Showing posts with label jewish jokes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label jewish jokes. Show all posts

Saturday, December 09, 2006

a cute little joke

one day a jewish boy comes home from school all excited and tells his mother he got a part in the school's upcoming play.

"oy! she gushes. "wonnnnderful!"

"soooo, tell me .... what part is it, my darling?" replies his mother squeezing his little cheeks.

the young boy says, "i get to play the part of the jewish husband!"

the mother furrows her eyebrows, scowls and says, "you go back to that school and you tell your teacher you want a speaking part!!


check out this jewish mother! now that takes stamina chutzpah!!

and look how much harry houdini loved
his "two sweethearts" — [his jewish mother & his wife].

photo: archival, a century of immigration

interestingly [and sadly] enough, houdini met the making for his final demise here in montreal one fateful day when he was not prepared for a blow to the stomach.

for a cute parody of some would-be famous jewish mothers, look here (but turn down the background music, oy! my head!).

and finally just in time for hanukkah, a cute calendar called yiddishe mamas.

enough already.

Friday, September 15, 2006

a fresh loaf & some jewish humour

here is one of the loaves of bread i made. this one does not use the starter but rather a fermented "quick" overnight starter. it is a half and half wholewheat & white sandwich bread. it was perfect for sandwiches and i am very happy with it. it uses milk which makes it dairy. when i make it again, i will experiment and use [pareve] soy milk and compare.

i currently have a challah in the fridge which is fermenting overnight. this is a new recipe which i will report on and post pictures for if i like it. it is a maggie glezer recipe. and yes, most of my breads are fermented. the point of this slow method is the development of flavour. it works.

and now for a little humour:

A Jewish young man is in love with a native American Indian called Rising Lilly. The only problem is, he has been afraid to tell his parents that she isn't Jewish as he knows they will not approve.

He finally gets up the courage to invite her over his parent's house for dinner. He tells his parents, "my girlfriend is coming for dinner. I love her and I think I want to marry her. I hope you will like her."

When Rising Lilly arrives, his mother says to her, "come into the kitchen with me and help me prepare dinner." So she goes. Meanwhile, the man is very nervous and is pacing back and forth hoping that his mother will like her.

When Rising Lilly comes out from the kitchen, he says to her, "so what happened? did she like you?" And she replies, "yes very much so. She was even talking about taking up an Indian name." "An Indian name?? What are you talking about??" And she replies, "well your mother said something about next week she's going to be Sitting Shiva."
[shiva = 7 day period of mourning jews observe after the death of a direct family member]