Batman Joins 5000 Rabbis in Giant Chabad Photo

When 5,000 Chabad rabbis gathered in Brooklyn last month for their annual international conference, they posed for the traditional group photo, sitting in multi-level bleachers constructed just for the occasion.

The same photo is taken every year, but unlike the unvarying black clothing that they wear, the advance of technology makes a difference. This year the rabbis were pranked by Meir Kalmanson, whose funny videos about high-fiving in New York and dancing behind people in Jerusalem we have been sharing with you. Kalmanson, who goes by the name Meir Kay, made a video about the construction of the bleachers and the anticipation of attendees for the big snap. 

We thought it would have been a great idea to have someone dressed in a Waldo costume infiltrate the group and turn it into a Where's Waldo? moment, but Kalmanson had a better idea. What better comic book character to insert himself into the photo but Batman? Dressed in a Batman costume, the prankster joined the thousands of similarly clad rabbis. The funny photo was picked up by the Daily Mail in the UK and elsewhere. 

Another intruding technological influence was the selfie, enabled by many of the rabbis pulling out their smartphones, unable to resist the rare opportunity for a closeup with a sea of black clad rabbis in the background.

Enjoy!

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Wishing Mazal Tov to Kirk Douglas (Issur Danielovich) on His 100th Birthday

Today is the 100th birthday of Kirk Douglas, one of the most famous and accomplished actors of our time. After barely surviving a helicopter crash in 1991 and then suffering a stroke in 1996, he has focused on renewing his spiritual and religious life. We wish him a happy birthday ad meah v'esrim (until 120).

Douglas was born Issur Danielovitch in Amsterdam, New York, the son of Bryna "Bertha" and Herschel "Harry" Danielovitch. His parents were Jewish immigrants from what is now Belarus, and the family spoke Yiddish at home.

His father's brother, who emigrated earlier, used the surname Demsky, which Douglas' family adopted in the United States. Douglas grew up as Izzy Demsky and legally changed his name to Kirk Douglas before entering the United States Navy during World War II.

In his 1988 autobiography, The Ragman's Son, Douglas notes the hardships that he, along with six sisters and his parents, endured during their early years in Amsterdam, New York:

My father, who had been a horse trader in Russia, got himself a horse and a small wagon, and became a ragman, buying old rags, pieces of metal, and junk for pennies, nickels, and dimes. ... Even on Eagle Street, in the poorest section of town, where all the families were struggling, the ragman was on the lowest rung on the ladder. And I was the ragman's son.

Douglas became an international star through positive reception for his leading role as an unscrupulous boxing hero in Champion (1949), which brought him his first nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor.

Other early films include Young Man with a Horn (1950), playing opposite Lauren Bacall and Doris Day; Ace in the Hole opposite Jan Sterling (1951); and Detective Story (1951). He received a second Oscar nomination for his dramatic role in The Bad and the Beautiful (1952), opposite Lana Turner, and his third nomination for portraying Vincent van Gogh in Lust for Life (1956). He is among the last surviving stars from the Golden Age of Hollywood.

In 1955, he established Bryna Productions (named for his mother), which began producing films as varied as Paths of Glory (1957) and Spartacus (1960). In those two films, he starred and collaborated with then relatively unknown director, Stanley Kubrick. Douglas helped break the Hollywood blacklist by having Dalton Trumbo write Spartacus with an official on-screen credit, although Trumbo's family claims he overstated his role. He produced and starred in Lonely Are the Brave (1962), considered a cult classic, and Seven Days in May (1964), opposite Burt Lancaster, with whom he made seven films. In 1963, he starred in the Broadway play One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, a story he purchased, which he later gave to his son Michael Douglas, who turned it into an Oscar-winning film.

As an actor and philanthropist, Douglas has received three Academy Award nominations, an Oscar for Lifetime Achievement, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. As an author, he has written ten novels and memoirs. Currently, he is No. 17 on the American Film Institute's list of the greatest male screen legends of classic Hollywood cinema, and the highest-ranked living person on the list.

Douglas starred as American soldier Mickey Marcus in the film Cast a Giant Shadow, with John Wayne, Frank Sinatra, and Yul Brynner. Marcus commanded units of the fledgling Israel Defense Forces during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. Here is a video clip from the film, followed by a video interview that Douglas gave to a Spanish language TV show in which he discussed his difficulties growing up Jewish amid anti-semitism.

Happy Birthday, Kirk! 

