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Welcoming Shabbat with Ana B'Choach Sung by Deborah Yudelewicz
This week we welcome Shabbat with Ana b'Cho'ach, a liturgical poem from the Kabbalat Shabbat service that appears in the siddur just before Lecha Dodi. It's a Kabbalistic prayer composed by Rav Nehunia...
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Humor in Yiddish Phrases - A New Series - "A Goyishe Name from Ellis Island"
In our search for new faces and new sources of Jewish humor, we came across a series of posts by a ventriloquist who goes by the name of Dr. Allan and has a dummy named Chaim.Here's a post with Chaim...
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A Joke to Start the Week - "A Special Dog"
It's another Monday, and time for another Joke to Start the Week. This week we're sharing a joke from a collection of Jewish Folks Telling Jokes, a project of Toronto's Jewish Family and Child Service....
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Singer Yuval Raphael, Survivor of Nova Festival Massacre, to Represent Israel...
Singer Yuval Raphael, a survivor of the Hamas attack on the Nova music festival, will represent Israel at the 2025 Eurovision contest in May in Basel, Switzerland.As reported in The Times of Israel by...
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Wacky Wednesday Comedy Showcase: Husband on a Leash - Candid Camera Gold from...
Candid Camera was an American hidden camera/practical joke reality television series created and produced by Allen Funt, which initially began on radio as The Candid Microphone on June 28, 1947. After...
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Israeli Comedian Yohay Sponder on Airline and Post Office Greed
Social media sensation Yohay Sponder has gone viral with his charming and unapologetic comments on Jews in general, Israeli Jews specifically, and overall audience interaction on topics ranging from...
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Welcoming Shabbat with V'Shamru at Stephen Wise Temple in Los Angeles
V'shamru is a verse from the Torah that emphasizes the importance of observing the Sabbath. The text of the blessing is taken from the Book of Exodus (Exodus 31:16-17) and is recited as follows:...
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Yiddish Word of the Day - "Cold"
In 2020 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...
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A Joke to Start the Week - Blonde Football Logic
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...
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Author Michael Wex Analyzes Yiddish Curses and Jokes
Michael Wex is a Canadian novelist, playwright, translator, lecturer, performer, and author of books on language and literature.His specialty is Yiddish and his book Born to Kvetch was a surprise...
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Wacky Wednesday Comedy Showcase: Talking Horse on Candid Camera Gold
Candid Camera was a popular and long-running American hidden camera reality television series. Versions of the show appeared on television from 1948 until 2014. Originally created and produced by Allen...
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We Join Israeli Actress Noa Tishby in Wishing You a Happy Tu B'Shvat,
Today is Tu B'Shvat, the Israeli holiday that marks the New Year for Trees. We're joining Noa Tishby, Israeli activist, actress, model, producer, and writer in welcoming the holiday and publicizing...
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Welcoming Shabbat with Shalom Aleichem by the Shvesters
The Shvesters (Chava Levi and Polina Fradkin) are a Yiddish vocal duo hailing originally from Detroit, Michigan. They gained a reputation on social media for their perfectly synchronized voices (and...
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Jewish Traces in Unexpected Places: South Korean Children Sing "Hevenu Shalom...
We've shared 24 versions of the classic Hebrew song Hevenu Shalom Aleichem with you over the years. But we keep finding new renditions just as we've found 127 versions of Hava Nagila and 12 of Hinei Ma...
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A Joke to Start the Week - "Cable Guy"
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...
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Adam Sandler Captures 50 Years of Saturday Night Live in Funny and Wistful...
Comedian Adam Sandler, who spent only five years as a cast member of Saturday Night Live, captured the essence of the 50-year-old show in a funny and wistful new song that he sang at the SNL reunion...
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Wacky Wednesday Comedy Special: Vacation From Hell - a Candid Camera Classic
Candid Camera was an American hidden camera/practical joke reality television series created and produced by Allen Funt, which initially began on radio as The Candid Microphone on June 28, 1947. After...
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Throwback Thursday Comedy Showcase: Rita Rudner on Side Effects in TV...
We've been big fans of Rita Rudner ever since she started to appear on late night TV in the 1980s.Rudner started her career as a dancer, then switched to stand-up comedy about her dating experiences....
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Welcoming Shabbat with Lecha Dodi by Cantor Elias Rosemberg and Sons
Born into a musical family in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Hazzan Elias Rosemberg followed in the footsteps of his grandfather, a Hazzan, and his father, a clarinetist in a Klezmer band. In 1991, Hazzan...
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Humor in Yiddish Phrases - "A Groiseh Knocker"
In our search for new faces and new sources of Jewish humor, we came across a series of posts by a ventriloquist who goes by the name of Dr. Allan and has a dummy named Chaim.Here's a post with Chaim...
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