Welcoming Shabbat with Yedid Nefesh by the Tandu Musical Group

One of our favorite singing groups has been The Fountainheads, an ensemble of young Israeli dancers, singers, actors and artists, all graduates and students of the Ein Prat Academy for Leadership, who have have joined forces to create new Jewish artistic content for today's Jewish World. 

 

Since 2011, we have posted 12 of their videos to great acclaim from Jewish Humor Central readers. But time passes, and groups drift apart. But the four seasoned original members of The Fountainheads stayed together in friendship, forming a new group called Tandu, performing Israeli classics and new compositions in different styles including folk, soul, and jazz.

 

Based in Jerusalem, Tandu is bringing back the soul to the music by collaborating between different styles from ethnic to classics, and to pop too.

 

Today we welcome another Shabbat with Tandu's version of Yedid Nefesh. 

 

Enjoy, and Shabbat shalom!

 

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Throwback Thursday Comedy Special: Stiller and Meara in "Couples Arguing" on The Ed Sullivan Show

Stiller and Meara (Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara) were a husband-and-wife comedy duo that was popular primarily in the 1960s and 1970s. They made frequent appearances on television variety shows such as The Ed Sullivan Show.

A lot of their humor focused on their different religious backgrounds, but actually Meara converted to Reform Judaism six years after marrying Stiller.

In this video clip from 1967, Jerry and Anne, as Hershey Horowitz and Mary Elizabeth Doyle, give advice to couples about how to deal with arguments.

Enjoy!

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Wacky Wednesday Comedy Showcase: Sam Levenson on Sending Kids to Camp

Sam Levenson (1911-1980) was one of the most popular Jewish comedians on television from the 1940s through the 1970s. He was a panelist on The Price is Right, What's My Line, and Password. He had his own show, The Sam Levenson Show, hosted the game show Two For the Money, and appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show 22 times.

His Jewishness was apparent from his speech and his stories about his large immigrant family in Brooklyn. It came through most clearly in his recordings of growing up Jewish in New York.

When we posted a Levenson story back in 2014 there were no video clips available, so the video on our post was a 78 rpm turntable spinning with audio background. Recently some videos have become available that we'll be sharing with you in the coming weeks and months.

Today's post is one of Levenson's appearances on the Ed Sullivan Show in which he delights the audience with his commentary about the joys of sending kids to camp. Enjoy!

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Jewish Traces in Unexpected Places - Hava Nagila by Music Conservatory of Grand Canary Island

Grand Canary Island, a province of Spain, is situated 93 miles off the coast of Morocco and about 840 miles from Europe. But its remote location doesn't prevent it from having a wide variety of cultural and musical attractions: classical music, opera and Zarzuela, theatre, dance, jazz, music from Africa and the Americas, cinema and video to be enjoyed nearly every month of the year as part of international festivals.

Earlier this year the wind and percussion section of the Grand Canary Music Conservatory gave a performance of Hava Nagila. Today we're sharing the video of their performance, the 101st version of Hava Nagila that we've posted since we started Jewish Humor Central 12 years ago.

Enjoy!

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A Joke to Start the Day - "A Wise Professor"

It's another Monday and time for another Joke to Start the Week. This week we're posting another 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 we're sharing one of the family-friendly ones with you today. 

Here's the setup: A college physics professor is giving a lecture to his class when one of the students who has been having a particularly difficult time with the course raises his hand. And then...

Enjoy!

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Yiddish Word of the Day: Little Things

Last year the Forverts 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 2020. Now that the Forverts is continuing the series, we'll continue sharing some of the words and phrases as a regular feature of Jewish Humor Central.

Today we get to learn the Yiddish words and phrases to describe little things.

Enjoy!

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Welcoming Shabbat with Lecha Dodi by Dudu Fisher and the Great Cantors

Today we welcome Shabbat with a performance of Lecha Dodi in a concert at the Mann Auditorium (Heichal Hatarbut) in Tel Aviv. The singers are Dudu Fisher and Cantors Yakov Motzen, Shlomo Simcha, and Avreimi Roth.

The Rishon Lezion Symphony Orchestra is conducted by maestro Elli Jaffe.

Enjoy, and Shabbat shalom!

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Throwback Thursday Comedy Showcase: It's December 23! Happy Festivus to All of Our Readers!

