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!
Shir is a Jewish music group playing music of the Jewish Diaspora and Israel: Klezmer, Israeli, Yiddish, Sephardi, Mizrahi, Ladino and Simcha music.
Shir has performed in festivals in the UK
and Europe include Klezmer In The Park (London), Santander International
Music Festival (Santander, Spain), Sephardic International Music
(Cordoba, Spain), Festival Veranos De La Villa (Madrid, Spain),
Barcelona and the Amsterdam Jewish Music Festival (Holland).
Today we're sharing their version of Shalom Aleichem.
Enjoy, and Shabbat shalom!
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We're big fans of the Buddy Hackett
and have posted many of his sessions on the Johnny Carson Show.
But
it's always a challenge to find his jokes and conversations that are
family-friendly for us to share.We keep looking for new
posts and we found one! Buddy and Johnny are long gone, but every now
and then a video clip comes to the surface.
Today we're turning the clock back to 1975 (Yes, that's 45 years ago) when Buddy made an appearance on the Johnny Carson Show with Roy Rogers. The subject was multiple marriages and Buddy didn't disappoint.
Enjoy!
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The year was 1966. Yes, that's 54 years ago. Milton Berle was hosting on The Hollywood Palace when Henny Youngman started to heckle him from the balcony.
Heckling Berle was a regular activity during the 1960s and 1970s, starting when Berle hired comedian Irving Benson to look down from the balcony overlooking the stage of
Berle's variety show and
banter with Berle about the host's alleged lack of talent and
originality.
Youngman and Benson heckled on Berle's shows The Hollywood Palace and The Milton Berle Show. The heckling routine was picked up years later by the muppet characters Statler and Waldorf on The Muppet Show.
Enjoy!
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Last week The Forward held its first Come As You Are Gala as an online streaming event.
Comedians, celebrities, politicians and Forward
journalists gathered on screen for a light-hearted evening in these
uncertain times.
A highlight of the evening was a presentation by Yiddish actors Yelena Shmulenson and Allen Lewis Rickman on how we can learn a lot about Jewish culture by looking at the Yiddish language and how many words there are for the same thing.
For example, in Japan there are many words for snow, and French has many words for romance. So what about Yiddish? In Yiddish there are eight words for son, and eight words for unfortunately. But where the Yiddish language shines is with its 46 synonyms for the word imbecile!
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It's another Monday and time for another Joke to Start the Week. This week we're posting a joke from Dr. Jay Orlikoff, a retired dentist from Centereach, New York, a community on Long
Island in Suffolk County.
After a distinguished and meritorious dental career, he is shifting his focus to telling and posting jokes on YouTube. We were fortunate to find some of his jokes and are sharing one of the family-friendly ones with you today.
Here's the setup: A guy goes to his doctor and says "Doc, I need your help. My wife is losing her hearing." And then...
Enjoy!
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As people
continue to spend their days and evenings at home, due to coronavirus social
distancing restrictions, the Forverts has launched a series of
short informal video clips called Yiddish Word of the Day.
The series,
written and narrated by Forverts editor Rukhl Schaechter, aims to give
non-Yiddish speakers an introduction to familiar Yiddish words and phrases and
how they might be used in everyday situations.
Schaechter, who was appointed the new editor of the Forverts in 2016, is
the first woman to helm the paper in its 119-year history, its first
editor to have been born in the United States, and likely its first editor
who is shomeret Shabbat.
We posted the
first
of this series in May. Now that the Forverts is continuing the
series, we'll be sharing some of the words and phrases as a regular feature of
Jewish Humor Central.
Stinginess must have been rampant in the shtetls of Eastern Europe where the Yiddish language flourished. There are four (and maybe more) words that express stinginess and miserliness, not only with money but also with words and praise. Learn the differences and how to pronounce them in this video.
Enjoy!
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Congregation
Bnai Keshet, a Reconstructionist synagogue in Montclair, New Jersey,
like many synagogues around the world, isn't letting coronavirus
concerns getting in the way of community singing on Shabbat, even though
it has to be done remotely via Zoom sessions.
