Meir Kay Plays Chanukah Trivia with Strangers in New York Streets for a Donut

Meir Kalmanson has been posting funny Jewish videos on YouTube under the name Meir Kay. An Orthodox Jewish filmmaker from Brooklyn, his aim is to spread "happiness and positivity."

We've already featured some of his videos on the Evolution of Chassidic Dance, High Fiving Strangers in New York, Dancing Behind People in Jerusalem, How to Lift the Torah Like a Boss, and Looking for a Leader in the Park.

In this video Meir, inspired by Billy Eichner's Billy in the Street For a Dollar street interviews, approaches random strangers walking the streets of New York City in December 2022, and offers them a free donut if they can answer his trivia questions about Chanukah.

Enjoy!

Shofar in the Street: British Actor Marcus Freed Asks Londoners to Identify Shofar

As we count down the days to Rosh Hashanah, today we're posting a "Shofar in the Street" segment with British actor Marcus J. Freed asking London passers-by just what is the animal horn that he is carrying.

Is it a buffalo horn? Elephant tooth or tusk?  Antelope horn? Musical instrument? Something a Viking would use? Then Freed does the big reveal by saying it's Jewish and proceeding to sound an abbreviated combination tekiah and teruah.

The video is sponsored by the Pico Shul in Beverly Hills, California.

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A YouTube Polyglot Tries Out His Yiddish in Brooklyn

The New York Times recently published a feature article about Frankie Light, an African-American Brooklyn resident whose shtick is learning new languages and posting YouTube videos of him trying to use them in conversation in public places.

As Saki Knafo wrote in the article in the Metropolitan section,

Frankie Light is what’s known on social media as a YouTube polyglot. He studies various languages and practices them on the streets of New York, enlisting strangers as impromptu conversational partners. The often-charming results are then posted online. His most popular videos have gotten more than seven million views.

Frankie's adventures in the streets of Crown Heights and Boro Park were a mixed success. Despite his valiant attempts to engage residents in Yiddish conversations, most of them said they spoke "a bissele Yiddish" - a little Yiddish, and said they were more comfortable in English, Russian, French, and Hebrew. But we give Frankie a big "E" for effort.

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Aish UK Brings Chanukah Festivities to the Streets of London

Aish UK is at the forefront of British Jewry, providing wisdom, depth and beauty. For the last 25 years, Aish UK has existed to inspire deeper connections in Judaism to ensure a vibrant future for the Jewish People.

This week Aish UK took to the streets of London to find out what the British public knows about the Jewish Festival of Lights, Chanukah. They spun dreidels, ate doughnuts in Leicester Square, and sang everybody's favorite Chanukah songs in some unfamiliar tunes. 

Enjoy!

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Meir Kay Asks New Yorkers to Walk the Red Carpet During Fashion Week

As we surf the web looking for funny videos to post here, we come across some very talented funny people who delight in creating interesting and humorous situations to provide entertainment and reasons to laugh.

Because this is Jewish Humor Central, we try to find ones that have some kind of Jewish connection. Sometimes they're obvious, and sometime they're a bit of a stretch.

Meir Kalmanson has been posting funny Jewish videos on YouTube under the name Meir Kay. An Orthodox Jewish filmmaker from Brooklyn, his aim is to spread "happiness and positivity."

We've already featured six of his videos on the Evolution of Chassidic Dance, High Fiving Strangers in New York, Dancing Behind People in Jerusalem, How to Lift the Torah Like a Boss, Looking for a Leader in the Park, and A Hugging Spree in New York City.

In this video, Meir puts down a red carpet in New York streets and subway platforms and invites random strangers to strut during Fashion Week.

Enjoy!

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Stand-up Chasidic Comedian Mendy Pellin Searches for the Secret to a Happy Marriage

Mendy Pellin is a Chasid and a stand-up comedian. We have posted many of his shtick over the years. So what's new with Mendy? Well, he decided to walk the streets of a frum Brooklyn neighborhood and ask random passersby to tell him the secret to a happy marriage.

Men, women, children all responded to his questions and the answers provide a wide range of collective wisdom, including "Do the dishes," "Take out the garbage," and "Don't eat with your mouth full."

Enjoy!

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Jimmy Kimmel Asks Kids on the Street What They Know About Chanukah

Last week on the second night of Chanukah late night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel took to the streets of New York to ask random kids questions about Chanukah.

Most children who don't celebrate Chanukah are familiar with the story of Christmas, but they are less educated about the miracle of Chanukah. So Jimmy's crew went out on the street and asked kids who don't celebrate Hanukkah to tell us what they know about it.

- What is Chanukah?
- Have you heard of Jewish people?
- Why doesn't Santa bring any of the Jewish kids toys?
- Can you spell Hanukkah?
- Would you like to meet a Jewish person?
- Do you know any Hanukkah songs?

Enjoy the last day of Chanukah!

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What London Residents Think When They First Hear the Word "Jew"

From London comes a social experiment reported on this week by the Jewish News, Britain's biggest Jewish newspaper.

It's a word association game, a device that has long been used by psychologists to reveal a person’s true feelings. 

The Israel Advocacy Movement used this tried and tested formula to discover what shoppers at Brent Cross thought when they heard the words Peter Andre and Katie Price (popular singers in Britain) to hipsters, Hindus, pizza…. And Jews.

The responses were mixed to say the least, with the first respondent having to ask a friend, before blurting out ‘money’.

Then ensued a steady stream of predictable stereotypes such as money, gold and Israel, in addition to ‘Holocaust’ and Hitler.

Others resorted to more ‘out-the-box’ responses, such as ‘Jesus’, Christians, ‘really got f****d up’, Ancient, ‘been in the country and in the world for a long time’.

The Israel Advocacy Movement seeks to counter hostility to Israel in Britain by training groups of volunteers and providing them with promotional material at the street level.

Although not all of the spontaneous responses to the question were negative, those that were reveal that the IAM has their work cut out for them.

Enjoy!

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