Michael Wex Explains the Difference Between a Mentsh and a Schmuck

There are people out there, millions of them, who act as if they still believe everything that their mothers told them in the first six months of their life: they're the nicest, most beautiful, most promising and intelligent bags of flesh ever to walk the earth, and anybody who can't see it is a jealous fool.

We call these people shmucks. In his book, How to Be a Mentsh (and Not a Shmuck), published by Harper Collins, bestselling author Michael Wex (Born to Kvetch and Just Say Nu) offers a wise and witty guide to being a good human being (A mentsh) regardless of your religion or beliefs—a blueprint for living a decent and moral life, acting with self-control instead of self-denial, and winning through cooperation rather than competition.

But this is no dull manual about loving thy neighbor. It's a fast-paced and entertaining adventure in the wisdom of the ages, wherever that wisdom may be found: Yiddish proverbs, current events, Talmudic stories, movies, television, and more. Referencing pop culture and Jewish tradition with equal ease, Wex explores the strategies developed by an oppressed people to pursue happiness with their dignity—and sense of humor—intact.

You can get the flavor of the book by reading a few pages from its Amazon listing. It's a very readable combination of humor, etymology, pop culture, and Jewish history.

Here's an interview with the author on WatchMojo.com, where he talks about the art of mentshlichkeit and how to avoid being a shmuck.

Enjoy!

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A Rabbi Walks into a Bar...But Tells Only Clean Jokes

Rabbi Bob Alper is a Reform rabbi. He is also a comedian who manages to enthrall audiences with clean jokes in nightclubs, synagogues, community centers and at private parties. 

Alper has released a DVD of his performances than runs 102 minutes, and includes a live performance, an interview, and 33 of his best jokes. He bills himself as the only practicing clergyman doing standup comedy...intentionally.

Alper, 71, started doing stand-up comedy in 1986 in Philadelphia. He's been at it ever since, doing about 60 shows a year across the USA. He served congregations for 14 years, but now only officiates at High Holy Day services in Philadelphia.

Here is a sample of one of his routines about his days at the seminary where he was ordained, the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati.

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Throwback Thursday Comedy Special: Sid Caesar and Carl Reiner - Professor Hocus von Pocus on Magic

It's another Throwback Thursday and it's time to turn back the clock to chuckle with Carl Reiner as the interviewer and Sid Caesar as Professor Hocus von Pocus informing us all on the subject of magic.

This skit appeared on Your Show of Shows on June 30, 1951, 55 years ago.

Enjoy!

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Pidyon Petter Chamor - "Jewish Donkey" Redeemed in Melbourne, Australia

In May, 2009, two members of the Adass Yisroel congregation in Melbourne, Australia, were studying Talmud, and came across the obscure mitzva of Pidyon Petter Chamor -- redeeming of a firstborn male donkey. 

Determined to perform this unique and rare mitzva, they located a female donkey that had not yet produced any offspring. Working with a breeder, they waited the 12 months of pregnancy, and finally the firstborn male donkey emerged.

Most of Melbourne's rabbinate attended the ceremony as did young and old from many of Melbourne's shuls and shteebels.

The five minute long video is fascinating to watch. The funniest part is when the rabbi says "It's unusual and difficult to find a Jewish donkey."

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Comedy Showcase: Joel Chasnoff on Selling Bartons Candy to His Neighbors

Joel Chasnoff redefines the meaning of Jewish comedy. A stand-up comic and best-selling author, Chasnoff is the only comedian who's also a veteran of the Israeli Army. His hilarious take on Jewish life is clean, hip, and wonderfully original; no wonder The Forward calls him the comedic voice of his generation.

A Chicago native, Chasnoff has performed at more than 1,000 fundraisers, universities, and festivals in nine countries. On the road, he was the warm-up act for Jon Stewart and Lewis Black of The Daily Show. He is also a frequent guest on NPR and has appeared on ABC, NBC, and Israeli late-night television. 

In this excerpt from one of his comedy presentations as an American Program Bureau speaker, Joel reflects on his humiliating experience of going door-to-door selling overpriced Passover candy to raise money for his Jewish Day School.