Bnai Keshet values both the unique
individual backgrounds and beliefs of its diverse members and its shared
historical traditions. They are an informal and respectful
community moved by prayer, fired by lively discussion, and enlivened by
laughter and song.
In this video, Bnai Keshet members sing a version of Ein Keiloheinu, the liturgical poem sung toward the end of the Shabbat Shacharit service.
Enjoy, and Shabbat Shalom!
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Ben Shapiro is an American conservative
political commentator, media host, bestselling author and attorney. At age 17, he became
the youngest nationally syndicated columnist in the United States.
He writes columns for Creators Syndicate, Newsweek, and Ami Magazine, serves as editor emeritus for The Daily Wire, which he founded, and hosts The Ben Shapiro Show, a daily political podcast and live radio show.
But at age 12 he seemed headed for an entirely different career. In 1996 he was featured at an Israeli Bonds banquet as a violinist. In this clip, Shapiro is introduced by Larry King and plays the theme from Schindler's List.
Enjoy!
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Have you been waiting for Sacha
Baron Cohen to revive his Borat character from Kazakhstan in a new
movie, or have you been hoping not to see any more of his outrageous but
hilarious antics again?
Well, the wait is over. This Friday, October 23 will mark the debut of Cohen's new movie streaming on Amazon Prime Video. The title is Borat Subsequent Movie Film: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American
Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan.
The movie — a direct sequel to Cohen’s 2006 film “Borat: Cultural
Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan” —
was secretly filmed and completed during the pandemic. Cohen was
recently spotted in Los Angeles dressed in character as Borat Sagdiyev, a
Kazakh journalist who was first introduced to audiences on “F2F” and
“Da Ali G Show.” He also made a secret appearance in June at a political rally, where he pranked the conservative audience into singing racist song lyrics.
In the film, Borat and his daughter carry on conversations in what's supposed to be the Kazhak language, but Borat is speaking in Hebrew while his daughter is speaking in Bulgarian.
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It's another
Monday, and time for another Joke to Start the week. Here's another one from
author and lecturer Michael Krasny.
Krasny
has been telling Jewish jokes since his bar mitzvah, and it’s been said that he
knows more of them than anyone on the planet. He certainly states his case in
his latest book Let
There be Laughter.
In promoting the book, Krasny has been giving lectures and interviews in which
he tells some of the classic Jewish jokes, explaining the cultural expressions
and anxieties behind the laughs.
We found some videos of these lectures, and today we're sharing another oldie
but goodie.
Here's the setup: A man goes for a walk with his grandson. They see a sign that says in huge block letters: "NO SWIMMING ALLOWED."
And then...
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As people
continue to spend their days and evenings at home, due to coronavirus social
distancing restrictions, the Forverts has launched a series of
short informal video clips called Yiddish Word of the Day.
The series,
written and narrated by Forverts editor Rukhl Schaechter, aims to give
non-Yiddish speakers an introduction to familiar Yiddish words and phrases and
how they might be used in everyday situations.
Schaechter, who was appointed the new editor of the Forverts in 2016, is
the first woman to helm the paper in its 119-year history, its first
editor to have been born in the United States, and likely its first editor
who is shomeret Shabbat.
We posted the
first
of this series in May. Now that the Forverts is continuing the
series, we'll be sharing some of the words and phrases as a regular feature of
Jewish Humor Central.
Noodles (lokshn in Yiddish) are more than just an ingredient in a sweet kugel and in chicken soup usually served at the Shabbat table. They appear as a metaphor in a variety of clever phrases and expressions that can be used on many occasions.
Enjoy!
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Today we welcome Shabbat with Yismechu, a song from the Shabbat liturgy, sung before a large audience in List Hall in Graz, Austria by Timna Brauer and her ensemble.
Timna Brauer is an Austrian-Israeli singer-songwriter, and the daughter of painter, writer and singer Arik Brauer. She collaborates with the Israeli pianist Elias Meiri. Both have Israeli roots.
Enjoy, and Shabbat shalom!