Festivus is a secular holiday celebrated on December 23 as an alternative to the pressures and commercialism of the Christmas season. 

Originally created by author Daniel O'Keefe, Festivus entered popular culture after it was made the focus of the 1997 Seinfeld episode "The Strike", which O'Keefe's son, Dan O'Keefe, co-wrote.  

The non-commercial holiday's celebration, as depicted on Seinfeld, occurs on December 23 and includes a Festivus dinner, an unadorned aluminum Festivus pole, practices such as the "Airing of Grievances" and "Feats of Strength", and the labeling of easily explainable events as "Festivus miracles." The episode refers to it as "a Festivus for the rest of us".

It has been described both as a parody holiday festival and as a form of playful consumer resistance. Journalist Allen Salkin describes it as "the perfect secular theme for an all-inclusive December gathering".

Here is the episode of Seinfeld that started this whole mishegas. Enjoy! 

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Wacky Wednesday Comedy Showcase: Myron Cohen on Soup, Psychiatrists, and the Garment Industry

Earlier this year we posted an old Myron Cohen routine that got a lot of likes, so today we're posting another one of his routines that we found in the same treasure trove of video clips from The Ed Sullivan Show. 

Let's turn the clock back 61 years to 1960 for a few minutes with this legendary comedian masking his perfect English diction with a Yiddish accent.

Cohen is a perfect example of comedy depending on timing and delivery and he was a master of both. His jokes are better described as funny very short stories with a twist. In this segment he moves effortlessly through jokes about a fly in the soup, psychiatrists, and the garment industry.

Enjoy!

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Tovah Feldshuh is Dr. Ruth Westheimer in a New Show About Her Life at the Museum of Jewish Heritage

93-year-old Dr. Ruth Westheimer is well known as a sex therapist, talk show host, author, professor, Holocaust survivor, and former Haganah sniper. 

Her life story is being portrayed in Becoming Dr. Ruth, a limited-run show at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in Battery Park in lower Manhattan. 

The one-woman show, written by Mark St. Germain and directed by Bay Street Theater’s Artistic Director Scott Schwartz, chronicles the life of Dr. Ruth, from her early years fleeing Nazi Germany, living as an orphan in Switzerland, to her service in the Israeli armed forces as a sharpshooter, and her later life and career in New York. 

Actress Tovah Feldshuh has transformed herself into a replica of Dr. Ruth for this performance, which runs through January 2.

Dr. Ruth and Feldshuh have been longtime friends, as revealed in this joint interview that appeared on the NY1 TV station last week.

Enjoy!

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A Joke to Start the Week - "Issy Loves Ada"

It's another Monday and time for another Joke to Start the Week. Today Mickey Greenblatt is back with another good one.

Marshal (Mickey) Greenblatt received degrees from Columbia (BA and BS in Flight Sciences), a DC from Von Karman Institute (1963) and his PhD from Princeton in Aerospace Sciences. He worked as a researcher for NASA and the Naval Research Laboratory. 

With four other scientists, he founded Fusion Systems Corporation, which invented microwave-powered UV lamps for drying coatings. He founded and served on the boards of technology companies and is active in volunteer work. He served on the executive committee of the Jewish Council for the Aging of Greater Washington for many years.

Mickey also loves Jewish jokes and sent us this one to share with you. Here's the setup: 

Issy Shapiro was 85 years old. He was getting so old that his children decided that he should go into a nursing home. And then...

Enjoy!

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Chasidic Comedian Mendy Pellin is Still Controlled by His iPhone, But Not by Siri

Mendy Pellin is our favorite Chasidic comedian. We've been running his shtick for ten years, and he keeps inventing new routines, from his Mendy Report on Chabad TV to the comedy midrash he created on the Jewbellish site that he co-founded.

Four years ago, Pellin posted a YouTube video explaining why he replaced his iPhone featuring Siri with a kosher phone in which his questions were answered by Avraham Fried, the Chasidic singer.

The answers were hilarious, guiding Pellin toward appropriate activities and away from anything remotely prohibited by Jewish law. The video also was used as a promotion for an event featuring Pellin and Fried.

Now Pellin has posted a follow-up video in which he asks more questions such as "What are the show times for West Side Story?" and gets answers like "I found a mincha on the West Side at 12:05 pm and 12:45 pm." 

