A Joke to Start the Week - "Belated Greeting"

It's another Monday, and time for another Joke to Start the Week.

Last month, when we were presenting programs on Jewish humor at the annual Camp Hazak week in the Catskills, we were glad to run into Sheldon Horowitz, a retired attorney and adjunct professor who loves to tell jokes and has been telling them for many years.

The camp, which was held at the newly refurbished Honor's Haven Resort and Spa in Ellenville, New York, attracted about 70 seniors, mostly from Hazak groups at Conservative synagogues from up and down the east coast. Sheldon had previously given us a few jokes at another Hazak retreat six years ago at Kutsher's Resort. Today we're sharing another one of his new old ones. We still have a few more that we're saving for future weeks.

Here's the setup: This Jewish guy is in a cemetery and he's saying Kaddish. As he's saying Kaddish he looks down the line and sees an old friend of his that he hasn't seen for 25 years. And then...

Enjoy!

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A Joke to Start the Week - "Sir Abe and the British Empire"

It's another Monday, and time for another Joke to Start the Week.

Today's jokester is Sheldon Horowitz, an adjunct professor whom we ran into  last week when we were performing at the annual Camp Hazak week in the Catskills.

The camp, which was held at the newly refurbished Honor's Haven Resort and Spa in Ellenville, New York, attracted a group of seniors, mostly from Hazak groups at Conservative synagogues from up and down the east coast. Sheldon had previously given us a few jokes at another Hazak retreat six years ago at Kutsher's hotel.

Here's the setup: Abe Goldberg is this British Jew. He's born in poverty, but he's intelligent, he's hard working, and he has ambition. So he pulls himself up from poverty, he goes from strength to strength, he becomes a captain of industry, he becomes a great philanthropist, and does great things for the empire. And then...

Enjoy!

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A Joke to Start the Week - "Would You Ever Marry Again?"

Today our joke to start the week comes from the same source that we've used for the past few weeks -- the Camp Hazak program for adults that took place at the Hudson Valley Resort in Kerhonkson, New York a few weeks ago.

There must be something about the mountain air in the Catskills that brings the jokes out in Jews who are vacationing there. Maybe it's the legacy of the many stand-up comedians who worked the playhouses, nightclubs, and casinos of the great hotels (and the not-so-great hotels also) that are now mostly gone.

Our jokester today is Irwin Kahn, a retired teacher who has appeared before on Jewish Humor Central. Here's the setup: This wonderful Jewish couple is married for 37 years and the wife says "We've had a wonderful marriage...true love that can never fade. But...I want to ask you a question. Should I pass away before you, would you ever marry again?" And then...

Enjoy!

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A Joke to Start the Week - A Centipede Goes to Shul

It's another Monday, and time for another Joke to Start the Week.

Today's jokester is Alan Sharkis, a 74-year-old retired teacher whom we met a few weeks ago at the annual Camp Hazak week in the Catskills.

The camp, which was held at the newly refurbished Hudson Valley Resort in Kerhonkson, New York (formerly The Granit), attracted about 140 seniors, mostly from Hazak groups at Conservative synagogues from up and down the east coast.

Here's the setup: Shloimie walks into a pet shop and he's looking for something unusual. And he tells the man behind the counter "I don't want a dog, I don't want a cat. I'm looking for something unusual." The pet shop owner says "I have just the right thing for you." And then...

Enjoy!

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A Joke to Start the Week - "Dating Advice"

Another Monday, another Joke to Start the Week. Today we're bringing you the second of a series of jokes that we recorded on site in New York's Catskill Mountains while we were entertaining a group of 150 adults at a Camp Hazak summer retreat.

Today's joke teller is 82-year-old Lenny Sherman, a retired designer for Westinghouse. Here's the background for the joke:

Sarah and Sadie live in the same apartment house. Morris recently moved into the apartment house and asked Sarah for a date. After the date, Sadie knocks on Sarah's door and asks her how it went because Morris has just asked Sadie for a date. So Sarah tells Sadie about the date and then...

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A Joke to Start the Week: A Part in the School Play

It's another Monday, and time for a joke to start the week. Today we're starting a series of jokes that we recorded at the Hudson Valley Resort in the Catskills last week while we were doing two comedy shows for the Hazak Senior Summer Camp.

Whenever we do a lecture or comedy program, some of the attendees are eager to tell their own jokes and we're only too happy to share them with you. If you invite us to give a lecture or comedy program in your community, we'll come equipped with a video camera to record the fun.

Right now we're looking for bookings in Israel in December and in Florida for January and February 2015. If you would like more information, please contact Al at 201-796-9273, or visit www.jewishhumorprograms.com.

Today's jokester is Herbert Aaron, an 85-year-old retired government chemist from Baltimore. Here's the setup: A little boy is in the fifth grade school and he came home all excited. "Mommy, mommy, we're going to do a play in school." And then...

Enjoy!

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