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Eddie Cantor sings "My Wife Is on a Diet" in the 1930 short subject
Getting a Ticket. He's been pulled over by a cop and tells the man he's
Eddie Cantor. Eddie has no identification with him, so naturally to
prove who he is, he sings a song.
In the song, Cantor details the hardship of having to eat grapefruit every day.
"No gravy and potatoes, just lettuce and tomatoes..." Not much has changed in the last 90 years.
Enjoy!
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Hava
Nagila continues to spread around the world. In the 11 years
that we've been bringing you Jewish Humor Central, we have posted 90 versions of this classic
Hebrew/Jewish song.
But there's always room for one more.Last month viewers of Shanson TV in Russia were treated to yet another production of Hava Nagila at the State Kremlin Palace.
It was a performance by Michael Yanis playing his accordion while a stage filled with dancers danced in front of a colorful kaleidoscopic background.
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As people
continue to spend their days and evenings at home, due to coronavirus social
distancing restrictions, the Forverts has launched a series of
short informal video clips called Yiddish Word of the Day.
The series,
written and narrated by Forverts editor Rukhl Schaechter, aims to give
non-Yiddish speakers an introduction to familiar Yiddish words and phrases and
how they might be used in everyday situations.
Schaechter, who was appointed the new editor of the Forverts in 2016, is
the first woman to helm the paper in its 119-year history, its first
editor to have been born in the United States, and likely its first editor
who is shomeret Shabbat.
We posted the
first
of this series in May. Now that the Forverts is continuing the
series, we'll be sharing some of the words and phrases as a regular feature of
Jewish Humor Central.
Today's Yiddish words of the day are the terms used to describe a mother-in-law and father-in-law, and the terms used by each set of in-laws to refer to their counterparts. Enjoy!
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Bob Alper is an ordained Reform rabbi from Vermont who served congregations
for fourteen years and holds a doctorate from Princeton
Theological Seminary.
But he's also a stand-up comedian with a twenty-seven year comedy
career. He presents wonderfully unique material in a way that's
intelligent, sophisticated, and 100% clean.
Since 2010 we have posted more than two dozen video clips of his stand-up routines. Now Bob has launched a new series of daily Quick Laughs that you can subscribe to.
Here's the setup for this quick laugh: An Israeli and an Arab find themselves in a skydiving plane. When it came time to jump, the Israeli went out first. And then...
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Here's a scene that's
unlikely to be repeated this year because of coronavirus lockdowns and
social distancing. But two years ago at Yeshivat Har Hamor in Jerusalem, hundreds of Yeshiva students joyfully participated in the annual second hakafot at the conclusion of Simchat Torah.
Yeshivat Har Hamor was founded in Jerusalem in the year 5758, by the pupils of Rabbi Zvi Yehuda Hacohen Kook. Hundreds of boys learn, day and night, all parts of the Torah, while also
combining military service.
At the conclusion of the one day celebration of Shemini Atzeret/Simchat Torah in Israel and the beginning of Simchat Torah in the Diaspora, there is a custom in
Israel to do Second Hakafot, during which people go into the streets
with Torah scrolls and dance another time.
The source of this custom is
attributed to Rabbi Hayyim ben Joseph Vital, who described the customs of his teacher, Isaac Luria, in Safed.
Vital explains Luria had the custom to visit a number of synagogues
after Simchat Torah, which delayed the end of the prayer services and
did Hakafot.
From there the custom spread to Hebron and the Beit El Synagogue in Jerusalem,
and subsequently spread to other congregations in Jerusalem before
becoming accepted across Israel. The custom spread from Israel to
communities in Italy and the Near East—Turkey, Baghdad, Persia, Kurdistan, and India.
Over the next few days we'll be observing a quiet Shabbat, Shemini Atzeret, and Simchat Torah while remembering joyous celebrations like this one and hoping for a return to normalcy next year.
Today's another
Throwback Thursday and we're turning the clock back 54 years to 1966 and
one of Alan King's 50 appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show.
In this segment King takes aim at the insurance industry in all of its forms and finds it an easy target, whether it's life insurance, accident, medical, travel, mortgage cancellation, water damage, fire and theft, or locust plague.
Enjoy!
