By Mark D. Zimmerman MELVILLE, New York — There was controversy at the inauguration of Donald Trump over the decision of Rabbi Marvin Hier to offer an invocation. Some felt that Rabbi Hier, the Founder and Dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center/Museum of Tolerance, should not participate, given Trump’s many remarks degrading minorities, Muslims, immigrants, women, and others […]
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Mark D. Zimmerman, Trivia, Humor & SatireBLaurie Baron SAN DIEGO-Press Secretary Sean Spicer lashed out at the press for underestimating the size of the crowd that attended Trump’s inauguration. After numerous newspapers used aerial photos to prove that fewer people attended Trump’s inauguration than Obama’s first inauguration, Kellyanne Conway contended that Spicer was merely presenting “alternative facts.” Alternative facts are to
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Joel H. Cohen NEW YORK — A nephew called me in Staten Island, NY, from his home in North Carolina, some 500 miles away. to ask whether we shopped at a particular supermarket chain. “Very often,” I replied, hoping that maybe he’d seen our names on a list of prize-winners.. But he was a
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Joel H. Cohen, Middle East, Trivia, Humor & Satire, USAThe Ignomination By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO−An inauguration turns into an ignomination when: The new president is more corrupt than the opponent he derided as crooked. The new president can’t resist telling his predecessor that he’s fired. The new president strings together his “best” tweets rather than writing an inauguration speech. The new president offers
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SAN DIEGO — “Hineni,” Abraham answered to God. “Here I am.” And Melanie Rubin found in San Diego where someone else was. “Hineni1 reads the license plate.”
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Melanie Rubin, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Mark D. Zimmerman MELVILLE, New York — The Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus has announced that it will be going out of business this year, with a final performance on Long Island on May 21. For many years the circus held special performances for the Orthodox community of New York during Chol Hamoed, the intermediate
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Mark D. Zimmerman, Trivia, Humor & SatireIn Donald Trump’s America, the jokes seem to write themselves. The president-elect gave “Saturday Night Live” writers a tall task this week: how to parody a press conference that already offered its own macabre humor, from “golden shower gate” to Trump’s plan to barely-not-really separate himself from his businesses to his insults directed at the
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International, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, Trivia, Humor & Satire, USABy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO−Outraged about the allegations about compromising information the Russians may have on him, Donald Trump vehemently denied the unsubstantiated charge that Russia has a video of him watching prostitutes urinate on his hotel bed in Moscow by reminding reporters that he is a germaphobe. What seems verifiable, however, is that he
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Joel H. Cohen NEW YORK — President-elect Donald Trump has announced plans to market a Jewish food line under the name “Trump’s Buenos Noshes — Making Jewish Food Great Again.” Reminding potential critics that,”As President, I don’t have any conflict of interest problems,” Trump said the that the business was a tribute to the Jewish
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License plate maven Melanie Rubin found this variant of L’Chaim. Any way you spell it, it is a toast to life.
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SAN DIEGO — Here’s a license plate that our maven Melanie Rubin was just destined to find again: Bashirt. Another license plate watcher had sent a picture of it to us in 2015.
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Melanie Rubin, our license plate maven, found this license plate owned evidently by a surf-loving Floridian. O Vey, the surf’s not up?
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Melanie Rubin, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO−Donald Trump has asked all current American ambassadors to vacate their posts the day of his inauguration. When asked why, he replied, “Who needs ambassadors when I have a Twitter account?” * The shooter who killed 5 people and wounded six others at the Fort Lauderdale airport told the FBI several
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire, USABy Joel H. Cohen NEW YORK — The story is told of a man in New York calling his aged mother in Florida. When she answers, he says, “Ma, you sound weak. What’s the problem?” “No problem. I just haven’t had anything to eat in two days.” “Why not?” the son asks, genuinely concerned. “I
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