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!
We've been collecting versions of Hava Nagila for 10 years, but none of the 82 versions that we've posted were played by an all-accordion orchestra. Now that we've found our first all-accordion orchestra playing an energetic version of Hava Nagila, we just had to share it with you. The orchestra, conducted by Victor Darenboim, is based in Beersheva, Israel. They have recorded more folk music, Israeli and Russian, and we plan to share some of their works with you in the coming weeks. Enjoy! A SPECIAL NOTE FOR NEW EMAIL SUBSCRIBERS:
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This week we welcome Shabbat with Ana b'Cho'ach, a liturgical poem from the Kabbalat Shabbat service that appears in the siddur just before Lecha Dodi. It's a Kabbalistic prayer composed by Rav Nehunia Ben Hakannah.
Known
as the 42-letter Name of God, Ana b'Cho'ach is a unique formula
built of 42 letters written in seven sentences of six words each. Each
of the seven sentences correspond to the seven days of the week, seven
specific angels, and to a particular heavenly body. The letters that
make up Ana b'Cho'ach are encoded within the first 42 letters of the book of Genesis.
The
kabbalists explain that this combination of letters takes us back to
the time of Creation, and each time we meditate on a particular
sequence, we return to the original uncorrupted energy that built the
world. By performing the Ana b'Cho'ach meditation, we enrich our lives with unadulterated spiritual Light and positive energy.
This version of Ana b'Cho'ach is sung by Dikla Hacmon Orbach. The Hebrew text and translation appear below the video.
Enjoy, and Shabbat shalom!
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ANA B'CHO'ACH
We, we beg Hashem with the strength and greatness of thy right arm, untangle our knotted fate.
Accept your people's song, elevate, elevate and purify us
We beg Hashem with the strength and greatness of thy right arm, untangle our knotted fate.
Accept your people's song, elevate and purify us
Please, heroic one, those who pursue your uniqueness guard them as the pupil of an eye.
Bless them, purify them, pity them
May your righteousness always reward them. Powerful and Holy One
Powerful and Holy One, in goodness lead your flock.
Unique and proud one, to your people turn, who remember your holiness.
Accept our cries, and hear our screams, oh knower of mysteries. (Blessed is the name of his noble kingdom forever and ever.)
At the New York Alumni Association in 1998, Red Buttons presented an award to Fyvush Finkel in recognition of his many years on the Yiddish and Broadway stages. During the evening, Buttons showed off his Hebrew and Yiddish (actually Japanese) singing abilities.
Finkel entertained the crowd with a solo performance of Tradition and If I Were a Rich Man from Fiddler on the Roof. He also sang I'm Glad I'm Not Young Anymore from Gigi. Enjoy! A SPECIAL NOTE FOR NEW EMAIL SUBSCRIBERS:
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Last week we shared a video by world traveler Drew Goldberg, who goes by the name Drew Binsky when he travels. Binsky is close to achieving his goal of visiting
each of the 193 countries recognized by the United Nations. In just a
few months, the 28-year-old will have done it. It
started when he spent part of his college junior year in Prague after a
Birthright trip to Israel. Then he got hooked on travel and never
stopped.
Today we're going along for the ride as Drew pays a visit to Turkmenistan, where he encounters Olga, who with her family tries to maintain Jewish traditions in the Muslim country, which has shared borders with Iran, Afghanistan, and Uzbekistan, and which is friendly to all religions.
Enjoy!
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Our series on The Great Jewish
Comedians has blossomed into a lecture on 15 of the greatest comedians
that's now one of the most popular on our lecture circuit. It sold out the 575
seat auditorium at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton last winter.
We've created a follow-up
90-minute lecture with 15 more comedians and it's scheduled for February
10 at FAU. One of the comedians we're featuring in the lecture is Phil
Silvers.
Silvers (1911-1985) was an American entertainer and comedic actor,
known as "The King of Chutzpah". He starred in The Phil Silvers
Show, a 1950s sitcom set on a U.S. Army post in which he played Master
Sergeant Ernest (Ernie) Bilko.
He began entertaining aged 11, when he would sing in theaters when
the film projector broke down (a common occurrence in those days), to the point
where he was allowed to keep attending the same movie theater free of charge,
to sing through any future breakdowns.
Silvers wrote the lyrics for Frank Sinatra's "Nancy (With the
Laughing Face)". Although he was not a songwriter, he wrote the lyrics
while visiting composer Jimmy Van Heusen. The two composed the song for Van
Heusen's writing partner Johnny Burke, for his wife Bessie's birthday.
Substituting Sinatra's little daughter's name Nancy at her birthday party, the
trio pressed the singer to record it himself. The song became a popular hit in
1945 and was a staple in Sinatra's live performances.
He was a guest on The Ed Sullivan Show, where he appeared in a
skit with composer Jerome Kern about Kern's famous song Old Man River
from the musical Show Boat.
Enjoy!
