We Love to Laugh
Jews have always used humor to get themselves through difficult times. And you better believe that Jews have had difficult times! Maybe our humor is what has kept us alive as a people for more than 5,500 years. Certainly, our humor has been used to teach the world a great deal about humanity.
Jammin’ Jokes
Some of our very own Jewish comedians have this to say:
Q: What do you get when you squeeze
a synagogue?
A: Fresh Jews!
Sent in by Raquel Rosen, 12,
Beverly Hills
Judaism refuses to let despair be the final chapter. The messianic hope is not naïve optimism but an act of spiritual defiance. To proclaim that history has meaning in the face of apparent meaninglessness is a form of courage.
Jokes about Jewish noses are not funny and they are clearly antisemitic.
As antisemitism rises again — and as figures who claim Catholic identity trivialize Hitler and vilify Jews — it is incumbent upon you to speak with moral thunder.
Let us speak plainly: many of these influencers are not advocates. They are actors. They cry on cue, curate their grief and sell Jewish tragedy as content. They master the algorithm, not the fight.
“Whenever there is a communal issue, our concept is, ‘let’s try doing it as a community.’ Not just Young Israel. Young Israel is one piece of it.”
Notable people and events in the Jewish LA community.
The tension between Athens and Sparta, openness and fortification, building and defending, has been with the Jewish people from Tanakh through Jabotinsky and into the present moment.
If people can give up their cellphones, soda, football and stock trades, they can give up politics for 50 hours.
For more than 30 years, Ogen, Israel’s trusted nonprofit social lender, has provided families, entrepreneurs, and nonprofits with economic stability, financial guidance, and the tools to rebuild with dignity.
Free expression is essential in a democracy. No one should call for the censorship of ideas. But there must be accountability when speech crosses into incitement of political violence.
Ari Fuld’s heroism is evident because rarely does the victim become the savior.
While Bill Maher and John Fetterman demonstrated an understanding of Jewish values, across town at the Emmys we saw just the opposite, delivered with the hollow prefix “as a Jew.”
As Gen. Petraeus warned, “Half-measures in urban warfare do not save lives. They only postpone defeat.”
Why is Saturday Night Live star Bowen Yang falsely accusing Israel of genocide, while ignoring the confirmed genocide perpetrated against Muslim Uyghurs in China?
It’s hard to overstate how reckless, unserious, and corrosive this claim is — not just for Israel, but for the meaning of the word “genocide” and the principle that nations have a right to defend themselves.
In reviving this dream, Milken’s center is reviving something even more vital– our faith in life. It is that very faith in life, that force that drove our ancestors, where we can find our optimism as we enter the Jewish new year.
