Sunday, November 6, 2011

Comedy Showcase: Cathy Ladman on Being Too Jewish and Growing Up

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Many of our readers have been asking for more stand-up comedy, and today we're happy to oblige. It's been harder and harder to ...
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Friday, November 4, 2011

Jewish Humor Central Featured on Shalom America Radio Show

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Last week, Jewish Humor Central was the subject of an interview on Cleveland's Shalom America Program. Talk show host Phil Fink intervi...
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Jewish Traces in Unexpected Places: A Sefer Torah Arrives in Uganda

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Last June we shared the story of the Abudabaya Orthodox Jews of Putti, Uganda. Now we're updating the story with a video of the arriva...
Thursday, November 3, 2011

What's a Show Stopper in Paraguay? Hava Nagila, of Course

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Just when we thought we were running out of countries that give their unique styling to Hava Nagila , along comes a new one -- Paraguay. W...
Wednesday, November 2, 2011

"Blaming Israel" - A Funny Approach to Telling the Truth About the Middle East

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Ari Abramowitz and Jeremy Gimpel , soldier and commander in the IDF reserves, are the founders of a website called TheLandofIsrael.com an...
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Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Misirlou - A Greek Song of Forbidden Love, Popular at Jewish Weddings. But Sung by Chubby Checker?

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We can't recall a Jewish wedding or a shul dinner that we've been to over the years that didn't include a roomful of women rush...
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Monday, October 31, 2011

How Chamin (Portuguese Cholent) Came to Philadelphia

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Just as Colonial Williamsburg brings 18th century Virginia to life with costumed interpreters telling their stories in a living history mus...
Sunday, October 30, 2011

The Art of Storytelling: Grandma Goes Shopping

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With the explosion of hi-tech entertainment choices, full of action, color, and ever higher levels of sound, you might think that the tradi...
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Friday, October 28, 2011

Redeeming a Firstborn Donkey - Pidyon Petter Chamor Comes to Cleveland

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An obscure religious ceremony is becoming less obscure. First in Melbourne, then the Catskills, and now in Cleveland. We hadn't heard a...
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Thursday, October 27, 2011

Jewish Traces in Unexpected Places: Hevenu Shalom Aleichem in Busan, South Korea

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Among the over 600 blog posts that we've shared during the past two years have been some expressions of Jewish life and culture in plac...
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Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Jewish-Muslim Comedy Film "The Infidel" is Coming to NBC as a Sitcom Series

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Last year we blogged about a funny film called The Infidel , written by David Baddiel, a Pakistani Jew, and which starred Iranian Baha...
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Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Comedy Showcase: Meet Susanna Brisk, Standup Comic, as Orthodox Mom of 20 Kids

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From time to time we like to introduce you to comedians whose work you may not have seen but who we think are funny enough to help start yo...
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Monday, October 24, 2011

Funny Israeli Videos: The Price of a Parking Space

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Back in December 2009, in one of our first blog posts, we ran an old joke about how an Israeli, desperate for a parking space, tried to ba...
Sunday, October 23, 2011

Relatively Speaking - Trio of Comedies About Jewish Families Opens on Broadway

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While we were celebrating Sukkot on Thursday, Relatively Speaking , a trio of one-act comedies about mothers and daughters, husbands and wi...
Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Standup Comedy with Zalman Velvel and Rabbi Shmoyle

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Stu Silver, a real estate broker and author of books on investing in mobile homes and mobile home parks, is using his Hebrew name, Zalman V...
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Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Ivanka Trump Goes to Shul on Sukkot and the Media Doesn't Get It

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Newspapers in the U.S. and in London have been running articles and photos this week of Ivanka Trump and her husband Jared Kushner pushing ...
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Monday, October 17, 2011

A Slice of Sukkot Standup Comedy From Joel Chasnoff

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We've brought you some standup comedy from Joel Chasnoff before , and here he is again with a quick take on the holiday that we're ...
Sunday, October 16, 2011

Sukkot: A Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On

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We're right in the middle of the holiday of Sukkot , and all over the world, from the first day of the holiday last Thursday, there...
Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Carlebach Nigun Comes to Life at Beth Am in Los Angeles

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Oseh Shalom Bimromov, Hu Yaaseh Shalom Aleinu, V'al Kol Yisrael, V'imru Amen. May He who makes peace in His high places, make peace...
Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Israel Off the Beaten Track: Balabasta Festival in Jerusalem

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Today we're starting a series on places and events in Israel that even the most frequent visitors don't know about, and that don...
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