Jewish Humor Central

Jewish Humor Central is a daily publication to start your day with news of the Jewish world that's likely to produce a knowing smile and some Yiddishe nachas. It's also a collection of sources of Jewish humor--anything that brings a grin, chuckle, laugh, guffaw, or just a warm feeling to readers. Our posts include jokes, satire, books, music, films, videos, food, Unbelievable But True, and In the News. Some are new, and some are classics. We post every morning, Sunday through Friday. Enjoy!

Tuesday, November 13, 2018

Rapping Rabbi Lights Up the Crowd at International Chabad Emissary Conference

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Last week more than 5,000 Chabad rabbis and their supporters gathered in Brooklyn for their annual Kinus Hashluchim , a conference of the...
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Monday, November 12, 2018

Lots of Jewish Jokes to Start the Week - "Guess the Punchline" Game

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"Iceberg, Goldberg...What's the difference?" "Who wrote this crap?" "His brother is a doctor" "...
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Sunday, November 11, 2018

Comedy Showcase: Standup Comic Wendy Liebman Jokes About Her Marriage on America's Got Talent

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Wendy Liebman has been performing stand-up comedy for more than 20 years. We like her style. It's mostly clean and reminds us of R...
Friday, November 9, 2018

Welcoming Shabbat with Lecha Dodi at Devotion by the Ocean in Ventnor, New Jersey

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In the summertime at the New Jersey shore, two congregations have been pooling their resources in a Kabbalat Shabbat service that takes ...
Thursday, November 8, 2018

Throwback Thursday Comedy Special: Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca in "The Drummer"

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In the early 1950s, Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca were big hits in the weekly 90 minute variety show called Your Show of Shows . We have be...
Wednesday, November 7, 2018

60 Years Later, Violinist Itzhak Perlman Returns to the Ed Sullivan Theatre

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This week famed violinist Itzhak Perlman returned to the same stage he graced sixty years earlier when he performed on 'The Ed Sulli...
Tuesday, November 6, 2018

"The Jews Are Coming" - Controversial Israeli Sketch Comedy Series - Abraham and Seinfeld

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In 2014 Israeli satire on TV took a bold step forward with the airing of a new series of sketches called HaYehudim Ba'im (The Jews...
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Monday, November 5, 2018

A Joke to Start the Week - "The Mother-in-Law"

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It's another Monday and time for another Joke to Start the Week. The Forward is producing a series of classic Yiddish jokes presen...
Sunday, November 4, 2018

From Israel With Laughs: More Israeli Standup Comedy in Engish

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Comedians Yohay Sponder and Shahar Hason got their start as comedians in Israel catering exclusively to Hebrew-speaking audiences. As t...
Friday, November 2, 2018

Welcoming Shabbat with Yigdal by the Portnoy Brothers

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The Portnoy Brothers were born and raised in Manchester, UK and are currently living just outside of Jerusalem in Bet Zayit. ​ ...
Thursday, November 1, 2018

Throwback Thursday Comedy Special: The Sanity Clause from the Marx Brothers' Night at the Opera

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On this Throwback Thursday we're going back 83 years to 1935 and one of the funniest movies made by The Marx Brothers. "The Sa...
Wednesday, October 31, 2018

Comedy Showcase: "Men vs. Women" From Rita Rudner's New TV Special

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We've been big fans of Rita Rudner ever since she started to appear on late night TV in the 1980s. One of the hallmarks of her com...
Tuesday, October 30, 2018

Brewing Tea the Yiddish Way, and in Yiddish (With English Subtitles)

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So you think you know how to make a glezele tay (a glass of tea)? Do you think all it takes is to dip a tea bag into a glass of hot wate...
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Monday, October 29, 2018

A Joke to Start the Week - "Competitive Shoe Stores"

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It's Monday again. Time for another joke to start the week. Today we're bringing you a joke from the Old Jews Telling Jokes tour...
Sunday, October 28, 2018

Jewish Education: Quiz is Proof That We Still Have a Long Way to Go

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OK, so this is a video post by BuzzFeed that's meant to be funny, like all of their posts. Still, it's an eye opener. A group of yo...
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Friday, October 26, 2018

Havdalah Service by B'nai B'rith Youth Organization with Guitar Chords

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On Fridays we usually post a musical welcome to Shabbat with a version of  Shalom Aleichem ,  Lecha Dodi , or  Adon Olam . But this week...
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