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Jewish Jokes: Did you hear the one about Karen’s visit to Howie’s Bar & Grill?

Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer • Published February 9, 2022

Remember to be kind to your service people. They are working their Tuchus' off for you.

Something funny my Bubbe used to say in Yiddish

Published February 7, 2022

It’s truly amazing how long it takes till you really understand your grandfather or at least a part of him, you took for granted. Since joining the Jewish Light, I’ve reflected on my own Jewish experience growing up, and part of that was the Yiddish,...

Jewish Jokes: Did you hear the one about why it snowed today?

Published February 2, 2022

‘Excuse me, do you mind my asking?’ In fact, “yes” we sometimes do since you politely inquired.

BARBARA BALLINGER AND MARGARET CRANE • Published February 1, 2022

From the first frequent query of “How are you?” to the more intimate, “Do you have good chemistry, hint, hint, are you sleeping together?” we’ve found in our single status after 50, nothing seems off-limits. Whether it’s illness—“Was he...

Jewish Jokes: Did you hear the one about Palmer and the census taker?

Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer • Published January 26, 2022

Jewish humor can be difficult to define. As William Novak and Moshe Waldoks write in "The Big Book of Jewish Humor," it is easier to describe Jewish humor in terms of what it is not, than what it is. It is not, for example, escapist. It is not slapstick....

Life lessons at 50 plus: “Out of the Mouths of Babes”

BARBARA BALLINGER AND MARGARET CRANE • Published January 25, 2022

What have we learned from our offspring? Plenty. As children growing up in the 1950s and ‘60s, our primary role was to be seen and not heard. Advice was doled out like morning vitamins with such directives as “Sit up straight,” “Chew with your...

Jewish Trivia: Jon Stewart

MARK D. ZIMMERMAN, Special For The Jewish Light • Published January 24, 2022

It was just announced that Jon Stewart will be the recipient of the 2022 Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. The award program will take place at the Kennedy Center on April 24, and will later be broadcast on television. Stewart...

Jewish Jokes: Did you hear the one about the waiter at Buxner’s Deli?

Published January 19, 2022

"Humor has had a profound effect on the way the Jewish people see the world, and has sustained them through millennia of hardships and suffering." - Hershey H. Friedman Your Jewish Joke Of The Week Today's joke was sent in by reader Gabriel Fox. If...