Enjoy!

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A Joke to Start the Week - "Major Airline Merger"

It's a hot July Monday, and we're spending it in the Berkshires on our annual summer lecture tour. But we still have time to post a weekly joke.

This is a very short one, so if you look away for an instant, you may miss the punch line.

Once again, we're lucky to have Michael Hirsch, an investment advisor for individuals and institutions, to deliver the joke.
 
Michael is a graduate of Brooklyn College, Class of '66. He attended Telshe Yeshiva during high school and Yeshiva Netzach Yisrael during college. When he's not telling jokes, Michael enjoys participating in triathlons.

Here's the setup for today's joke: There was a major announcement this week...a very, very large airline merger in Europe...

Enjoy!

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Comedy Showcase: Modi At Montreal Comedy Festival: A Jew Walks Into Home Depot...

Meet Modi Rosenfeld, professionally known as Modi.  He's not a newcomer to stand-up comedy, nor to acting on TV.  But we at Jewish Humor Central hadn't heard of him until he surfaced in a funny video about two Hassidic screenplay wannabes looking for Spielberg.
 
Modi has performed at Caroline’s on Broadway, The Comedy Cellar, Comic Strip Live and The Gotham Comedy Club. Modi has appeared on HBO’s The Sopranos, The Howard Stern Show, NBC’s Friday Night Videos, BET’s 10th Anniversary of Comic View, METRO Channel’s New Joke City with Robert Klein, and on Comedy Central’s USO Tour Live from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
 
In the video clip below, Modi is on stage at a Just For Laughs Festival in Montreal doing his stand-up routine.  The "Jew walks into Home Depot" bit begins at 5 minutes and 45 seconds into the act.  But it's worth waiting for. 

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Jewish Home Residents Celebrate 100 Years With New Version of Hinei Ma Tov

New Jersey's Jewish Home Family, now including The Jewish Home at Rockleigh, Jewish Home Assisted Living at River Vale, and Jewish Home at Home, recently celebrated its 100th anniversary of providing care to the community.

The organization, created in 1915 to take care of poor Jewish children whose families were stretched so thin that they relinquished them to an orphanage, the Hebrew Home in Jersey City, quickly became a refuge for the elderly as well.

To celebrate this achievement, the residents and staff of The Jewish Home facilities participated in a music video.

The song is a new version of the classic Hinei Ma Tov, (Behold, how good it is to be together) composed by Marc Rossio and produced by Uri Westrich.

Enjoy and Shabbat shalom!

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Throwback Thursday Comedy Special: Woody Allen on the Moose, the Costume Party, and the Berkowitzes

One aspect of Woody Allen's comic genius is his persistence at building a character that audiences can recognize and sympathize with. 

Drawing on his own Jewish family, he builds an image with stereotypical Jewish characteristics.

His jokes, stressing his own weakness and neuroses, and those of his family, can appear to be intellectual and anti-intellectual at the same time.

Here is one of his classic standup routines about the time he was hunting in Upstate New York and shot a moose.  

Enjoy!

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The Great Jewish Comedians: Ben Blue - Master of Pantomime

Ben Blue (1901-1975) was a Canadian-American actor and comedian. Born to a Jewish family as Benjamin Bernstein in Montreal, Quebec, Blue emigrated to Baltimore, Maryland at the age of nine, where he won a contest for the best impersonation of Charlie Chaplin. 

At the age of fifteen he was in a touring company and later became a stage manager and assistant general manager. He became a dance instructor and nightclub proprietor. In the 1920s Blue joined a popular orchestra, Jack White and His Montrealers. 

Blue left the band to establish himself as a solo comedian, portraying a bald-headed dumb-bell with a goofy expression. Producer Hal Roach featured him in his "Taxi Boys" comedy shorts, but Blue's dopey character was an acquired taste and he was soon replaced by other comedians. 

