert, the idea that each of us is foreordained to find a particular mate. In Sir Ari Gold’s one-person show, “Ari Gold’s Bashert,” the word is used to sum up the gay pop star’s attitude toward his career, in which he unabashedly celebrates both his Jewish and homosexual identities.

Call it the Jewish Cape Canaveral. Brooklyn has been the launching pad for so many eminent Jewish Americans — from Arthur Miller to Woody Allen, and from Barbra Streisand to Ruth Bader Ginsburg — that one could hardly imagine America without it. Perhaps this helps to account for the continuing popularity of Jake Ehrenreich’s one-man show, “A Jew Grows in Brooklyn,” which has returned to New York after a record-breaking Off-Broadway run and a North American tour.