We're posting both videos below. Enjoy!

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Welcoming Shabbat with "Mizmor Shir L'Yom HaShabbat" by Carmit Esther Shaham

Today we're welcoming Shabbat with Psalm 92, Mizmor Shir L'Yom HaShabbat. The song is part of the Kabbalat Shabbat service. It's sung here by Carmit Esther Shaham, an Israeli singer and songwriter, from her debut album of songs for Shabbat.

The Hebrew text of the first two verses of this liturgical poem is:

 טוֹב לְהֹדוֹת לַיהוָה
וּלְזַמֵּר לְשִׁמְךָ עֶלְיוֹן
לְהַגִּיד בַּבֹּקֶר חַסְדֶּךָ וֶאֱמוּנָתְךָ בַּלֵּילוֹת

The English translation is:
It is a good thing to give thanks unto the Lord, and to sing praises unto Thy name, O Most High; 

To declare Thy lovingkin​dness in the morning, and Thy faithfuln​ess in the night seasons.

Enjoy, and Shabbat shalom!

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Throwback Thursday Comedy Special: Stiller and Meara in "Mother's Day" on the Ed Sullivan Show

Stiller and Meara (Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara) were a husband-and-wife comedy duo that was popular primarily in the 1960s and 1970s. They made frequent appearances on television variety shows such as The Ed Sullivan Show.

A lot of their humor focused on their different religious backgrounds, but actually Meara converted to Reform Judaism six years after marrying Stiller.

In this video clip from 1967, Jerry and Anne, as newlyweds Hershey Horowitz and Mary Elizabeth Doyle, make plans for inviting their Jewish and Irish mothers to spend Mother's Day with them.

Enjoy!

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Wacky Wednesday Comedy Showcase: Jerry Lewis Shows Ed Sullivan How To Introduce A Guest in 1961

The Ed Sullivan Show was a television variety program that aired on CBS from 1948-1971. For 23 years it aired every Sunday night and played host to the world's greatest talents. 

The Ed Sullivan Show is well known for bringing rock n' roll music to the forefront of American culture through acts like Elvis Presley, The Beatles, and The Rolling Stones. 

The entertainers each week ranged from comedians like Joan Rivers and Rodney Dangerfield, to Broadway stars Julie Andrews and Richard Burton, to pop singers such as Bobby Darin and Petula Clark. 

It also frequently featured stars of Motown such as The Supremes, The Temptations, Stevie Wonder and The Jackson 5. The Ed Sullivan Show was one of the only places on American television where such a wide variety of popular culture was showcased and its legacy lives on to this day.

Sixty years ago, comedian Jerry Lewis made an appearance on the show, and after a lackluster introduction by Sullivan, Lewis gave him a lesson in the proper way to introduce a guest on his show.

Enjoy!

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Yiddish Word of the Day - Theatre

The Forverts series of short informal video clips called Yiddish Word of the Day is still going strong.

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 2020. Now that the Forverts is continuing the series, we're sharing some of the words and phrases as a regular feature of Jewish Humor Central.

Today we're exploring words and expressions involving the theatre. All the world's a stage, and now you can talk about it in Yiddish.
 
Enjoy! 

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A Joke to Start the Week - "Chassidic Marriage Broker"

It's another Monday and time for another Joke to Start the Week. This week we're posting another 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 we're sharing one of the family-friendly ones with you today. 

Here's the setup: A Chassidic couple is very concerned that their 30-year-old son has not gotten married. So they call in a marriage broker. And then...

Enjoy!

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Koolulam Salutes Bravery of Israel's Medical Crews Fighting Covid-19

Koolulam is the singing project that brings Israelis from all walks of life who hadn't met before to sing popular songs together.

Koolulam has been bringing people together for four years. It's a social-musical initiative aimed at strengthening the fabric of society.

The project centers around mass singing events in which large groups of non-professionals come together to form a single collaborative musical creation. Koolulam brings together people from all walks of life to do one thing: stop everything for a few hours and just sing – together. At b, the audience is the artist.

Every participant enters as a unique individual and comes out, while still unique, as a part of a larger whole.
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For every Koolulam event, a different well-known song is chosen to be performed. The musical team works hard toward each event, putting together a fresh and innovative arrangement of the chosen song. They write new instrumental arrangements as well as an original three-part vocal arrangement.

