Remembering Yaakov Kirschen, "Dry Bones" Political Cartoonist and Humorist

Israeli political cartoonist Yaakov Kirschen died on Monday at 87 at the Meir Medical Center in Kfar Saba, following a lengthy illness.

As Danielle Greyman-Kennard wrote in The Jerusalem Post,

The famed cartoonist, known for Dry Bones, has been published by many leading newspapers in both Israel and the Diaspora - including The Jerusalem Post, which was the first to enjoy publishing Kirschen’s work in January of 1973.

"Bones, as his friends and colleagues called him, was a wonderful artist
and satirist who always hit the nail on the head with his cartoons," former Post editor-in-chief Steve Linde shared. "He really was a national treasure."

No political leader in Israel or the US was safe from Kirschen's perceptive and satiric wit. In addition to his daily cartoons, he wrote humorous books, gave lectures, and delivered jokes about life in Israel and other Jewish subjects. One of his long-time aims was achieved a few years ago with the publication of The Dry Bones Haggadah.

Here's a video clip from a Kirschen presentation in which he tells a few jokes about life in the Nixon era.

Enjoy!

Remembering Larry King: A Wide-Ranging Interview at a 2017 Jerusalem Post Conference

Larry King, Jewish television legend and longtime host of Larry King Live on CNN died yesterday at 87, one month after being hospitalized with COVID-19 in Los Angeles.

King was born Lawrence Harvey Zeiger in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn in 1933 to Orthodox Jewish parents who emigrated to the United States from Belarus.

As Tamar Beeri wrote in The Jerusalem Post,

King was considered the king of interview talk shows, having conducting by his ucount over 60,000 interviews in his 63 years in the business. He was at his peak on “Larry King Live” on CNN, which kicked off in 1985 and ran for 25 years. It remained the network’s top-rated show throughout his tenure.

In 2017, King received an award at the Jerusalem Post Conference where he was interviewed. In a wide-ranging session, he spoke frankly about his Judaism and his love for Israel. He expressed his views about war and peace, and reminisced about his interviews with Eleanor Roosevelt, Vladimir Putin, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Yitzchak Rabin, and Donald Trump.

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