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It's another
Monday, and it's time for another joke to start the week. Here comes another
one from Toronto's Jewish Folks
Telling Jokes, a night of comedy to benefit Jewish
Family and Child, one of the foremost Jewish service agencies in North
America.
We'll be posting more of these jokes on upcoming Mondays. Here's another one, told by Joey Leventhal.
Here's
the setup: Ruchel came home from work, and her husband says "Hey Ruchel, how come you're late today? You're always on time." And she says "Oy, I'm having trouble with the car." And then... Enjoy! A SPECIAL NOTE FOR NEW EMAIL
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Sebastian Maniscalco is one of the funniest of today's ethnic comedians. As an Italian-American married to a Jew, he has acquired a pair of in-laws who keep giving him material for his stand-up comedy routines and his Netflix specials. We have previously posted his descriptions of his first Passover seder and how he tried to baptize his Jewish baby. Today we found another one of his sets on YouTube when he returned to The Tonight Show with jokes about his experiences eating out at restaurants with his wife and in-laws.
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Dnipro is the third largest city in Ukraine and it's the home of the chamber orchestra of the Dnipro State Conservatory.
Today we're welcoming Shabbat with the orchestra's version of Shalom Aleichem from Lev Kogan's Hassidic Tunes for Horn and Orchestra with Dmytro Taran playing the French horn. Enjoy, and Shabbat Shalom! A SPECIAL NOTE FOR NEW EMAIL
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Allan Sherman dominated the world of
song parody during the 1960s and recorded eight albums, starting with My Son the Folksinger.
Listening
to or reading his lyrics is a crash course in pop culture of the 1960s,
with Sherman taking satiric swipes at summer camp, psychiatry, fad
diets, Hadassah ladies, school dropouts, and upward mobility.
The popularity of his parodies got him many guest appearances on TV variety shows. In this video clip, Sherman prefaces his rendition of Smog Gets in Your Eyes, a take-off on Jerome Kern and Otto Harbach's song Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, with a joke on how the California city of Van Nuys got its name. Enjoy!
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Comedian and writer Jeff Rothpan is originally from Montreal. His comedy career began when he was just 16 years old. Soon after
that he moved to Los Angeles and worked hard to perfect his comedy.
He hit his stride by the time he turned 23 and landed an appearance on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. These days Jeff is one of the busiest comedy writers in LA, working
on TV shows, films and providing material for Jeff Dunham, whom Forbes
magazine consistently ranks as one of the top grossing comedians in the
United States.
In this video clip from the Winnipeg Comedy Festival, Jeff jokes about his appearance, his parents, his Bar Mitzvah, and his wife. Enjoy! A SPECIAL NOTE FOR NEW EMAIL
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It's been 20 years since computer users worldwide started to plug in the small flash drives (also known as thumb drives or memory sticks) into USB sockets on their laptop or desktop computers.
It's not well known that this device was invented in 2000 by Dov Moran, an Israeli entrepreneur, inventor, and investor. But it's only one of many hardware and software inventions that originated in Israel. In this video, Dov Moran sits down with
the ISRAEL21c video network to talk about his life, the early days of Israel start-ups,
how he became an entrepreneur, and what Israeli life was like in the
1950's.
Enjoy, and kvell!
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It's another
Monday, and it's time for another joke to start the week. Here comes another
one from Toronto's Jewish Folks
Telling Jokes, a night of comedy to benefit Jewish
Family and Child, one of the foremost Jewish service agencies in North
America.
We
previously posted a few jokes that were told at the event, a Canadian
contribution to the world of Jewish humor, probably inspired by the
off-Broadway show Old
Jews Telling Jokes, still touring around the USA.
We'll be posting more of these jokes on upcoming Mondays. Here's another one, told by David Goldstein. Here's
the setup: These two old friends are talking, and one says "How's your daughter, the one who's married to the surgeon?" "Oh, she's doing terrific, fine." And then... Enjoy!
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Drew Goldberg, who uses his childhood nickname Binsky when he travels, is close to achieving his goal of visiting
each of the 193 countries recognized by the United Nations. In just a
few months, the 28-year-old will have done it.
It started when he spent part of his college junior year in Prague after a Birthright trip to Israel. Then he got hooked on travel and never stopped.
Goldberg grew up in a Jewish family in Scottsdale, Arizona. He
attended Temple Chai, a Reform congregation, where he had his bar
mitzvah.
After graduating with an economics degree from the University of
Wisconsin-Madison, Goldberg took a job teaching English in South Korea.
He created a travel blog to document his experience traveling throughout
Asia over the next 18 months.
Goldberg makes a point of visiting Jewish communities in the
countries he visits, and he says traveling has helped him connect with
his Jewish identity. He has visited Jewish communities in Afghanistan,
Turkmenistan, Ethiopia and the Philippines.
“I feel more connected with the religion from a global perspective
because I’ve really gone in the houses of Jews around the world,” he
said.
