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Humor

Essay

The Lost Afikomen

Moshe Kash­er is a stand-up come­di­an and the author of Kash­er In The Rye: The True Tale Of A White Boy From Oak­land Who Became A Drug Addict, Crim­i­nal,…
Moshe Kash­er
April 5, 2012
Essay

Moshe Kash­er Responds to Critics

Moshe Kash­er is the author of Kash­er in the Rye: The True Tale of a White Boy from Oak­land Who Became a Drug Addict, Crim­i­nal, Men­tal Patient, and Then Turned 16.…
Moshe Kash­er
April 3, 2012
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Most of Me: Sur­viv­ing My Med­ical Meltdown
Robyn Michele Levy
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Just Say Nu: Yid­dish For Every Occa­sion (When Eng­lish Just Won’t Do)
Michael Wex
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Man­less in Mont­clair; How a Hap­pi­ly Mar­ried Woman Became a Wid­ow Look­ing for Love in the Wilds of Suburbia
Amy Holman Edelman
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The Jokes of Sig­mund Freud: A Study in Humor and Jew­ish Identity
Elliot Oring
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Hus­bandry: Sex, Love and Dirty Laun­dry: Inside the Minds of Mar­ried Men
Stephen Fried
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Things I’ve Learned From Women Who’ve Dumped Me
Ben Karlin, ed.
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Laugh for God’s Sake: Where Jew­ish Humor and Jew­ish Ethics Meet
Stanley J. Schachter
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We Have Ways of Mak­ing You Laugh: 120 Fun­ny Swasti­ka Cartoons
S. Gross
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Cloth­ing Option­al: And Oth­er Ways to Read These Stories
Alan Zweibel
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Ladies and Gen­tle­men, The Bible!
Jonathan Goldstein
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So Punk Rock (And Oth­er Ways to Dis­ap­point Your Mother)
Micol Ostow; David Ostow, illus.
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Make ​‘em Laugh: The Fun­ny Busi­ness of America
Laurence Maslon and Michael Kantor
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Free-Range Chick­ens
Simon Rich
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Camp Camp
Roger Bennett and Jules Shell; Ivan Reitma, fwd.
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