Last week Cantor Marcus Feldman led the congregation in a rousing version of Lecha Dodi set to the Gospel melody "Let it Shine" during the Temple's Unity Shabbat celebration.
Enjoy, and Shabbat shalom!
Eitan Levine, a New York based writer and comedian, moves from legacy delis to newer spots, chasing kishka, perfectly cooked potatoes, and that deep, schmaltzy Jewish umami he calls Jewmami. What unfolds is more than a food review. It is a portrait of Crown Heights itself, where cholent is shared, debated, and held as a living piece of community.
In this video, Levine analyzes and tastes the cholent of five Brooklyn restaurants and gives each cholent a rating.
Enjoy!
After a series of theatrical
film shorts, also titled Candid Microphone,
Funt's concept came to television on August 10, 1948, and continued
into the 1970s.
The show involved concealing cameras filming ordinary people being
confronted with unusual situations, sometimes involving trick props,
such as a desk with drawers that pop open when one is closed or a car
with a hidden extra gas tank. When the joke was revealed, victims would
be told the show's catchphrase, "Smile, you're on Candid Camera."
Peter Funt joined the show professionally in 1987 when he became a co-host with his father. During this time the show was being broadcast on the CBS television network. In 1993, Allen Funt had a serious stroke, from which he never fully recovered. This requirehtd Peter to host the show full-time.
The show went through a few revivals. During his time on the show Peter was a producer, host and acted on the show. He also produced and hosted over 200 episodes.
In this Candid Camera classic stunt, Peter poses as a hotel bellhop showing new guests their room, which has been fitted with a few noisy and bright slot machines. Watch their reactions!
Enjoy!
Today we're sharing a performance by Gold at The Laugh Factory in which he takes a deep dive into Jewish holidays and how they tell us when to be happy and when to be sad.
After a distinguished and meritorious dental career, he is shifting his focus to telling and posting jokes on YouTube. We were fortunate to find some of his jokes and we're sharing one of the family-friendly ones with you today.
It's an oldie but goodie that you've probably heard before, but like many of these, we find it interesting to see the same joke told in a slightly different way by a different joke teller.
Here's the setup: It's the middle of the 1800s and this old Jewish merchant has to go to Omaha. And then...
Enjoy!
Brooks, who will turn 100 on June 28, is one of 27 entertainers to win the EGOT, which includes an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony. He received a Kennedy Center Honor in 2009, a Hollywood Walk of Fame star in 2010, the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2013, a British Film Institute Fellowship in 2015, a National Medal of Arts in 2016, a BAFTA Fellowship in 2017, and an Honorary Academy Award in 2024.
If you're a fan of this legendary comedian, actor, writer, producer, and director, this is a must see for your next movie night.
Here's a trailer for the two-part documentary. Enjoy!
Conducted by Moshe Slushitz (משה סלושץ), this special performance took place in Krakow a few weeks ago, blending historic atmosphere with timeless chazzanut, rich harmony, and shared spirit.
Enjoy, and Shabbat shalom!
In this Throwback Thursday special, Claire and Merna perform the Yiddish classic Rumania Rumania in a Yiddish karaoke singalong video with English translation by Henny Kupferstein.
Enjoy!
After a series of theatrical
film shorts, also titled Candid Microphone,
Funt's concept came to television on August 10, 1948, and continued
into the 1970s.
The show involved concealing cameras filming ordinary people being
confronted with unusual situations, sometimes involving trick props,
such as a desk with drawers that pop open when one is closed or a car
with a hidden extra gas tank. When the joke was revealed, victims would
be told the show's catchphrase, "Smile, you're on Candid Camera."
Peter Funt joined the show professionally in 1987 when he became a co-host with his father. During this time the show was being broadcast on the CBS television network. In 1993, Allen Funt had a serious stroke, from which he never fully recovered. This required Peter to host the show full-time.
The show went through a few revivals. During his time on the show Peter was a producer, host and acted on the show. He also produced and hosted over 200 episodes.
In this Candid Camera classic stunt set in a Los Angeles airport car rental office, a customer looking for her red rental car found a whole fleet of identical cars whose trunks all opened when she pressed the button on her key.
Enjoy
Having gained a massive following on social media, Sponder most recently finished up a sold-out tour in Europe with his new show "Self Loving Jew".
Last year Sponder toured the USA with shows in Boston, Philadelphia, and Fort Lauderdale.
In this video clip from a recent performance, Sponder spoofs British pronunciation of the English language.
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Rabbi Jacobson, an American Chabad rabbi from Monsey, New York, is one of the most sought after speakers in the Jewish world today, lecturing to Jewish and non-Jewish audiences on six continents and in forty states, and serving as teacher and mentor to thousands across the globe.
