Rebbetzin Rivka Leah Zelwig Talks About Health - A Parody

She's back again. We haven't seen "Rebbetzin Rivka Leah Zelwig" aka actress and comedian Danielle Jacobs for awhile, but she's back with another funny commentary about being healthy. We've posted her funny Pesach preparation video and others on Purim and Chanukah in previous years.

Now she's back in character with a few timely tips on staying healthy. Enjoy!

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Here Come the Rosh Hashanah Videos - "Apples and Honey are Good"

Apples and Honey are popular this year in Rosh Hashanah music videos. And a few music videos are using Honey, I'm Good, the song made popular by Andy Grammer, as the basis for a holiday parody.

With only two days until Rosh Hashanah, we picked this video as the best of the bunch. It's by Erez Cohen and features a large cast of characters, including juggler Sam Jacobs and cameo appearances by Hebrew rapper Kosha Dillz and Danielle Jacobs as Rebbetzin Rivka Leah Zelwig, whose hilarious videos we've featured on Jewish Humor Central. 

You'll find the lyrics just below the video.

Enjoy and Shabbat Shalom!

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APPLES & HONEY ARE GOOD LYRICS:
Chorus:
Apples and honey are good
Wanna dip another but I probably should not
I’ve got so many at home
And if I stay I might just eat em ‘all

Apples and honey are good
Wanna dip another but I probably should not
So I’ve gotta bid them adieu
May your year be sweet and new
(Sweet and New)

Verse 1:
It's been a long, long year for Jews everywhere
Now the holiday season's in the air, (I’m singin' like)
I can't wait for the New Year feast tonight
Cuz in 10 more days we won’t eat a bite (Yom Kippur, like)

Oh baby, Oh maybe,
Could start this year right, baby,
my King has already got all of my love

CHORUS

Verse 2:
Oh we eat the head and not the tail
So we’ll be our best and never fail (now check it out)
I've got G-d and He's got me
So I’ll throw my sins to the fish in the sea (Singin’ like)

Oh baby, oh maybe
I’ve got no more wrongs, baby
my King has already got all of my love

CHORUS

Bridge:

Oh the shul is, shul is all dressed up in white
Oh, That Shofar, sound it makes me feel so alive
So Alive!

Rebbetzin Rivka Leah Zelwig Gets Tangled Up While Sukkah Hopping - Part 2

On Sunday we posted the first part of a video of actress and comedian Danielle Jacobs in the role of accident-prone Rebbetzin Rivka Leah Zelwig, as she attempts to sukkah hop around her neighborhood.

We said it was funny, but some readers disagreed. That's understandable, because the funny part is not the introduction to the video that we posted, but the improv dialogue that the "rebbetzin" delivers while trying to explain some of the bizarre drawings and wall hangings in the sukkot that she visits.

So here is Rivka Leah in full satire mode, speaking in what to some readers will be a funny parody of speech patterns that they recognize as a blend of English, Hebrew, Yiddish, and Yeshivish (a dialect that is similar to Yiddish but that has unique qualities, some of which we discussed in one of our first blog posts.) 

Enjoy, and have a happy Shemini Atzeret and Simchat Torah and Shabbat shalom. We'll be in shul and at a huge kiddush this weekend before returning to our regular mix of Jewish humor on Sunday.

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Rebbetzin Rivka Leah Zelwig Goes Sukkah Hopping (With the Help of Siri) - Part 1 of 2

She's back. Yes, "Rebbetzin Rivka Leah Zelwig" aka actress and comedian Danielle Jacobs is back with a funny Sukkot episode. We've posted her funny Pesach preparation video and others on Purim and Chanukah in previous years.

This is part one of a two-part video. We'll post the second part later in the week.

In part one, she takes direction from her iPhone assistant, Suri, in finding the location of the sukkot on her sukkah hop.

In part two, the "Rebbetzin", speaking in a mock Yeshivish dialect, stumbles verbally and physically as she tries to show her daughter Chanele (never seen but presumably videotaping the shtick) the meaning of the decorations in a few sukkot that her iPhone assistant, Suri, leads her to.

The fact that she doesn't understand some of the decorations doesn't faze her as she finds a way to spin the meaning of a wall of mustached figures and other unconventional sukkah decorations.

 Stay tuned and enjoy!

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