In 1951, Blue began concentrating on managing and appearing in nightclubs in Hollywood, San Francisco, and Reno. Blue and Maxie Rosenbloom owned and performed in Hollywood's top nightclub in the 1940s called "Slapsie Maxie's." In the 1960s he opened a nightclub in Santa Monica, California, called "Ben Blue's". It quickly became the "in" place and night after night was packed with top celebrities. Ben closed the club three years later because of health problems. He also made appearances in TV shows such as The Jack Benny Program and The Milton Berle Show.

Blue's film roles included many cameo appearances. In It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963), his role was the pilot of the biplane that flew Sid Caesar and Edie Adams, and he played Luther Grilk, the town drunk, in The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming (1966). His other film appearances included small roles in The Busy Body (1967), A Guide for the Married Man (1967) and Where Were You When the Lights Went Out? (1968). 

Here's Ben Blue in one of his pantomime skits on the Hollywood Palace TV show 50 years ago  (January 1, 1966).

Enjoy!

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Rabbi Ari Wolf, Cleveland Police Chaplain, Delivers Invocation at Republican National Convention

Rabbi Haskel Lookstein, the Modern Orthodox Rabbi who converted Ivanka Trump to Judaism in New York, was invited to deliver the invocation at the opening session of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland yesterday.

But he withdrew his participation due to political pressure from members of his congregation and former students. 

So the convention turned to Rabbi Ari Wolf, chaplain of the Cleveland Police Department and the Director of Administrative Services at the Haredi Telshe Yeshiva in Wickliffe, Ohio. Rabbi Wolf spoke at the start of the first day's proceedings, around 1 pm. 

If you weren't in the convention hall or watching on TV, here's another chance to see the invocation.

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A Joke to Start the Week - "An Expensive Hearing Aid"

It's Monday, and that means it's time for another Joke to Start the Week.

For today's joke, we once again turn to Michael Hirsch, who's become a Jewish Humor Central regular.

Michael, an investment advisor for individuals and institutions, is a graduate of Brooklyn College, Class of '66. He attended Telshe Yeshiva during high school and Yeshiva Netzach Yisrael during college. When he's not telling jokes, Michael enjoys participating in triathlons.

Here's the setup for today's joke: Three Jewish men are sitting down in a country club, and of course the discussion turns to some things they recently bought. And then...

Enjoy!

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The Great Jewish Comedians: Stubby Kaye Sings Political Satire in Li'l Abner

Bernard Solomon Kotzin (1918-1997), known as Stubby Kaye, was an American comic actor known for his appearances in Broadway and film musicals.

In 1939 he won the Major Bowes Amateur Hour contest on radio where the prize included touring in vaudeville, where he was sometimes billed as an "Extra Padded Attraction". During the Second World War he joined the USO where he toured battle fronts and made his London debut performing with Bob Hope. After the war he continued to work in vaudeville and as Master of Ceremonies for the swing orchestras of Freddy Martin and Charlie Barnet.

Directors viewed Kaye as a master of the Broadway idiom during the last phase of the musical comedy era. This was evidenced by his introduction of three show-stopping numbers of the era: “Fugue for Tinhorns” and “Sit Down, You’re Rockin’ the Boat” from Guys and Dolls (1950) and “Jubilation T. Cornpone” from Li'l Abner (1956). 

In 1953 he played in You Can't Run Away From It, a remake of It Happened One Night. Kaye is best known for defining the role of Nicely-Nicely Johnson in Guys and Dolls, first on Broadway and then in the film version. He also played Marryin' Sam in Li'l Abner, again on both stage and screen. In 1962, he played the title character in Michael Winner's The Cool Mikado.

In his role as Marryin' Sam in Li'l Abner, Kaye sang The Country's in the Very Best of Hands with Peter Palmer, who played the role of Abner. The song, a biting critique and parody of government and politics, is just as relevant today as when they sang it in 1959.

Enjoy!

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Jewish Traces in Unexpected Places: A Shalom Aleichem Welcome From a Chorale in Italy

Bova Marina is a municipality in the Italian province of Calabria.

It's the home of a Polyphonic Choir that was founded in 1989 by Maestro Aldo Gurnari, a figure of considerable prestige in the local music scene. 

