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!

Sunday, December 9, 2012

Mission Impossible? No, It's Mission Hanukkah - From France

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David el Shatran and his crew of singers and dancers in France have done it again with a creative mashup and parodies of music from Missi...
Friday, December 7, 2012

A Disney Hanukkah: Story and Song at Epcot Center

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If you happen to be in Walt Disney World's Epcot Center this month, you'll likely encounter Disney's tribute to Hanukkah. Eve...
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Thursday, December 6, 2012

Hanukkah Music Videos Turn Romantic with "Hanukkah Lovin'"

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The explosion of Hanukkah music videos over the last few years has given us lots of parodies, spoofs, and mashups of American pop songs w...
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Wednesday, December 5, 2012

Hanukkah Music Videos: A Good Old Down Home Country Chanukah

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We've seen just about every style of music represented in the stream of Hanukkah videos that suddenly appears at the end of November ...
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Tuesday, December 4, 2012

"Pass it On," New Chanukah Music Video, Focuses on Keeping the Flame Alive

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The What's Up Band , a Connecticut-based Jewish American Rock 'n Roll band, has just released a Chanukah music video titled Pass ...
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Monday, December 3, 2012

A Joke to Start the Week: Slicing the Lox

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It's Monday morning...time for another joke to start the week. Have you ever...or do you know anyone who would never take the top new...
Sunday, December 2, 2012

Six13 Adds Friends to Come Up With New Hanukkah Music Video

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The boy band Six13 has been composing, performing and recording original Jewish a cappella music for about nine years, including Chanu...
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Friday, November 30, 2012

How to Dress for an Ugly Sweater Hanukkah Party

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December always marks the arrival of loads of ugly tacky garish Christmas sweaters in department stores. So a Jewish entrepreneur asked w...
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Thursday, November 29, 2012

Israeli Technion Students, Inspired by Rube Goldberg, Build Menorah Lighting Contraption

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  Rube Goldberg (1883-1970) became famous for his highly detailed cartoons depicting extremely complicated contraptions that executed ver...
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Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Hanukkah Countdown 2012: Here Come the Music Videos

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In case you haven't noticed, Chanukah will be here in just ten days. The first candle is next Saturday night. In the world of Jewish ...
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Tuesday, November 27, 2012

Rita, Israel's Most Popular Singer, Builds Bridges to Iranian People with Her Farsi Music

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Rita Johanfaruz, known to most Israelis by her stage name Rita, has been called Israel's most popular singer. Born in Tehran 50 years...
Monday, November 26, 2012

A Joke to Start the Week: Looking For a Jewish Girl

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It's Monday morning and time for a joke to start the week. Once again we venture into the seemingly endless collection of Old Jews Te...
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Sunday, November 25, 2012

Tumbalalaika Around the World: Yiddish Song Surfaces in Italian Movie

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When we started a series a few weeks ago about the popularity of the Yiddish song Tumbalalaika we weren't sure where the road would...
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Friday, November 23, 2012

A Comedy Classic: Jack Benny and Mel Blanc in "What's in a Name?"

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It's not in HD color; it's black and white. The picture is grainy and the sound isn't great. But the comedy! They don't m...
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Thursday, November 22, 2012

Amazing Bottle Dancers Crash a Wedding

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Bottle dancing, a highlight of the wedding scene in Fiddler on the Roof , started long before the Broadway show and Hollywood film made...
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Wednesday, November 21, 2012

Ladino Comes Alive in the Song Stylings of Mor Karbasi

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Ladino, or Judeo-Spanish, was the language of the Sephardic Jews, similar to the way Yiddish was the language of the Eastern European J...
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Tuesday, November 20, 2012

"Deli Man" Documentary - A Mouth-Watering Tribute to Eastern European Jewish Cooking

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Erik Greenberg Anjou, director of two acclaimed documentaries focusing on the life of a cantor ( A Cantor's Tale ) and klezmer musici...
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Monday, November 19, 2012

A Joke to Start the Week: Victor Borge and His Barber

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Long before there was Old Jews Telling Jokes , there was The Funniest Joke I Ever Heard, a pair of 1984 television specials co-produced b...
Sunday, November 18, 2012

Announcing "Jewish Humor on Your Desktop": The Best of Jewish Humor Central in 7 New eBooks and Lectures

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A Message from the Blogger-in-Chief: After more than three years and 957 blog posts, Jewish Humor Central is expanding into new areas : e...
Friday, November 16, 2012

Rita Rudner: As Funny in Interview as She is on Stage

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Rita Rudner is one of our favorite comedians, as we mentioned in a blog post in January 2011 . She is one of the rare comedians who can k...
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Thursday, November 15, 2012

11-Year-Old Piano Virtuoso Plays My Yiddishe Mama

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When Ethan Bortnick was 8 years old, he was already being acclaimed as a piano virtuoso, and appeared wih all the popular TV hosts, inclu...
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