It's another Monday and time for another Joke to Start the Week. Today we're sharing a joke by Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak (YY) Jacobson, one of America's premier Jewish scholars in Torah and Jewish m...
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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 no...
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Avinu Shebashamaim, the Prayer for the State of Israel, is usually sung in the Shabbat morning service. It is also sung at special days, such as Yom HaAtzmaut, and other days when congregations...
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"Don't lose your humor. Forget everything else." These were comedian Jerry Seinfeld's closing words of advice to the graduating class of Duke University this week when he delivered the commence...
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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...
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Yesterday's Yom Hazikaron (Memorial Day) in Israel transitioned last night to Yom Ha'atzmaut, a day of celebration of Israel's 76th birthday. Today we offer a salute to Israel on its years of o...
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Last Monday it was Yom Hashoah - Holocaust Remembrance Day, and tody it's Yom Hazikaron, Israel's Memorial Day. We think it's inappropriate to start this week off with a joke, our usual Mon...
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History is fungible. There is nothing that is fact, nor anything that is a lie. That is the new fashion on college campuses today. That has been the case for decades. And this absurdl...
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Mishkon Tephilo's historic landmark building on Main Street in Venice, California houses a beautiful synagogue that warmly embraces interfaith families and converts to Judaism. People notice...
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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...
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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...
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Zehavit Rosenbloom is a mom with seven children who is performing standup comedy and recording videos for Jewish audiences.She has created many Jewish chsracters including ultra religious Rebbe...
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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...
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Hevenu Shalom Aleichem is such a popular Hebrew song that it's sung all over the world. Over the years we've shared videos of it being performed in Indonesia , by Mayan children in Guatemala , ...
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Eitan Kantor is a musician, educator and composer based in Denver, CO. Eitan is the Music Director of the Hebrew Educational Alliance, a Conservative synagogue in South Denver. Through the crea...
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From Iquitos, Peru to Namibia, Gibraltar, Japan, and Siberia, Jewish communities are found on every continent today outside of Antarctica. Each presenting a unique flavor of Judaism, these com...
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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 produce...
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Vehi she'amda l'avoteinu v'lanu. (And it is she who stood for our ancestors and for us.) This line from the Passover Haggadah is the opening to a key paragraph acknowledging the fact that in ev...
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Tonight we welcome another Shabbat. It's a special one because it falls on Chol Hamoed, the intermediate days of Passover. Cantor Thom King of Beth El Congregation in Baltimore, Maryland has ...
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"Please do not uproot the planted, Do not forget the hope. Bring me back and I shall return to the good land." Today is Chol Hamoed, the intermediate day of Passover, but it's still ...
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The artist and painter Aharon Z. Bernstein paints scenes in sand to accompany a music video of Yonatan Razel's song V'hi Sheamda. The sand drawings illustrate the way that God saves us from ...
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Last week Naftali Bennett, former Prime Minister of Israel, spoke to a group of students at the University of Michigan. In three minutes, he explained the history of Jews and Zionism clearly an...
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Rabotai (meaning gentlemen) is a fresh and exciting Jewish a cappella group comprised of energetic vocal talent and professional beatboxing. Coming from different corners of the world, its m...
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As we get ready for the first (and in Israel, the only) Passover seder next Monday evening, we're sharing a version of Dayenu from The Third Seder, a long standing Yiddish cultural traditio...
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Anchored by a strong Jewish identity and driven by a mission to connect Jews around the globe with their heritage through music, professional Jewish a cappella group Six13 are the originators o...
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