Monday, September 9, 2019

A Joke to Start the Week - "A Bargain Fan"

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A few years ago, Toronto's Koerner Hall was the site of a performance of Jewish Folks Telling Jokes , a night of comedy to benefit Je...
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Sunday, September 8, 2019

Musical Showcase: Kol Esperanza Sings "Jerusalem of Gold" in 3 Languages

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Kol Esperanza is a new young operatic pop trio, founded as a power-vocal group to perform classical songs, opera great hits, standards...
Friday, September 6, 2019

Welcoming Shabbat with Shalom Aleichem and Adon Olam by Brazilian Singer Fortuna

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Fortunee Safdié Joyce is a Brazilian Jewish singer and composer who performs under the name Fortuna. She has been studying the Sephardic ...
Thursday, September 5, 2019

Throwback Thursday Comedy Special: Buddy Hackett Tells Johnny Carson About His Mother's Chulent

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Every Thursday we take a walk down memory lane to find a video clip that made us laugh so many years ago and that continues to be a sourc...
Wednesday, September 4, 2019

Jiminy Glick (Martin Short) Interviews Mel Brooks in a Talk Show Parody

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In May 2003, comedian Martin Short, playing his role as interviewer Jiminy Glick, got to ask comedy legend Mel Brooks a series of questio...
Tuesday, September 3, 2019

Comedy Showcase: Elon Gold Performs at the StandWithUs Israel Dinner in NYC

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StandWithUs is an international, non-profit organization dedicated to informing the public about Israel and to combating the extremism...
Monday, September 2, 2019

A Joke to Start the Week - "Why Rabbis Tell Jokes"

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It's Monday again. Time for another joke to start the week. But this time it's a little different. We're bringing you not only ...
Sunday, September 1, 2019

Using Jewish Humor as a Tool - Rabbi Dan Bronstein on Taking Jewish Humor Seriously

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From Woody Allen to Jon Stewart, humor is embedded in the modern Jewish consciousness. But, argues Rabbi Dan Bronstein, it goes back mu...
Friday, August 30, 2019

Welcoming Shabbat with "Shabbat Hamalka" by Chaim Nachman Bialik

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Today we welcome Shabbat with Shabbat Hamalka , a song with lyrics by Chaim Nachman Bialik, one of the pioneers of modern Hebrew poetry. ...
Thursday, August 29, 2019

Throwback Thursday Comedy Showcase: Dennis Wolfberg and "The Double Bris"

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In the 1980s, stand-up comedian Dennis Wolfberg headlined at comedy clubs across the country as well as working in Las Vegas and Atla...
Wednesday, August 28, 2019

Comedy Showcase: Keith Barany on Driving in New York City

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The comedy of Keith Barany (“Bare-a-knee”) is often described as original, gentle & brilliant. In fact The NY Post called him “The ...
Tuesday, August 27, 2019

Jewish Traces in Unexpected Places: Keeping Kosher and Shomer Shabbat in Singapore

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Singapore is a small-but-prosperous island nation, both a city and a country, located just off the southern tip of Peninsular Malaysia ...
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Monday, August 26, 2019

A Joke to Start the Week - "Desert Island Romance"

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It's Monday again, and time for another Joke to Start the Week. We have another one today from Sheldon Horowitz, the retired attorney...
Sunday, August 25, 2019

Where Can You Get the Best Ice Cream? Gelato in Italy? How About Bamba in Israel?

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When you live in a hot country, you take your ice cream seriously. And when you live in Israel, where the diversity of food is phenomena...
Friday, August 23, 2019

Welcoming Shabbat with Oseh Shalom by Rick Recht

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Rick Recht is one of the top touring musicians in Jewish music playing over 150 dates each year in the US and abroad. Rick has revolu...
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Thursday, August 22, 2019

Throwback Thursday Comedy Special: Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner in "The Two Hour Old Baby"

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Fifty-eight years ago in 1961, Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner, riding high on the success of their comedy album The 2000 Year Old Man , could...
Wednesday, August 21, 2019

Standup Comic Rita Rudner Talks About Her New Musical Comedy

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Rita Rudner, one of our favorite standup comedians,stopped by the New York Live TV show to tell hosts Sara Gore and Jacque Reid about he...
Tuesday, August 20, 2019

"Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles" - A New Documentary Arrives This Friday

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A new documentary, Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles will be starting its run in select theaters this Friday, August 23. It's the ori...
Monday, August 19, 2019

A Joke to Start the Week - "Overcoming Fear of Flying"

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Last month, some of our jokes to start the week came from a Jews Telling Jokes night earlier this year at Chabad of Downtown San Diego. ...
Sunday, August 18, 2019

Comedy Showcase: Canadian Actor and Comedian Robert Cait

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Whenever we find a really funny Jewish comedian who tells clean jokes, we consider it a very good day. So today's a very good day...
Friday, August 16, 2019

Welcoming Shabbat with Anim Zemirot by the UK Shabbaton Choir

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London's Shabbaton Choir first took to the stage in 1986 as the B’nai Brith Festival Singers. It was formed by a young and tale...
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Thursday, August 15, 2019

Throwback Thursday Comedy Special: Groucho Marx's Funniest Contestant on "You Bet Your Life"

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On this Throwback Thursday we're turning the clock and calendar back to 1955, when Groucho Marx was in his heyday as host of the week...
Wednesday, August 14, 2019

Comedy Showcase: Dan Naturman Pokes Fun at Family and Doctors on "America's Got Talent"

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Dan Naturman entered the stand up comedy world as a Fordham University School of Law student. Following graduation, he abandoned law an...
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Tuesday, August 13, 2019

Hava Nagila Around the World - Gloria Dance School in Yerevan, Armenia

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As we keep singing Hava Nagila and dancing to it around the world, we keep finding new interpretations in new countries. In 2016 the G...
Monday, August 12, 2019

A Joke to Start the Week - "Reward and Punishment"

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It's another Monday, and time for another Joke to Start the Week. In early July, when we were presenting programs on Jewish humor a...
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Sunday, August 11, 2019

Jewish Traces in Unexpected Places: Tisha B'Av Psalm Inspires Pop Song and Line Dance

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Today is Tisha B'Av , an annual fast day in Judaism which commemorates the destruction of the First and Second Temples in Jerusalem...