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Throwback Thursday Comedy Special: Joan Rivers - 50 Years Ago on Hollywood Palace

For today's Throwback Thursday comedy special, we go back fifty years for a Joan Rivers standup comedy stint on The Hollywood Palace.

The date was February 5, 1966, and Joan's performance was a preview of the themes that she would use for the next 40 plus years of standup comedy.

Enjoy!

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Dancing Behind People in Jerusalem - A Comedy Skit by Meir Kay

Meir Kalmanson, the high-fiving prankster whose stunt in the streets of New York we posted a few weeks ago, doesn't limit his field to New York, and to America. 

Kalmanson, who goes by the name Meir Kay, took to the streets of Jerusalem to engage in lively dance steps while walking behind random strangers who had no idea what he was up to.

In many cases he manages to be unobtrusive and is not even noticed. But when caught, he has the remarkable ability to rapidly change his manner, stop the dancing instantly, and appear to be taking a selfie photo or tying his shoelaces. Of course, the music track was added later.

Enjoy!

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The Golden Bride: Kalmen's Top 10 Yiddish Words That Made it into the English Language

Adam B. Shapiro, the actor who played the role of Kalmen the matchmaker in the acclaimed Yiddish production of Di Goldene Kale (The Golden Bride) last year, has come up with a funny video in which he lists, and illustrates with facial expressions, the top ten Yiddish words that have found a home in the English language.

If you missed the show in its concert version at Rutgers University or the full production in its run at the Museum of Jewish Heritage, we've included a video with excerpts from the production below.

Enjoy!

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Excerpts from Di Goldene Kale (The Golden Bride)

A Joke to Start the Week - "Selfridges"

Another Monday, another Joke to Start the Week. We thought we had run out of jokes from the Old Jews Telling Jokes collection, but they keep popping up. As long as they do, we'll keep sharing them with you.

Today's joke is told by Aaron Schechter, who worked as an accountant in the entertainment industry.

Here's the setup: Abie and Sura were immigrants from Romania and they immigrated to a place called Golders Green, just outside of London. They owned a small haberdashery store and they lived upstairs above the store. And then...

Enjoy!

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December Comedy Special: Elon Gold on Why Jews Are Better Off Without Christmas Trees

 

Elon Gold is an American comedian, television actor, writer and producer. He starred in the television series Stacked.  He also starred in the short-lived sitcom In-Laws.

 

Known for his impressions, including those of Jeff Goldblum, Howard Stern and Jay Leno, Gold was a judge on the ABC celebrity impersonation competition series The Next Best Thing.Gold was also in the movie Cheaper by the Dozen as a cameraman from the Oprah Winfrey show.

  

Gold attended the Westchester Day School in Mamaroneck, NY and the Marsha Stern Talmudical Academy (MTA)/Yeshiva University High School for Boys in Manhattan, NY. He is a practicing orthodox Jew.

We have posted some of Elon's videos over the years and we'll keep posting them whenever we find a new one.

Here's Elon's lates video, a stand-up routine he did for Stand With Us, an international, non-profit Israel education organization. It's a funny commentary on why Jews are better off without Christmas trees.

Enjoy!


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Jewish Traces in Unexpected Places: An Orthodox Jewish Choir Sings in an English Monastery

Kirkstall Abbey is a ruined Cistercian monastery in Kirkstall, north-west of Leeds in West Yorkshire, England.

Last week it was the site of a special event celebrating multi cultural faith and diversity sponsored by the Leeds Faiths Forum.

One of the groups participating in the event and singing Adon Olam was the choir of the United Hebrew Congregation, an independent orthodox synagogue operating under the auspices of the Chief Rabbi of the British Commonwealth.

This is the 21st version of Adon Olam around the world that we have posted since the start of Jewish Humor Central in 2009. We expect to post many more versions.

In this video the words to Adon Olam were printed on a large banner held by a group of kids. Two of the words are incorrect. Can you tell which ones?

Enjoy and Shabbat shalom!


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Throwback Thursday Comedy Special: A Rare Classic Sid Caesar Pantomime - Woman Getting Dressed

The late, great comedian Sid Caesar, was a master at pantomime, and used it to great acclaim on his TV shows, Your Show of Shows and Caesar's Hour.

We are fortunate that an anonymous poster found some vintage clips of Caesar in some of his most famous routines, including this 7-minute solo sketch of a woman getting dressed.

Enjoy!

