By Laurie Baron The Argentine Tango (tune: Some Enchanted Evening) SAN DIEGO-With world leaders now in Argentina for the G-20 conference, these lyrics came to mind: Some G-20 conference, you may see Vlad Putin You may see Vlad Putin across a crowded room. And somehow he knows, you’d love to speak. But fake news would […]
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Jewish Religion, Travel and Food, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Joel H. Cohen NEW YORK — To change President Trump’s mood and take his mind off such concerns as a Democrat-controlled House of Representatives and the forthcoming report of the Mueller special investigation, the president’s daughter Ivanka and son-in-law Jared have been reading him accounts of major figures in the Bible and other religious
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Joel H. Cohen, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Mark D. Zimmerman MELVILLE, New York — Lines formed overnight and crowds surged into shopping malls and big box stores as the Christmas shopping season began on the day after Thanksgiving, known as Black Friday. Meanwhile, in Israel, ads appeared all over television last Thursday night touting sales taking place in stores on Friday. What name
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Mark D. Zimmerman, Trivia, Humor & SatireCrown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s Thanksgiving By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO−The Crown Prince decided to show how grateful he was to President Trump for defending him against charges of murder by holding a Thanksgiving dinner in the royal palace. He ordered a large “turkey” from Turkey and dispatched a team of master carvers to go
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Mark D. Zimmerman MELVILLE, New York — Marvel Comics writer Stan Lee died last week at the age of 95. Lee created hundreds of characters including Spider-Man, Iron Man, The Incredible Hulk, Thor, and Ant-Man. Lee intentionally did not identify any of his characters as Jewish, though he noted how Judaism influenced his writing, stating
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Mark D. Zimmerman, Trivia, Humor & SatireTrumpy Bear Replaces Smokey the Bear By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO-This week a television advertising campaign started to run on Fox News for Trumpy Bear, a stuffed Grizzly bear who sports a Donald Trump hairpiece and contains an American flag inside his zippered pouch. But this is no toy! After touring the sites of the
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Mark D. Zimmerman MELVILLE, New York — Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was in the news last week, as she suffered three broken ribs from a fall in her office. What is unique about the chambers of Justice Ginsburg in the Supreme Court building? A. Justice Ginsburg’s chambers is the only room in the Supreme
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Mark D. Zimmerman, Trivia, Humor & SatireTrump Speak By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO −“Discount” means invalidate absentee and provisional ballots cast in predominantly Democratic precincts. * “Very close to complete victory” means Republicans won the Senate despite receiving 12,000,000 less votes than the Democrats and lost over 30 seats to the Democrats in the House. * “Accosted” means CNN correspondent Jim
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Joel H. Cohen NEW YORK — Is President Trump mellowing? You be the judge. Stung by rebuffs from segments of the Jewish community and rocked by what the Democratic victory in the mid-term House elections could mean to him and his administration, the president might well have been expected to react as he usually
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Joel H. Cohen, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Mark D. Zimmerman MELVILLE, New York — Actor Alec Baldwin was in the news last week, as he was arrested for allegedly assaulting a man during a parking dispute. Baldwin has been in the middle of many controversies in the past, including what Israel-related event? A. The Dominican newspaper El Nacional ran an article about Donald Trump and
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Mark D. Zimmerman, Trivia, Humor & SatireWhy the Jewish Community of Pittsburgh Did Not Want President Trump to Attend the Funerals of the Victims of the Tree of Life Massacre By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO−It expected that he would toss out boxes of Kleenex to the mourners. * It suspected that he intended to recruit minions rather than join a minyan.
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire, USABy Joel H. Cohen NEW YORK — Yiddish, often considered an endangered species, seems to be enjoying a revival. The most dramatic example is a literal revival — the new National Yiddish Theater Folksbiene production of Fiddler on the Roof (under the title, Fidler afn Dach) at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York City.
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Joel H. Cohen, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Mark D. Zimmerman MELVILLE, New York — Ariana Grande is in the news following the announcement of her breakup with Saturday Night Live cast member Pete Davidson. Grande was raised Catholic, but turned away from the religion because of the theology regarding homosexuality, in solidarity with her gay brother, Frankie. She now studies kabbalah and has been
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