Apparently, some of you out there believe I'm running out of Yiddish words, or you just want to see your name typed correctly in the Jewish Light. Either way, longtime reader and first-time emailer Edward Finkelstein reached out to share one of his favorite...

For many students in our area, school is back in session. My older son is now a senior in high school. A senior! I’m going to die. I’m going to cry, then throw up, then die, then cry some more, then run to the bathroom, then die again, and then cry....

This story was originally published in the Forward. Click here to get the Forward's free email newsletters delivered to your inbox. The town of Mountain Dale, New York, once boasted 34 hotels and 75 bungalow colonies. Famous comedians, musicians and...

Every year we invite Elijah to our Passover seders, setting out a glass of wine to welcome him upon arrival. The guy never shows up. Rude. But you know who shows up uninvited all the time? Anxiety. So rude.  It just pops in like a nosy neighbor who...

(JTA) — I’ve been teaching a virtual class on Jewish humor through our partner site, My Jewish Learning. I share classic jokes and bits and then discuss what they say about both the Jews who tell them and the Jewish audiences that enjoy them.  We...

(JNS) -- For the past six years, the journalist Benyamin Cohen has managed social media for the Albert Einstein estate. “The world’s favorite genius,” Cohen, news director at the Forward, writes on LinkedIn. “He has more than 20 million followers...

Academy Award winner Alan Arkin, who appeared in more than 90 films and headlined the 2011 St. Louis Jewish Book Festival, died on Thursday. He was the son of Ukrainian and German Jewish immigrants in Brooklyn, where he was born in 1934. But over the...

Rodney Dangerfield built an entire career on one phrase, "I don't get no respect." Well, Mr. Dangerfield, eh, I mean Jacob Cohen, son of Dorothy 'Dotty' (Teitelbaum) and Phillip Cohen. We here at The St. Louis Jewish Light do respect you. This is why...

Seriously now, this is no joke. Back in 2020, a survey from the Pew Research Center found that 5.3 million of the nation’s religious and cultural Jews cited humor as essential to their Jewish identity. Half of U.S. Jews say continuing family traditions...

This is a true story. Several years ago at a school awards assembly, a teacher/administrator/principal type gave an opening speech. Said educator was known for being nervous when addressing big groups. That, combined with too many notecards, produced...

Comedy roasts took off in this current era of unscripted cable television because they’re cheap to produce. The format is reliable, simple: A mix of comics and celebrities take turns lobbing potshots at each other and at the primary target, who finally...