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Attending High Holiday Services has been a real challenge in this year of coronavirus. We've all gotten used to wearing masks, social distancing, sanitizing with spray disinfectant, and wiping down surfaces.
But applying these new safety measures can result in some funny situations. Whether it's praying, eating, or blowing shofar, here are many ways in which our new reality has created hilarious scenarios of their usage.
Enjoy!
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As people
continue to spend their days and evenings at home, due to coronavirus social
distancing restrictions, the Forverts has launched a daily series of
short informal video clips called Yiddish Word of the Day.
The series,
written and narrated by Forverts editor Rukhl Schaechter, aims to give
non-Yiddish speakers an introduction to familiar Yiddish words and phrases and
how they might be used in everyday situations.
Schaechter, who was appointed the new editor of the Forverts in 2016, is
the first woman to helm the paper in its 119-year history, its first
editor to have been born in the United States, and likely its first editor
who is shomeret Shabbat.
We posted the
first
of this series in May. Now that the Forverts is continuing the
series, we'll be sharing some of the words and phrases as a regular feature of
Jewish Humor Central.
Today's Yiddish word of the day is zaftik, a word that has multiple meanings beyond the slang expression that we're most familiar with. Enjoy!
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Bob Alper is an ordained Reform rabbi from Vermont who served congregations
for fourteen years and holds a doctorate from Princeton
Theological Seminary.
But he's also a stand-up comedian with a twenty-seven year comedy
career. He presents wonderfully unique material in a way that's
intelligent, sophisticated, and 100% clean.
Since 2010 we have posted more than two dozen video clips of his stand-up routines. Now Bob has launched a new series of daily Quick Laughs that you can subscribe to.
In
this Quick Laugh, Bob tells the classic joke about an uncooperative cow in a small Eastern European shtetl.
Enjoy!
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Today we're welcoming both Shabbat and Yom Tov with a new version of Adon Olam by Toronto's Beth Radom Congregation.
Beth Radom, a.k.a. BRC or the Radomer Shul, is Toronto's
first Conservative synagogue which combines traditional and alternative
approaches, services and customs with a spiritual davening experience.
Their rendition of Adon Olam is set to the tune of Blinded by the Lights, a pop hit performed by The Weeknd and Pentatonix with millions of views online.
We'll be observing the first two days of Sukkot tomorrow and Sunday, and we'll be back with our usual mix on Monday.
Shabbat shalom and Chag Sameach!
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Burns and Allen was an American comedy duo consisting of George Burns and his wife, Gracie
Allen. They worked together as a successful comedy team that
entertained vaudeville, film, radio, and television audiences for over
forty years.
The duo met in 1922 and married in 1926.From 1950 to 1958 Burns and Allen appeared on TV in the Burns and Allen Show. Each show ended with a dialogue between Burns, who played the straight man and Allen, who played the scatterbrained wife.
In this episode, Gracie tells George all about her visit to the auto show. Enjoy!
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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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The Best of Jewish Humor Central - More than 400 video clips, including music and comedy videos for all the Jewish holidays. View them on Your PC, Mac, Kindle Fire, iPad, iPhone, iTouch, Android Tablet and Smartphone. Click on the image above to peek inside and download a free sample. And now, a paperback edition for anyone who prefers a traditional book and doesn't mind typing the URLs instead of clicking on them.
About the Publisher and Editor-in-Chief
A long-term devotee of Jewish humor, Al Kustanowitz has been collecting and sharing it even before there was an internet. In 2009, after a 36-year career at IBM managing new technology projects, he founded Jewish Humor Central (jewishhumorcentral.com. Through the blog he brings a daily dose of fun and positive energy to readers who would otherwise start the day reading news that is often drab, dreary, and depressing (subscribing is free). He has published 12 books on humor based on his more than 4,000 blog postings, each of which includes a video clip and his commentary.
He has presented more than 100 programs in South Florida and the Northeast on topics that include the great comedians and entertainers of the 20th century, funniest moments in film and television, flash mobs around the world, and composers and lyricists of the Great American Songbook.
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.
You can contact Al via email at akustan@gmail.com.
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