By Mark D. Zimmerman NEW YORK — The Broadway play Hamilton is in the news, as the cast addressed Mike Pence the other night when he attended a performance of the show. Alexander Hamilton had a little-known connection to Jews. What was it? A. Hamilton and his wife Elizabeth Schuyler had eight children, including their daughter Eliza. […]
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Mark D. Zimmerman, Trivia, Humor & SatireThe Second Hundred Days By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO−We know Donald Trump’s priorities for his first one hundred days in office, but I was curious what policies he will push in the second one hundred days. After I proved through ancestry.com that my great grandfather came from the same shtetl as Jared Kushner’s, I interviewed
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Joel H. Cohen NEW YORK — President-elect Donald J. Trump has tweeted that he intends to have a shul built in the White House “to make Judaism great again.” He said that Judaism “was once a great religion, but had waned during the Obama years. And, if Hillary had been elected President, it would
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Joel H. Cohen, Trivia, Humor & Satire, USABy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO-President Obama is visiting Greece, Germany, and Peru to assure their leaders that Donald Trump will not radically alter American foreign policies and to ask which of them will grant political asylum to Hillary Clinton. *
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Mark D. Zimmerman NEW YORK — Surely the most famous song written and performed by Leonard Cohen, who passed away last week, is Hallelujah. The song, with its Biblical references to Samson and Delilah and David and Bathsheba, has been covered by hundreds of performers, including Bob Dylan, Jeff Buckley, Rufus Wainright, Willie Nelson and Justin
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Mark D. Zimmerman, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO−The Center for Disease Control has issued a health alert for people living in states that voted for Hillary Clinton. Cases of people showing up at hospital emergency rooms and wearing “Deal Me In,” I’m With Her,” “Nasty Woman” and “Run Like a Girl” tee shirts have reached epidemic proportions since
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO−When Obama became president, sales of guns spiked. When Trump became president, applications for Green Cards and DACA status spiked. * Donald and Melania Trump have indicated that they have huge plans for redecorating the White House. Although specifics aren’t yet available, reporters have detected that members of Trump’s transition team
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire, USAPhew! It Is Almost Over By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO-Donald Trump claimed he survived an assassination attempt at his Reno rally this past Saturday. The Secret Service corrected him noting that it was only a Clinton supporter who shouted gun. In other words, it ended up being an asinine protest and claim. * This past
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Mark D. Zimmerman MELVILLE, New York — In honor of tomorrow’s election, there are two trivia questions this week: When Hillary Clinton’s daughter Chelsea was preparing to marry Marc Mezvinsky, the couple met with Rabbi James Ponet, the head rabbi at Yale who performed the ceremony. The rabbi told them that they could use
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Mark D. Zimmerman, Middle East, Trivia, Humor & Satire, USABy Joel H. Cohen In ancient documents recently discovered by archeologists, Absalom charged that his brother Solomon’s ascendancy to the throne was “rigged.” Absalom told an ancient scribe, “Crooked Sol conned the corrupt media into believing he was the smart one, but I had him beat by an incredible number of cubits. When he wasn’t
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Joel H. Cohen, Trivia, Humor & SatireHumoring the Headlines: Weinergate By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO−The bad news is that Hillary Clinton emails from her tenure as Secretary of State were found on Anthony Weiner’s laptop. The good news is that they were all marked “Confidential” by Weiner and forwarded to underage girls. * The bad news is that the FBI is
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire, USABy Mark D. Zimmerman MELVILLE, New York — The FBI is in the headlines regarding its investigation of Hillary Clinton and her e-mails. The FBI has a long history of being involved in investigations that may not make any sense. The FBI file on Albert Einstein was over 1400 pages in length. Why did the FBI conduct an
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Mark D. Zimmerman, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Joel H. Cohen NEW YORK — A group of Brooklyn pulpit rabbis, heads of yeshivas and prominent laymen has quietly enacted an informal, non-binding agreement to rein-in “extreme” shuckling. The compact applies to themselves, their students and congregants. The action came in the aftermath of injuries suffered by an unidentified 12-year-old boy, who swayed so
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Jewish Religion, Joel H. Cohen, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Mark D. Zimmerman MELVILLE, New York — Former Secretary of State Colin Powell, a Republican, just announced that he is endorsing Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton for president in the upcoming election. Colin Powell has some knowledge of Yiddish. Where did he learn to speak this language? A. Powell grew up in the South Bronx,
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