Tuesday, June 2, 2015

Stiller and Meara Computer Dating Skit - The Whole Megillah

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Last week we remembered the late Anne Meara with what we thought was a funny skit with her husband and comedy partner Jerry Stiller about...
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Monday, June 1, 2015

A Joke to Start the Week - "Fornication"

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It's the first Monday of June, and it's time for another joke to start the week. This oldie but goodie starts like this: Little...
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Sunday, May 31, 2015

Avi Liberman Brings Latest "Comedy for Koby" Stand-Up Tour to Israel

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Twice every year since 2002 Los Angeles comedian Avi Liberman brings a new group of three stand-up comedians from the US to major cities ...
Friday, May 29, 2015

Remembering Anne Meara With a Video Clip on Computer Dating

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Anne Meara, the comedy actress wife of Jerry Stiller and mother of Ben and Amy Stiller, died in Manhattan last Saturday at the age of 85....
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Thursday, May 28, 2015

A New Generation of Jewish Joke Tellers Grows in Brooklyn

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After years of associating Jewish jokes with old Jews, it's refreshing to see a new generation of Jewish joke tellers emerge. Where? ...
Wednesday, May 27, 2015

A Gilda Radner Flashback: It's the Judy Miller Show!

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It's hard to believe that it's been 26 years since the death of Gilda Radner, the brilliant Jewish comedy star of Saturday Night ...
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Tuesday, May 26, 2015

A Saturday Night Live Flashback: Jacob the Bar Mitzvah Boy Explains Passover (With a Little Help from Billy Crystal)

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As we take leave of Shavuot and return to our humor mix, we came across a Saturday Night Live comedy skit that's only a couple of mon...
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Friday, May 22, 2015

Shavuot - The Scandalous Backstory of Ruth and Boaz

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The holiday of Shavuot starts this Saturday night. Although the two day holiday (one day in Israel) commemorates the giving and receiving...
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Thursday, May 21, 2015

Jewish Home at Rockleigh Residents Perform Songs From Tony Award Winning Musicals

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The Tony awards for Broadway shows will be presented on June 7. The residents of The Jewish Home at Rockleigh are already in the mood, ha...
Wednesday, May 20, 2015

A Bissel of Romance From the Jewish Home in Australia

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The word bissel means "a little bit" in Yiddish. "A Bissel Of..." is a new series of short videos featuring resi...
Tuesday, May 19, 2015

Orthodox Jewish Graduate Finds a Kosher Way to Give His Speech on Shabbat

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Don Greenberg, a triple major in computer science, finance and math at Binghamton University, was scheduled to speak at the Thomas J. Wa...
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Monday, May 18, 2015

A Joke to Start the Week: "The Guru"

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Today's joke to start the week is connected to yesterday's post about connections between Judaism and Buddhism.  It's a ve...
Sunday, May 17, 2015

Unexpected Traces in Jewish Places: Judaism and Buddhist Meditation

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In its series of Yiddish videos, the Jewish Daily Forward reported on elements of Buddhism appearing in some Jewish communities. (There...
Friday, May 15, 2015

A Beatles Shabbat at Temple Avodah in Oceanside NY

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  Last November, the rabbi and cantorial soloist of Temple Avodah, a Reform congregation in Oceanside, New York, led a Shabbat service ...
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Thursday, May 14, 2015

When You Don't Know the Difference Between a Jacuzzi and a Mikveh

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Under-Dos is the name of an Israeli Orthodox comedy group which specializes in irreverent sketches on aspects of Jewish life that are hi...
Wednesday, May 13, 2015

Comedy Spotlight: Benji Lovitt on the Shuk, Israel's Open-Air Markets

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Benji Lovitt, a native Texan who moved to Israel about eight years ago, has brought his comedy impressions of Jewish life in Israel and A...
Tuesday, May 12, 2015

The Ultimate Chasidic Food Taste Test

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There seems to be a surge of videos showing reactions of non-Jews to eating Jewish food for the first time.  We've already run a ...
Monday, May 11, 2015

A Joke to Start the Week: "Strawberries and...."

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It's beginning to feel a lot like summer here in New Jersey. But summer or winter, rain, snow or shine, when it's Monday, it'...
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Sunday, May 10, 2015

"It Shoulda Been You" Comes to Broadway With Singing and Kvetching

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Broadway has a new musical hit show based on an old familiar theme, a Jewish-gentile marriage. Reviews of It Shoulda Been You have been ...
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Friday, May 8, 2015

Mort Sahl Retells a Joke From Menachem Begin's Visit to the Reagan White House

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Mort Sahl, the Canadian-born American comedian, will celebrate his 88th birthday on Monday.  Sahl is widely considered the first mode...
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Thursday, May 7, 2015

Comedy Flashback: Jackie Mason on Smothers Brothers TV Show

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Jackie Mason has been featured on Jewish Humor Central many times over the years and we always get a lot of likes whenever we post some o...
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Wednesday, May 6, 2015

Musical Flashback to 1960: Harry Belafonte Sings Hinei Ma Tov

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Hinei Ma Tov is one of those songs, like Hava Nagila and Hevenu Shalom Aleichem , that has broken out of the world of Jewish music to a...
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Tuesday, May 5, 2015

Comedy Flashback: Early Jerry Seinfeld Stand-Up on Why People Have Pets

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Before Jerry Seinfeld scored big with his long-running TV series Seinfeld , he was a regular on the New York stand-up comedy circuit. I...
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Monday, May 4, 2015

A Joke to Start the Week - "The Talking Dog"

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It's a beautiful Monday in New Jersey and we hope the weather is just as beautiful where you are. And wherever you are it's time ...