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#Throwback Thursday, #TBT

The Great Jewish Comedians: Dick Shawn Performs Standup Comedy on the Johnny Carson Show

Dick Shawn was born Richard Schulefand in Buffalo, New York and raised in adjacent Lackawanna. 

The best remembered roles of his career are the hot-headed Sylvester Marcus, son of Mrs. Marcus (Ethel Merman), in Stanley Kramer's It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963) and easygoing Lorenzo St. DuBois/Adolf Hitler in the musical Springtime for Hitler, the play within Mel Brooks's movie The Producers (1968).

He had continued success with his stand-up comedy act that he successfully performed for over 35 years in nightclubs around the world. His award-winning one-man stage show, The Second Greatest Entertainer in the Whole Wide World, was sometimes performed with a unique opening. When the audience entered the theater, they saw a bare stage with a pile of bricks in stage center. When the play began, Shawn emerged from the pile of bricks. The startling effect of this required complete concentration and breath control because the slightest movement of the bricks could ruin the surprise appearance.

In addition to roles in more than 30 movies and seven Broadway productions, Shawn made numerous television appearances, toured often, and periodically performed a one-man show that mixed songs, sketches, and pantomime. 

In this video clip of his appearance on The Johnny Carson Show (hosted by Joan Rivers), Shawn does a monologue on Jews in athletics, announcing, and religion followed by a session on the interview couch with Rivers.

Enjoy!
 
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YidLife Crisis in Tel Aviv: A Visit to Beit Hatfutsot, Museum of the Jewish People

We've been following the Canadian comedy duo of Jamie Elman and Eli Batalion as they travel the world in search of funny situtations involving Yiddish culture, language, and food.

Their web series, YidLife Crisis, was recently nominated for a Canadian Screen Award for best original digital media series.
They have taken their act on the road, performing a live version of their show in Krakow, Tel Aviv, Toronto, Montreal, Los Angeles and Birmingham, England.

The pair has also received a prestigious grant from the Natan Fund and have created a series of travelogues featuring their impressions of Tel Aviv. We previously posted their funny Valentine’s Day episode guest staring Mayim Bialik and two of their Tel Aviv episodes, Canadians in Cabs Getting Kishkas, and Searching for Yiddish Speakers and Second Hand Items in Old Jaffa

There's a lot of Yiddish in some of the episodes and some of the English includes coarse language that we avoid in our family-friendly posts, so we pick the episodes that we share with you very carefully.

Today we're posting another one of their Tel Aviv episodes . In it, they visit Beit Hatfutsot, Tel Aviv's Museum of the Jewish People.
Enjoy!
 
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A Joke to Start the Week - "Blue Ribbon Bull"

It's Monday again and time for another joke to start the week. This week we found another joke from the archives of Old Jews Telling Jokes. Today's joke teller is clinical drug study printer Richard Levine. 

Here's the setup: A Jewish guy has a ranch in Texas and he has a prize bull. Every year this prize bull wins another blue ribbon. And then...

Enjoy!


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Monica Piper's "Not That Jewish" Brings New Comedy to Off-Broadway

Comedian Monica Piper, the Emmy Award-winning and Golden Globe nominated writer and actress who we've featured doing stand-up comedy earlier this year, is starring in Not So Jewish, a hilarious and heartfelt autobiographical ride of a Jew-“ish” woman’s life. 

It's the one-woman show she wrote and performed for the Jewish Women's Theatre in Santa Monica, California.  It's playing now at the New World Stages on West 50th Street in New York City.

From her show business family in the Bronx, to a WASP wedding, to her first step on a comedy club stage and life as a single mom, Piper shares the milestones and moments that shaped her life with the same signature wit found in her writing on Roseanne, Mad About You, and Rugrats. 

The show is reminiscent of Billy Crystal's 700 Sundays with a peppering of Neil Simon's Lost In Yonkers, Reviewers have called it 90 lightning fast minutes of funny, moving, intimate and inspirational theater.

Here's a video clip from the show. Enjoy!

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Jewish Traces in Unexpected Places: Belgian Tenor Helmut Lotti Sings Hevenu Shalom Aleichem

Hevenu Shalom Aleichem is one of the most widely played and sung Hebrew songs around the world, probably second only to Hava Nagila. We have been sharing versions of this song as performed in India, Guatemala, Australia, Korea, Belarus, and in an Irish pub.

We came across a version of Hevenu Shalom Aleichem performed at a concert in Belgium by Helmut Lotti, a Belgian tenor and singer-songwriter. He performs in several styles and languages.