We'll share some of his videos in the next few weeks, starting today with his video report about meeting Mike Hanopol, the Filipino Jewish rock star. Enjoy! A SPECIAL NOTE FOR NEW EMAIL SUBSCRIBERS:
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Today we welcome Shabbat with a choir from Temple Sinai in Toronto, Ontario. Their version of Shalom Aleichem is the 36th that we've posted in our welcoming Shabbat series. It was recorded last November at the installation of Rabbi Jordan Shaner and Cantor Sharon Brown-Levy.
Enjoy, and Shabbat shalom!
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With all the glitz and glamour associated with the Academy Awards coming up on February 9, we're going back 90 years to take a look at the laid back awards announcement that was made in awarding the Oscars for best performances in 1930. It was a year that saw two Jewish nominees walk away with the coveted gold statuette. Norma Shearer received the Oscar for her Best Actress performance in The Divorcee. And Producer Carl Laemmle, the founder of Universal Pictures, took home the award for All Quiet on the Western Front as Best Picture. As P.J. Grisar wrote in The Forward,
Norma Shearer, a Canadian-American actress who converted to Judaism in
1927 to marry MGM mogul Irving Thalberg, holds the distinction of being
not only the first Jewish woman to win an Oscar, but the first performer
overall. (Writers Benjamin Glazer, Ben Hecht, Joseph W. Farnham, né
Frohman, and director Lewis Milestone, né Lieb Milstein, were the first
Jewish winners in the first Oscars ceremony.)
Oscar winner producer Carl Laemmle was born in 1867 to a Jewish family in Laupheim, in the German Kingdom of Württemberg. In 1906, Laemmle quit his job and started one of the first motion picture theaters in Chicago. Laemmle remained connected to his home town of Laupheim throughout his
life, providing financial support to it and also by sponsoring hundreds
of Jews from Laupheim and Württemberg to emigrate from Nazi Germany to the United States in the 1930s, paying both emigration and immigration fees, thus saving them from the Holocaust. Let's go back to 1930 and watch these two members of the entertainment world receive their awards. A SPECIAL
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Just Published: The Kustanowitz Kronikle - 35 Years of Purim Parody
Every Purim for the past 35 years we have published a Purim parody edition of The Kustanowitz Kronikle, covering virtually every aspect of Jewish life, and including parodies of hundreds of popular movies. This year we decided to retire the series and capture all the fun in a book that's just been published and is available at Amazon.com. It has every Purim issue of The Kustanowitz Kronikle from 1988 through 2022 in a full-color, full-size paperback book with hilarious headline stories and parody movie picks. Here are a few examples: TRUMP, NETANYAHU SWAP ROLES, COUNTRIES; NEW TALMUD VOLUME "VOTIN" FOUND IN IRAQ; JOINS "FRESSIN", "NAPPIN", TANTZEN","PATCHEN"; "JUDAICARE" PROGRAM PLANNED TO ENSURE THAT ALL JEWS HAVE SYNAGOGUE MEMBERSHIP; RABBIS CREATE TALMUD AMERICANI; NEW LAWS EXTEND HALACHA TO THANKSGIVING AND JULY 4; JEWISH ORGANIZATIONS WORLDWIDE UNITE TO STOP GLOBAL WARMING; FOCUS ON REDUCING HOT AIR; RABBIS TO REQUIRE SHECHITA FOR MANY FRUITS AND VEGETABLES
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"Jewish Traces in Unexpected Places" is now available on Amazon.com in paperback and Kindle editions
This book presents 150 anecdotes and associated video clips that reveal the myriad ways that Jewish culture, religion, humor, music, song, and dance have found expression in parts of the world that, at first glance, might not seem supportive of Jewish Life. It includes 50 videos of Hava Nagila being performed from Texas to Thailand, from India to Iran, and from Buenos Aires to British Columbia. Also highlighted are 34 international versions of Hevenu Shalom Aleichem, Adon Olam, Abanibi, and Tumbalalaika. Whether you’re reading the print version and typing in the video URLs or reading the e-book version and clicking on the links, you’ll have access to 150 video clips totaling more than 10 hours of video. Enjoy!
"Israel is a Funny Country" is now available on Amazon.com in paperback and Kindle editions
This book explores the multifaceted nature of humor in Israel, some of which is intentional and some of which is unintentional. Either way, the quirks of Israeli life contribute to making that life interesting and fulfilling. In the pages of this volume, we take a look at humorous slices of Israeli life, Israeli comedy, satire and parody, funny TV commercials, unusual stories about food, surprising rabbinic bans on daily activities, simchas as they can only be celebrated in Israel, and endearing aspects of Israeli culture. There are more than 120 anecdotes and links to video clips totaling more than six hours of video. We hope that these anecdotes and video clips give you a new and different insight into life in Israel, and encourage you to join in the fun by planning a visit to the land flowing with milk and honey.
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He earned his bachelor's and master's degrees from the City University of New York and taught computer science courses at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University. He is a member of the Advisory Board of the International Association of Yiddish Clubs.
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