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Trivia, Humor & Satire
Stand-up shtick–Only you’re reading it
By Marnie Winston-MacCauley LAS VEGAS, Nevada — We Jews have a great sense of humor and an exhaustive one. We can be outright hilarious, sarcastic, ironic, edgy, surprising. Virtually nothing is off limits! One type of humor is “Funny-Silly-Gotcha!” I’ve collected some “Gotcha!” Jewish humor that I hope will put a smile on your face.
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Trivia, Humor & Satire
Humoring the headlines: April 11, 2014
By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO-The Manischewitz Company announced this week that it has been sold to Sankaty Advisors, a subsidiary of Bain Capital. Sankaty plans to outsource the production of matzo to Third World countries with hot climates. Following the Passover tradition, slave laborers will carry the flattened matzo dough on their backs to bake
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & SatireComing soon: Hilarious, play- acting seder at Ner Tamid
By Rabbi Nadav Caine POWAY, California — When I arrived in San Diego County in 2007 to serve Ner Tamid Synagogue, it didn’t occur to me to lead a First Seder at my synagogue. “Doesn’t everyone already have plans with family for the First Seder?” I presumed. It never occurred to me
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Jewish Religion, Trivia, Humor & SatireJewish-interest license plate: N G-dz I
SAN DIEGO–As read by Melanie Rubin, our maven of license plate-speak, this one means something to the effect that we are loved in God’s eye. And the field of flowers in the background of the message tend to reinforce that idea. Have you smelled the flowers today?
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Melanie Rubin, Trivia, Humor & SatireHumoring the headlines: April 9, 2014
By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO-A Chinese ship detected pings while combing the Indian Ocean for the crash site of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. While some observers believe this will lead to finding the wreckage of the plane, others think that the Chinese also detected an alternating series of pongs emanating from the ship’s game room.
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & SatireMatzo crumbs — er, tidbits
By Marnie Winston MacCauley LAS VEGAS, Nevada — In Fred A. Bernstein’s “The Jewish Mothers’ Hall of Fame,” Florence, a Holocaust survivor and mother of rock star, Gene Simmons, shared her Yiddishkeit with Gene’s pop-star pals. One year Gene brought Cher and her family to his mom’s home for a Passover Seder. Mom was thrilled.
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Humoring the Headlines: April 5, 2014
By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO -Now that the Supreme Court has concluded that money is free speech and there should not be limits on how much money corporations and individuals donate to political campaigns, congressional representatives from both parties are posting their votes on specific bills on EBay and selling them to the highest bidder.
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & SatireHumoring the Headlines: April 2, 2014
By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO-Since New Jersey Democrats remain skeptical of the Bridgegate report authored by lawyers Chris Christie appointed, the Governor may appoint another group of investigators who won’t find anything that implicates him in the scandal. He has asked the search team at Malaysia Airlines to look into the matter. * President
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & SatireJewish-interest license plate – ‘Eritz’
SAN DIEGO –When words are transliterated from one alphabet to another, a variety of spellings occur — for example “Chanukah” and “Hannukah.” While the most common translation for the Hebrew word for “the land” is “eretz,” this spelling too works. And so our Jewish license plate maven, Melanie Rubin, gets one more notch on her
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Melanie Rubin, Trivia, Humor & Satire
Not a ‘wrecking ball,’ but a ‘matzah ball’
JERUSALEM (Press Release) – The world has certainly seen its share of Miley Cyrus Wrecking Ball parody songs, but nothing as creative or unusual as that of a Hassidic Man swinging on a Matzah Ball in a miniature set made of real pieces of Matzah. To complement the video, a mock fan site was created
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Trivia, Humor & Satire