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...
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...
"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
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Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published January 13, 2022
If your first rule of where you buy your bagels is to buy from someone who is sort of mean, no fun, and doesn't like making bagels, then please read no further. The guy's from Lefty's Bagels are not for you.
Here's proof, and just in time for...
"Jewish humor has sustained our people for centuries, through hardship and tyranny." - Michael Krasny
Your Jewish Joke Of The Week
If you have a joke please send it via email to [email protected]. If I use your joke I’ll send you coupons...
Lior Zaltzman, Kveller
• Published January 10, 2022
Henry Winkler, 76, was born to be a TikTok star. Since the day he stunned the world with Fonzie’s incredible dance to “Hava Nagilah” in a 1976 episode of “Happy Days,” we’ve known the Jewish actor had the moves, and TikTok, known for its...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published January 9, 2022
Bob Saget, the comedian and actor famous for playing a wholesome sitcom father figure but who never lost his flair for raunchy comedy, has died at 65.
Saget was found dead in his hotel room in Orlando, where he was performing on tour. The cause of...
ROBERT A. COHN, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus
• Published January 6, 2022
Readers of the Jewish Light are familiar with my lifelong obsession with comic books. As a kid, I had over 1,200 Golden Age comic books in neat stacks on my windowsill in our Westgate apartment in my beloved University City. I knew most of the stories...
PJ Grisar, The Forward
• Published December 30, 2021
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2021 was a year of new beginnings — not just for our newly reopened society, but also for...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published December 30, 2021
As a Jew, does the idea of celebrating New Year's Eve on December 31 make you feel uncomfortable?
In recent years, I've seen rabbis write articles about how the Jews in their community see the holiday as part of secular tradition, with no redeeming...
BY NATE BLOOM, SPECIAL FOR THE JEWISH LIGHT
• Published December 28, 2021
In 1951, “I Love Lucy” was the highest rated show on TV. It co-starred Lucille Ball and her real-life husband, Desi Arnaz, as her TV-husband. On Dec. 22, Amazon Prime began streaming a bio-pic about the couple, entitled “Being the Ricardos” (the...
"The current conception of Jewish humor originated, as many modern ideas have, with Sigmund Freud. He was the first to single out "self-criticism" as a unique quality of Jewish Jokes." - Dan Ben-Amos from "The Myth of Jewish Humor (1973)
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