Once an Elvis impersonator, he has sung African and Latino hit records, and he crossed over into classical music in the 1990s. Lotti sings fluently in his mother language Dutch, as well as Afrikaans, English, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Latin, Russian, Spanish, and Ukrainian. He has sold over 13 million albums worldwide and received over 90 platinum and 70 gold albums. Lotti does volunteer work as an ambassador for UNICEF.

Enjoy and Shabbat shalom!

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Adam Sandler Sings His Thanksgiving Song

 

Comedian/Actor Adam Sandler struck gold on Saturday Night Live when he sang his Chanukah Song. But less known is his Thanksgiving Song which we're sharing with you today. 

Just like The Chanukah Song, it's made up of silly rhymes, some of which don't make any sense, but which are funny nevertheless. 

Unlike The Chanukah Song, which includes list of people who are one quarter, half, or fully Jewish, the Thanksgiving Song is Sandler's free association of anything that has to do with Thanksgiving and anything that rhymes with it, such as "Turkey with the girls and turkey with the boys; my favorite kind of pants are corduroys."

Enjoy!

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Orlando Jewish Day School Kids Give Thanks on Thanksgiving

The children of the Orlando Jewish Day School and Chai Preschool know that Thanksgiving Day is a time to give thanks. And in this video, they are outspoken in expressing thanks for all the wonderful things in their lives.

They give thanks to their mom and dad, abba and ema, bubby and zaide, teachers and school.

Thanksgiving is an American holiday, but it feels like a Jewish holiday. In many families where Shabbat and Yom Tov restrictions on traveling make large gatherings difficult, Thanksgiving is the one day each year when large families and groups of friends can look forward to feasting together.

From our family to yours, we wish you a Happy Thanksgiving. Enjoy!

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Comedy Showcase: Jerry Seinfeld on Donut Holes, Buffets, and TV Dinners

Comedian Jerry Seinfeld dropped in to the Stephen Colbert show earlier this year to show that he hasn't lost his touch with standup comedy. 

After years of being associated with his Seinfeld TV sitcom series, he picked up the microphone and carried on for seven minutes on food and weight related topics, with funny observations on the state of the nation's girth, donut holes, buffets, and TV dinners.

Enjoy!

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A Joke to Start the Week - "The Sound of Music"

It's going to be a busy week, with Thanksgiving holiday travel and family gatherings and a mixture of anticipation and stress. What a perfect time for a joke to start the week.

Once again we're glad to welcome back Michael Hirsch, who has been featured as a Jewish Humor Central joke teller this year.

 
Today Michael, an investment advisor for individuals and institutions, gives us a shaggy dog story that evokes memories of the Frankenstein novels and movies.

Here's the setup: Igor is sitting in Frankenstein's castle one evening when the front doorbell rings. And then...

Enjoy!

 
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Basketball Giant Shaquille O'Neal Dances the Hora

Shaquille O'Neal, the retired professional basketball player who is currently an analyst on the television program Inside the NBA, showed off his skill at a different sport last week -- dancing the Hora.

Seven feet tall and weighing 350 pounds, he was one of the heaviest players ever to play in the NBA. O'Neal played for six teams throughout his 19-year NBA career.

It happened at the Salter-Markowitz wedding in Miami, where O'Neal was a guest of Jamie Salter's, the father of the groom and his partner at Authentic Brands Group.

As the staff of TMZ reported,

We're told the entire party was poppin' until around 2:30 AM (oy vey) and at one point Shaq took to the dance floor -- but instead of his tried-and-true pop-locking routine, he got cultural ... and Horah'd it up.

BTW -- we're also told efforts were actually made to lift Shaq up in a chair (part of the dance) but they were predictably unsuccessful.

Which means we'll never know the answer to the question -- how many Jews does it take to lift Shaquille O'Neal?

Enjoy!

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Adon Olam Around the World: "Crazy Freilach" Band and Sand Artist Ilana Yahav in Kfar Saba Concert

Using only her fingers, Ilana Yahav, a world renowned sand artist, creates a wonderful and magical story that emerges in front of the eyes of amazed viewers. 

This week she collaborated with the German klezmer band called Crazy Freilach in a very unusual performance of Adon Olam in a concert at the Kfar Saba Conservatory in Israel.

We have posted many variations of Adon Olam as performed around the world, but this one has to rank as one of the most unusual ones. We hope you find it as uplifting and entertaining as we did as we prepare for Shabbat.

Enjoy and Shabbat shalom!

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