He is considered to be one of the most successful, passionate and mesmerizing communicators of Judaism today, culling his ideas from the entire spectrum of Jewish thought and making them relevant to contemporary audiences.
He served as editor-in-chief of the Algemeiner Journal, and as a choizer (transcriber) for Lubavitcher Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneerson.
He also loves to tell jokes, and here's the setup: This Jewish father decides to send his child to a Christian prep school. David comes home from the first day at school. And then...
Enjoy!
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Eishet Chayil is a twenty-two verse poem with which King Solomon concludes the book of Proverbs (Proverbs 31). The poem has an acrostic arrangement in which the verses begin with the letters of the Hebrew alphabet in regular order. The poem describes the woman of valor as one who are is energetic, righteous, and capable.
In this heartfelt version by Dor Zamir, we bring you a unique melody that blends tradition with emotion.
The transliterated Hebrew text and English translation appear below the video.
Enjoy, and Shabbat shalom!
It is the third (and final live-action) installment in the Night at the Museum film series, a sequel to Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (2009), and the final installment in the original trilogy.
The film stars Ben Stiller in the lead role, Robin Williams, Owen Wilson, Dan Stevens and Ben Kingsley as the Pharaoh.
In the film, security guard Larry Daley must travel to London to return the Tablet of Ahkmenrah, an Egyptian artifact which causes the exhibits to come to life, before the magic disappears.
In an encounter with the Pharaoh Ben Stiller has a funny exchange with Ben Kingsley in which they make oblique references to the Jewish enslavement in Egypt, the Exodus, and the Passover Seder.
Enjoy!
The show involved concealed cameras filming ordinary people being confronted with unusual situations, sometimes involving trick props, such as a desk with drawers that pop open when one is closed or a car with a hidden extra gas tank. When the joke was revealed, victims were told the show's catchphrase, "Smile, you're on Candid Camera." The catchphrase became a song with music and lyrics by Sid Ramin.
Today we're sharing a classic episode from 1962 in which members of the Candid Camera crew visited a diner and started eating a particularly juicy grapefruit. Watch as individuals react to an unexpected shower of juice, displaying a range of reactions. Some skillfully dodge the spray, while others are less fortunate.
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Shahar is an entertainer who paved his way through the best entertainment programs in Israel: Eretz Nehederet, Zahirut TV, TV at its best, Laughter from Work, Limited Edition, Fun Night, Express Hearts and more.
In this performance before a live audience, Shahar delivers a stand-up routine filled with humorous observations about making aliyah, Israel's left-wing and right-wing split, grapefruit, foot fungus, and anti-semitism. Yes, it's quite a range of topics, but such is the nature of standup comedy, especially in Israel.
Enjoy!
After a distinguished and meritorious dental career, he is shifting his focus to telling and posting jokes on YouTube. We were fortunate to find some of his jokes and we're sharing one of the family-friendly ones with you today.
Here's the setup: A woman is about to hit a ball on a driving range, when she notices the guy next to her is hitting the ball in the wrong direction. And then...
Enjoy!
In this video they try to outdo each other with funny and outrageous claims that purport to show how two Israelis engage in one upmanship, e.g. "You know the Dead Sea? I killed it." "You know the Dead Sea Scrolls? I found it." "I wrote them."
Enjoy!
The Triola Choir meets weekly in Ra'anana and sings the beautiful songs of Israeli music and vocal works from around the world in special and moving arrangements.
Oseh shalom bimromav" is a Hebrew phrase from a prayer that means "He who makes peace in the high heavens". It is a blessing that asks that God may make peace for us and all of Israel, ending with the word "Amen". This phrase is found at the end of daily prayers, such as the Amidah and the Mourner's Kaddish, and expresses a longing for peace.
Enjoy, and Shabbat shalom!
Gore, born Lesley Sue Goldstein, was an American singer, songwriter, actress, and activist. At the age of 16, she recorded the pop hit "It's My Party", a US number one in 1963. She followed it up with ten further Billboard top 40 hits including "Judy's Turn to Cry" and "You Don't Own Me".
Gore
recorded composer Marvin Hamlisch's first hit composition, "Sunshine,
Lollipops and Rainbows", on May 21, 1963, while "It's My Party" was
climbing the charts.
Gore later worked as an actress and television personality. She composed songs with her brother Michael Gore for the 1980 film Fame, for which he won an Academy Award.
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Jews have pioneered the premium ice cream craze for 40 years, from Haagen Dazs to Ben & Jerry's and beyond. Irv Robbins, Burt Baskin, Reuben and Rose Mattus, Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, and Josh Hochshuler all were pioneers in development of these delicious treats.
Their stories were told in an article in The Tablet by Joan Nathan in 2012.
Enjoy!