On Israel’s 73rd Independence Day, Koolulam gathered around 300 of Israel’s medical crews to salute their bravery with facing Covid-19 and to sing the Shlomo Artzi song Tetaaru Lahem (Imagine Yourselves) together at the Torch-Lighting Ceremony on Mt. Herzl.

The English translation appears below.

Enjoy! 

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ne yourselves a beautiful world

Less sad than it is

And we are walking there with the sun in our pockets

And above the rooftops, The stars

And the time goes by fearless

And I am going to meet her in heaven

 

Imagine yourselves some joy

Beacause it is so rare around here

A cool city in the dark and both of us under the blanket

She caresses me and says

Whatever you wanted will happen tomorrow

And she is full of reflactions of sadness and happiness

 

Imagine yourselves in a middle of a beautiful day

The sky is above you, The love is with you

Yes, That's the way it happened, suddenly she said

I can still remember her, like in a storm

Imagine yourselves me falling into her arms

 

Imagine yourselves a simple world, a room for a night, a house in the rain

Tree scents filled with strawberries, And both of us are drunk

"If we ever break up i'll die", she whispers nervously

Imagine yourselves another chance of suddenly returning to youth

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Teta'aru Lachem (תתארו לכם)

Imagine Yourselves

תתארו לכם עולם יפה

Imagine yourselves a beautiful world

פחות עצוב ממה שהוא ככה

Less sad than it is

ואנחנו שם הולכים עם שמש בכיסים

And we are walking there with the sun in our pockets

ומעל גגות, הכוכבים

And above the rooftops, The stars

והזמן עובר בלי פחד

And the time goes by fearless

ואני הולך לפגוש אותה בגן העדן

And I am going to meet her in heaven

תתארו לכם קצת אושר

Imagine yourselves some joy

כי הוא כל כך כל כך נדיר כאן

Beacause it is so rare around here

עיר מגניבה בתוך החושך ושנינו בשמיכה

A cool city in the dark and both of us under the blanket

והיא מלטפת אותי ואומרת לי

She caresses me and says

"מחר יקרה מה שרצית"

Whatever you wanted will happen tomorrow

והיא מלאה השתקפויות של עצב ושמחה

And she is full of reflaction­s of sadness and happiness

תתארו לכם באמצע יום יפה

Imagine yourselves in a middle of a beautiful day

שמיים מעליכם, האהבה איתכם

The sky is above you, The love is with you

כן, ככה זה קרה, לפתע היא אמרה

Yes, That's the way it happened, suddenly she said

אני עוד זוכר אותה, כמו בסערה

I can still remember her, like in a storm

תתארו לכם אותי נופל לתוך זרועותיה

Imagine yourselves me falling into her arms

תתארו לכם עולם פשוט, חדר ללילה, בית בגשם

Imagine yourselves a simple world, a room for a night, a house in the rain

ריחות עצים מלאים בתות, ושנינו שיכורים

Tree scents filled with strawberri­es, And both of us are drunk

"אם נפרד אני אמות", היא לוחשת וגועשת

"If we ever break up i'll die", she whispers nervously

תתארו לכם עוד הזדמנות לחזור פתאום לנעורים

Imagine yourselves another chance of suddenly returning to youth

תתארו לכם את החיים, זזים אחורה וקדימה

Imagine yourselves life, moving backwards and forward

מה שחסר שוב מתמלא, מה שהיה פתאום ישנו

Whatever is missing is getting filled again, Whatever once was is now here

ואני מביט לתוך עיניה ונגנב בכוח פנימה

And I look into her eyes and lose my mind from the power within

תתארו לכם אותנו מגשימים את כל החלומות

Imagine yourselves us fulfilling all of our dreams

תתארו לכם באמצע יום יפה...

Imagine yourselves in the middle of a beautiful day...

תתארו לכם עולם יפה, פחות עצוב ממה שהוא ככה

Imagine yourselves a beautiful world

ואנחנו שם הולכים, עם שמש בכיסים

Less sad than it is

(תתארו לכם עולם יפה, עיר בתוך החושך)

And we are walking there with the sun in our pockets

עולם פשוט, תתארו לכם קצת אושר

(Imagine yourselves a beautiful world, A city in the dark)