By Mark D. Zimmerman MELVILLE, New York — Neilah is the closing service at the end of Yom Kippur. The service includes many of the same traditional liturgical prayers chanted throughout the High Holidays, including Ashrei, Selichot, and Avinu Malkeinu. Unique to Neilah is the chanting of the El Nora Alila, a Sephardic hymn attributed to Moses ibn Ezra. Within the […]
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Mark D. Zimmerman, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Joel H. Cohen NEW YORK — Does anybody think we need more al chets this Yom Kippur? We already have an abundance, including some we don’t understand. But just in case we’d like more, the White House communications team has sent to Jewish congregations across the nation a list of suggested politically related admissions
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Joel H. Cohen, Trivia, Humor & SatireEnhanced Interrogations to Identify Anonymous By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO — President Trump has decided that polygraphing all the associates he suspects of writing the anonymous OpEd in the failing New York Times will not not yield the identity of the treasonous culprit. He has appointed Dick Cheney to serve as the Presidential Grand Inquisitor
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire, USABy Mark D. Zimmerman MELVILLE, New York — The recitation of the Unetaneh Tokef prayer is one of the central liturgical moments of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur services. The prayer speaks to one of the major themes of the holidays–“Who shall live and who shall die. Who shall perish by water and who by fire. Who shall
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Jewish Religion, Mark D. Zimmerman, Trivia, Humor & SatireSmear: Bunk about the Whitehouse By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO−To counter Bob Woodward’s new book Fear: Trump in the White House, members of the Trump administration have published a book challenging Woodward’s accounts of what they allegedly said about the president. Here are some excerpts: * James Mattis: Since I know the president has more
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Joel H. Cohen NEW YORK — President Trump, who is celebrated (at least by himself) as an extraordinary deal-maker, apparently learned the art when he served as a Shabbos Goy as a youngster in Queens, N.Y. That previously unknown fact was just revealed by writer Tess Terone, who is researching a book on Trump’s
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Joel H. Cohen, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Mark D. Zimmerman MELVILLE, New York –Senator John McCain passed away last week. Among the things McCain will be remembered for was his willingness to work “across the aisle” when he believed it was in the best interest of the American people. For example, McCain and Democratic Senator Russ Feingold of Wisconsin were the primary co-sponsors
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Mark D. Zimmerman, Trivia, Humor & SatirePolitical Singing Groups Cover Classic Rock Songs: In Memory of Aretha Franklin: “A Change is Gonna Come” By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO−Godspeed Mac, “Go Your Own Way” * Don Petty and the Lawbreakers, “Free Fallin” * Guns and Lobbies (Official Band of the NRA), “Live and Let Die” * The Supremes, “Let Me Go the
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & SatireAdages for the Trump Era By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO−If you don’t have something nice to say about someone, don’t say anything for two days until you are pressured to say something positive you don’t really mean. * A snitch in time almost ought to be outlawed. * Late to bed, early to rise makes
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire, USABy Joel H. Cohen NEW YORK — This has not been a good year for the Cohen name, or for those who bear it. I’ve tried not to dwell on that reality, but there are constant, stark reminders — in newspapers and on TV. And, just the other day, a longtime dear friend named Jerry brought
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Joel H. Cohen, Trivia, Humor & Satire, USABy Mark D. Zimmerman MELVILLE, New York — It was just announced that the hit sitcom The Big Bang Theory will be airing its 12th and final season beginning next month. The show stars Jim Parsons, Kaley Cuoco, Johnny Galecki, Kunal Nayyar, and Mayim Bialik, among others. Bialik, who plays neuroscientist Amy Farrah Fowler, has an
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Mark D. Zimmerman, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, Trivia, Humor & SatireFlipper, a Fable By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO−Once upon a time, there lived a pod of whales who ruled the coastal waters of the United States. The obese white whale leading the Pod referred to himself as PODUS. He had the largest round blowhole out of which he constantly spouted grandiose schemes, insults, lies, and
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Joel H. Cohen NEW YORK — Imagine for a moment that, reluctantly, President Trump has listened to the advice of daughter Ivanka and agreed to meet with an anger management specialist. He enters the office of the specialist, Dr. Mensch, who invites him to take a seat, and starts right in: “People say you’re
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Joel H. Cohen, Trivia, Humor & Satire, USABy Mark D. Zimmerman MELVILLE, New York –The Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin, passed away last week. In addition to her twenty #1 R&B hits, eighteen Grammy awards, multiple honorary doctorates, and induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (the first woman to receive this honor), Franklin and her song lyrics were also cited
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