The Chorale is responsible for organizing the festival "Voices in the Mediterranean", now in its third edition. It has a repertoire that ranges from the most classical pieces of sacred and secular music from the period between 1400 and 1800 to excerpts from the Byzantine liturgy to emphasize the importance that Greek celebrations have had in the past in the territory.

Somehow Shalom Aleichem, a traditional song to welcome Shabbat, has also found its way into their repertory. 

Enjoy, and Shabbat shalom!

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Throwback Thursday Comedy Special: Milton Berle is the Mystery Guest on "What's My Line"

Comedian Milton Berle was the mystery guest on the Sept. 11, 1960, episode of the popular panel program What's My Line?. Moderator John Charles Daly is joined by panelists Dorothy Kilgallen, Nick Adams, Arlene Francis, and Bennett Cerf.

The panel guessed his identity on their last try. At the time, Berle was given much praise for his role in the film Let's Make Love, starring Marilyn Monroe and Tony Randall.

Enjoy!

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The Great Jewish Comedians: The Three Stooges

The Three Stooges started in 1928 as part of a raucous vaudeville act called "Ted Healy and His Stooges" (also known as "Ted Healy and His Southern Gentlemen", "Ted Healy and His Three Lost Souls", "Ted Healy and His Racketeers", and "Ted Healy and His Three Stooges".) 

Moe Howard (born Moses Harry Horwitz) joined Healy's act in 1921, and his brother Shemp Howard (Samuel Horwitz) came aboard in 1923. In 1928, violinist-comedian Larry Fine (Louis Feinberg) and xylophonist-comedian Fred Sanborn also joined the group. In the act, lead comedian Healy would attempt to sing or tell jokes while his noisy assistants would keep "interrupting" him, causing Healy to retaliate with verbal and physical abuse.

In 1930, Ted Healy and His Stooges (including Sanborn) appeared in their first Hollywood feature film, Soup to Nuts, released by Fox Film Corporation. The film was not a critical success, but the Stooges' performances were singled out as memorable, leading Fox to offer the trio a contract minus Healy. 

The team appeared in 220 films. In the end, it is the durability of the 190 timeless short films the Stooges made at Columbia Pictures that acts as an enduring tribute to the comedy team. Their continued popularity worldwide has proven to even the most skeptical critics that their films are funny. American television personality Steve Allen went on record in the mid-1980s saying, "though they never achieved widespread critical acclaim, they achieved exactly what they had always intended to do: they made people laugh."

An extensive biography and filmography of the trio appears on tensive biography and filmography of the trio appears on Wikipedia.

Here's a look at a comic sequence, one of their most violent, from the 1943 movie They Stooge to Conga.

Enjoy!

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"Soon By You" Orthodox Singles Comedy Releases Second Episode

Back in May we posted the pilot episode of Soon By You, a new web comedy series that depicts the joys and challenges of Orthodox Jewish dating for young professional singles in New York City.

Your reactions to the comedy were very positive, and so we have been watching for new episodes to show up. This week we heard from the filmmakers who told us about the release of a second episode, which we're sharing with you today.

In the pilot episode titled The Setup, a rabbinical student named David accepts a blind date at a restaurant in Manhattan’s Upper East Side. While there he accidentally sits down across from Sarah Feldman, a free-spirited artist with whom he instantly connects, but that's not his date. Through a series of different events he’s eventually led to the “right” girl, also named Sarah, a larger than life superficial-type character, who is so caught up with ordering food and herself to actually catch the nuances and humor of his excuses that led him to be late.

This situation leads to a not-so-typical romantic encounter with David and Sarah F, who take short breaks from their respective dates to meet at the back of the restaurant, where they dream up mural ideas and finish each other’s sentences. It’s an example of a matchmakers' worst nightmare and how chemistry leads the way to a potential match. Get ready to cry, laugh, be amused, and, watch the "fun" filled life of Orthodox dating.

In the second episode, The Follow Up, David loses Sarah F's phone number. With the help of his roommate, Z, he is willing to do anything to find her. Two new characters are introduced and we spend more time with the original four characters. Our guess is that we will be following these six through a series of romantic adventures, that is if the filmmakers find sources of funds to continue producing the series.

Enjoy!

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