After a distinguished and meritorious dental career, he is shifting his focus to telling and posting jokes on YouTube. We were fortunate to find some of his jokes and we're sharing one of the family-friendly ones with you today. Yes, we know it's a real oldie, but we think it's still a goodie, and deserves a place in every Jewish joke teller's repertoire.
Here's
the setup: It was a cold, wintry, stormy day when two Orthodox Jews are looking for a place to take shelter. The closest place was a Catholic church. So they go into the church, sit in the very back, and then...
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His college degrees were earned in Music Education at the Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College as well as doctoral studies in Jewish Education and Administration at Yeshiva University.
In this video David sings Eye of the Rebbe, a parody of the Rocky song Eye of the Tiger with music by Survivor and his own original lyrics.
Eye of the Tiger was written by Frankie Sullivan and Jim Peterik as the theme song for the 1982 film Rocky III and released that May as a single from Survivor's third album, Eye of the Tiger. The song combines hard rock with a post-disco beat.
The song reached number one on the charts of many countries. In the US, it was number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart for six weeks, spent 15 consecutive weeks in the top 10, and was the second-bestselling single of 1982. It was certified platinum in August 1982, for sales of two million copies.
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Like many of the Shabbat liturgical poems, it can be sung to a variety of melodies. Today we're sharing a version in the Judeo-Spanish Ladino dialect, as sung recently by Cantor Risa Wallach of Temple Beth-El in Hillsborough, Somerset County, New Jersey.
Enjoy, and Shabbat shalom!
Carmiya Weinraub is a DC-based comedian and comedy coach whose jokes
reveal what life is like being a mom of 5 kids (exhausting) and being an
observant Jew (exhausting, and kind of yummy). She has performed at
Standup NY, the DC Comedy Loft, and the Interfaith Comedy College Tour. She is a regular at local clubs in DC and Maryland.
Carmiya has been featured on NPR and the Washington Jewish Week for creating Interfaith Comedy, a nationally-touring show with comedians of different religions that aims to reduce prejudice and dispel myths.
She
has worked as a teacher, social worker, group facilitator,
vegetable-deliverer, and errand-avoider, all while raising 5 children.
In this video, Carmiya tells a comedy club audience why she doesn't want to talk to you at the grocery store.
Enjoy!
After a series of theatrical
film shorts, also titled Candid Microphone,
Funt's concept came to television on August 10, 1948, and continued
into the 1970s.
The show involved concealing cameras filming ordinary people being
confronted with unusual situations, sometimes involving trick props,
such as a desk with drawers that pop open when one is closed or a car
with a hidden extra gas tank. When the joke was revealed, victims would
be told the show's catchphrase, "Smile, you're on Candid Camera."
Peter Funt joined the show professionally in 1987 when he became a co-host with his father. During this time the show was being broadcast on the CBS television network. In 1993, Allen Funt had a serious stroke, from which he never fully recovered. This required Peter to host the show full-time.
The show went through a few revivals. During his time on the show Peter was a producer, host and acted on the show. He also produced and hosted over 200 episodes.
Do you remember the universal panic on New Years Eve 1999 as the calendar was about to turn to 2000? The whole world was on edge waiting to see if the Y2000 computer virus was going to wreak havoc with all computer programs. The Candid Camera crew took advantage of this situation by having a staff member pose as a company doctor and offering to vaccinate employees to prevent them from catching the virus. Watch them roll up their sleeves in anticipation.
Enjoy!
Just as we have followed the songs Hava Nagila, Adon Olam, Hevenu Shalom Aleichem, and Abanibi as they took different forms as interpreted by a wide variety of singers, musicians, and dancers, we're continuing the series today that we started back in 2012, sharing our 29th version of this universal courting and love song.
This version is sung by ApiChorus, Harvard's premier Jewish a Cappella Group and an affiliated student organization of Harvard Hillel. Founded in 2023, ApiChorus is a coed group comprised of current students at Harvard University. They sing a diverse repertoire of Hebrew and English classics, represent a broad range of Jewish backgrounds, and perform at venues locally in Cambridge as well as in concerts across the globe.
Enjoy!
Marshal (Mickey) Greenblatt received degrees from Columbia (BA and BS in Flight Sciences), a DC from Von Karman Institute (1963) and his PhD from Princeton in Aerospace Sciences. He worked as a researcher for NASA and the Naval Research Laboratory.
With four other scientists, he founded Fusion Systems Corporation, which invented microwave-powered UV lamps for drying coatings. He founded and served on the boards of technology companies and is active in volunteer work. He served on the executive committee of the Jewish Council for the Aging of Greater Washington for many years.
Mickey also loves Jewish jokes and sent us this one. Here's the setup: A blonde decided she needed to make some money. She was going to go out and hire herself out as a handywoman. She went knocking door to door. She got to one house and she said "Are there any odd jobs you'd like me to do around the house?" And then...
Enjoy!
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