What do Bobover Hasidim do for fun? They have lots of weddings and get caught up in the spirit of singing and dancing, especially when the bride is the daughter of the rebbe himself. Read More »

Today is the 15th day of the Hebrew month of Shvat, also known as Tu B’Shvat. No, it’s not another fast day. It’s a real holiday, but one without any restrictions. The holiday is known as Jewish Arbor Day and the New Year for trees. It’s a day to feel good about the bounty of nature, including trees, fruits and nuts. Read More »

Israel’s newspaper Haaretz reported this week that Iran is mulling a partial ban of products manufactured by South Korean electronics giant Samsung over an Israeli commercial promoting one of the firm’s products which depicts the imagined destruction of Iran’s nuclear facility in Isfahan by Mossad operatives. Read More »

Wine tasting brought Israelis to Jerusalem this week for the country’s first kosher wine festival. According to a TV report by JewishNewsOne, kosher wine was previously far inferior to non-kosher wines because it was boiled to meet Jewish Halakha requirements. Read More »

Sing alongs have always been part of the Israeli scene. From the early days of its founding to the present day there’s something about group singing of folk songs old and new that appeals to the Israeli psyche. Read More »

Taglit -Birthright Israel is an organization that sponsors free 10-day heritage trips to Israel for Jewish young adults between 18 and 26 years old. ( Taglit is the Hebrew word for discovery. Read More »

Hahafuch is Israel’s premiere English-speaking comedy troupe, based in Jerusalem. We’ve shared some of their funny routines on Jewish Humor Central, including the Real Housewives of Jerusalem and the Bibi Netanyahu speech translated by a sub-par Ulpan graduate. Read More »

Yesterday we posted the comedy routine delivered by Linda Landau at the 2010 Jewish Week competition for the title of Best Amateur Comedian.  Victor Wishna was another of the competitors and he delivered jokes about his recent marriage, travel to Vietnam, jury duty, street vendors, and sellers of luggage at airports. Read More »

WARNING: We promised that we’d warn you if we post jokes and stories that are not family-friendly so you can shield yourself or anyone around you from them. So be warned, here they come. The Jewish Week of New York City runs a Best Jewish Comic contest every year. Read More »

Last September we shared a story about a new wry comedy from Israel titled “Footnote” (The Hebrew title is He’arat Shulayim ) that was selected to be shown at the New York Film Festival at Lincoln Center. Read More »

As we get ready for our second of three Shabbatot in Israel, we’re in the mood for some traditional popular Israeli songs and we’d like to share that mood with you by posting a video by Mor D. Hai,  whose real name is Marcos Cohen. Read More »

Have you ever gone to the supermarket and gotten confused by the proliferation of kosher symbols on products?  A few months ago we counted over a hundred different symbols. Read More »

A Jewish wedding isn’t a Jewish wedding without the groom breaking a glass at the end of the wedding ceremony. Read More »

Last February we posted a story and video about Amy Borkowsky and the answering machine messages from her mother that she turned into an iPhone application called Amy’s Mom. This week we found a larger collection of these saved messages with Amy’s comments on them. Some are very funny and are bound to make you chuckle, if not laugh aloud. Read More »

What ever happened to the funny film and video short? We were delighted to find that it’s still around, this time in the form of a viral video commercial for Blu electronic cigarettes. What, you never heard of electronic cigarettes? We didn’t until today. Last summer, the makers of Blu e-cigs launched a contest for the best viral video commercial. Read More »

Internet dating has achieved success around the world, but it has also resulted in failure, largely due to discrepancies between the profiles posted by users and their real life personalities. An Israeli TV comedy show recently showed the result of an internet blind date gone bad. Read More »

Since we started Jewish Humor Central two years ago, we’ve been running a lot of video clips from Israel — funny commercials, stand-up comedians, and skits from popular TV shows that put a unique Israeli spin on news and daily life. Read More »

It’s time for another cooking demo, and if you listen carefully, a lesson in spoken Yiddish. Yes, the Forward’s Est Gezunterheit chefs are back in another video from their cooking series. This time the Yiddish-speaking cooking ladies prepare gluten-free kashe varnishkes in a video just posted on YouTube. Read More »

Hava Nagila and Hevenu Shalom Aleichem have become popular worldwide, and we have posted some renditions of these songs being performed in places that you would least expect to hear them. Here is another example of how Jewish music can pop up unexpectedly, in this case in a church in the small town of Osterode, in Lower Saxony, Germany. Read More »

France’s best-loved talking cat, star of a hit comic book series, makes his big screen debut in this long awaited adaptation by celebrated graphic artist-turned-director Joann Sfar (Gainsbourg).  Rabbi Sfar lives a quiet life by the sea with his beautiful daughter Zlabya and her pet cat in 1920s Algeria. Read More »