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Our posts include jokes, satire, books, music, films, videos, food, Unbelievable But True, and In the News. Some are new, and some are classics. We post every morning, Sunday through Friday. Enjoy!
With most TV channels covering the news coming daily out of Washington, you may not have noticed that over the weekend, Amazon Prime has unloaded another full season of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. It's a breath of fresh air that takes us back to simpler times. Eight hour-long episodes of the highly anticipated third season of the widely acclaimed portrayal of a Jewish family in New York in the 1950s and 1960s is now streaming on Amazon Prime. All of the main characters are back, and we get to relive Jewish life in New York 60 years ago.
In the first episode Midge performs at a USO show with White Christmas as the closing number. She quickly realizes that she doesn't know the words. Her manager Susie learns the ins and outs of contract negotiation. Abe and Rose grapple with their new financial situation, and Joel finds the perfect spot for his new club until he discovers that the space isn't as it appears.
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On Saturday night December 7, Israel's Shalva Band gave an emotional performance of God Bless America at the Israeli American Council (IAC) Summit at the Diplomat Beach Resort in Hollywood, Florida.
The
IAC's mission is to unite Israelis who moved to America with the Jewish
State. Attendees spent Thursday through Saturday discussing the most
“pressing matters in Diaspora Jewish affairs.”
The band originally began as a music therapy group started by Shalva,
the Israel Association for the Care and Inclusion of Persons with
Disabilities.
They
previously made it to the finals in The Rising Star
competition leading to representing Israel at Eurovision, but they dropped out because they would have had to violate Shabbat to perform.
At the Summit, President Trump prefaced his introduction of the Shalva Band with a tribute to Irving Berlin, who wrote God Bless America in 1918 and revised it to the current form in 1938. After the performance, they showered him with hugs. Enjoy! A
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It's another
Monday, and it's time for another joke to start the week. Here comes another
one from Toronto's Jewish Folks
Telling Jokes, a night of comedy to benefit Jewish
Family and Child, one of the foremost Jewish service agencies in North
America. We
previously posted a few jokes that were told at the event, a Canadian
contribution to the world of Jewish humor, probably inspired by the
off-Broadway show Old
Jews Telling Jokes, still touring around the USA. We'll be posting more of these jokes on upcoming Mondays. Here's another oldie
but goodie, told by Alf Kwinter. Here's
the setup: Moishe and Duvid met on Spadina Avenue in Toronto. Moishe says: Duvid, my name is no longer Moishe. And then...
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Gomez, who is Sephardic, grew up in Memphis, Tenn., and Naples, Fla.
She said although she lived in the heart of the Bible belt in Memphis,
the Jewish community thrived. She also noted she is a descendant of the
Gomez family who fled to America after the Spanish Inquisition. Their
family ancestor Luis Gomez established the Gomez Mill House in 1714 in
Newburgh, N.Y., and it remains one of the earliest known Jewish
dwellings in North America and one of the oldest homes on the National
Register of Historic Places.
Together, with her husband — comedian Sebastian Maniscalco — and
their two children, 2 1/2-year-old Serafina and 3-month-old Caruso,
Gomez said their artistic visions are a team effort, whether she’s
styling posters or tour artwork for her husband or he is weighing in on
designs for their West Hollywood home.
Here's a funny video about what happened when Sebastian Maniscalco's family wanted him to baptize their Jewish baby so she could celebrate Christmas.
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This week we welcome Shabbat with a new version of Adon Olam by Cantor Shira Ginsburg and Composer-in-Residence Michael Hunter Ochs at the East End Temple, a Reform synagogue in New York City.
Cantor Ginsburg is celebrating her 15th year of
service at the synagogue in New York City. As a Messinger Scholar, Shira earned
her Masters, Cantorial degrees and ordination from Hebrew Union College
– Jewish Institute of Religion.
Shira is the recipient of the Women
of Reform Judaism Award, Cantorial Alumni Association Prize, and Sylvia
Davidson Memorial Award for extraordinary diligence in mastering
Chazzanut.
In addition to his success in contemporary popular music, Ochs is
universally recognized as a leading composer of Jewish and Interfaith
worship music. On any given Friday evening his music can be heard in
synagogues around the world.
Enjoy, and Shabbat shalom!
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On this Throwback Thursday we're going back 42 years to 1977 and a standup comedy performance by Billy Crystal on the TV show Midnight Special. In this set, Billy makes fun of leisure suits, Nehru jackets, corduroy on college campuses, getting phony proof of age, and dealing with a malfunctioning microphone at the senior class high school assembly. Enjoy! A
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Haddish had been kicking around the comedy world and doing guest shots
on television programs for some time, but her role in the raunchy comedy “Girls Trip” got her the
spotlight she deserved. She was voted Best Supporting Actress by the
prestigious New York Film Critics Circle, a rarity for a comedic
performance, and ultimately far more impressive than an Oscar.
As a teen she met her biological father, an Eritrean Jew who was living
in Los Angeles for a while but went back to his home country when she
was three years old. At the same time she started working in comedy
clubs and other entertainment jobs. Ironically enough, one of her early
gigs was working as part of the party team at bar and bat mitzvahs in
Los Angeles.
In recent years, though, Haddish has gotten more interested in exploring
her Jewish heritage. She started learning Hebrew and preparing for a
bat mitzvah of her own. Indeed, she plans to answer the call to Torah
this December 3, her 40th birthday, which just so happens to coincide
with the release of her latest comedy special on Netflix, “Black
Mitzvah.”
In a special Sunday night edition of Jimmy Fallon’s
“The Tonight Show,” Haddish broke into singing “Hava Nagila,” backed up
by The Roots, Fallon’s famous house band.
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She is Japanese. He is Jewish. Together, they cook up all kinds of
deliciousness. Meet Sawako Okochi and Aaron Israel. Their love for each
other led to marriage, and their love of cooking led to Shalom Japan.
The Brooklyn restaurant merges Japanese and Jewish culinary influences.
On the menu? Matzoh ball ramen and a lox bowl version of chirashi.
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It's another
Monday, and it's time for another joke to start the week. Here comes another
one from Toronto's Jewish Folks
Telling Jokes, a night of comedy to benefit Jewish
Family and Child, one of the foremost Jewish service agencies in North
America.
We'll be posting more of these jokes on upcoming Mondays. Here's another oldie
but goodie, told by Susan Lanczi.
Here's
the setup: . An elderly woman goes for a checkup to her physician. The physician is asking many questions about her health. And then...
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We've posted a few video clips by French Moroccan Jewish comedian Gad Elmaleh, and your response has been very positive. So today we're posting another one of his funny bits as shown on the Conan O'Brien show last year. Before he launched his comedy career which made him France's most popular comedian, Elmaleh played at a piano bar, entertaining customers who didn't speak English. One day one of the owners asked him to sing a song in English for an important client whose wife was celebrating her birthday and insisted on an English song.
So he made up a song that sounded like English. And everyone joined in.
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