Humor

Apply for a Blog

Jul 16, 2025, 9:23 PM

On the top shelf of my guest room closet, I spotted the Tickle Me Elmo I had bought for my grandkids. I carefully reached up, took the plush toy in my arms, and cradled it like a newborn. I...

Moshe-Mordechai van Zuiden

Jul 7, 2025, 11:10 PM

About all the good that diehard Antisemites do for the Jews

Ironically, they do so by refusing to consider us trivial. This post is full of irony. Skip it if you dislike the satirical. Read this instead. The persistence of Antisemites makes that Jews get to excel in persistence. They also refuse to...

Sarah Tuttle-Singer

Jun 28, 2025, 6:13 PM

At the Jerusalem chapter of the ‘We Don’t Care’ club

Mismatched socks. (iStock)

I won't worry about what you wear or whether you take seconds. Nor will I explain what you can google, and won't accept anyway. But we'll dance and laugh and keep going

Michael Feldstein

Jun 26, 2025, 7:29 AM

Banging It Out for 25 Years

If you were 20-something, single, and living on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in the early 2000s, you’d likely be at Congregation Oheb Zedek on Friday night checking out the social scene and at the Great Lawn at...

Jun 10, 2025, 4:56 PM

It started as Neruda. It ended as Shabak.

In Israel, your garbage bin doesn’t just hold trash. It holds opinions. Territory. Stories. Sometimes even a verse or two. It might even be under surveillance. One of my best friends—someone I love in the kind of quiet, deep way that doesn’t...

Jun 8, 2025, 11:22 PM

The other day, as I sat in my friend Lee's car, listening to him tell a tale about his yiddisha momma. Yes, I know what you're thinking. "Mort, another story about Jewish moms---like we haven't heard enough about these creatures...

Moshe-Mordechai van Zuiden

May 21, 2025, 10:09 AM

Totally Rich Use Multiple Protections

Satire Some say the $400 million Qatari plane gift needs to be debugged before it'll be suitable as Airforce One. That's a ridiculous waste of effort, time, and money. Trump never kept a secret. Why not give Qatar the scoops? Some...

May 21, 2025, 9:59 AM

My grandfather’s last will and his grandson’s first one

My maternal grandfather, Dov Ber Levin, whom I remember simply as ‘zeide,’ was a devout Orthodox Jew and passionate Zionist. He was a man of stocky build, with a neatly trimmed white moustache and beard, who, according to my...

May 11, 2025, 8:28 AM

When I learned Yaacov Kirschen had passed away, I was deeply saddened. Yaacov's Dry Bones comics were my favorites. I loved reading the strip in The Jerusalem Post. I even bought a Dry Bones Haggadah, which I proudly read...

May 9, 2025, 12:19 PM

Zara, are you listening? Sweating the sweater

By the time you’ve had four daughters finish eighth grade at yeshiva day school, you’d think you’d know what they need to wear for graduation picture day. So when the moms of my fifth daughter’s friends asked for my expertise,...

Load more