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Moshe wants to buy a parrot
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Moshe wants to buy a parrot and goes to his local pet shop to see what they have. The assistant shows him a parrot and explains that this one is really quite special since it can speak most languages. So Moshe decides to test this out. “Do you speak English?” asks Moshe. “Yes” replied the parrot.
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A Jewish grandmother giving directions to her grown grandson
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A Jewish grandmother giving directions to her grown grandson who is coming to visit with his wife: “You come to the front door of the apartment complex. I am in apartment 14T. There is a big panel at the door. With your elbow push button 14T. I will buzz you in. Come inside, the elevator
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A young Jewish Mom walks her son to the school bus corner on his first day of kindergarten
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A young Jewish Mom walks her son to the school bus corner on his first day of kindergarten. “Behave, my bubaleh” she says. “Take good care of yourself and think about your Mother, tataleh!” “And come right back home on the bus, schein kindaleh. Your Mommy loves you a lot, my ketsaleh!” At the end
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Moyshe couldn’t sleep one night
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Moyshe couldn’t sleep one night. He was tossing and turning for hours. When his wife couldn’t take any more she asked him for an explanation. He told her that he owes Dovid from across the road 10.000$. He is supposed to pay it back the next day and he hasn’t got the money. His wife
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Jerry, a non-observant Jew, was telling his troubles to his friend Dave.
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Jerry, a non-observant Jew, was telling his troubles to his friend Dave. “My son graduated high school and traveled across Europe to find himself. He ended up in Israel and started studying in a yeshiva. Now he keeps kosher, won’t go anywhere on Saturdays, and wears his fringes out in public. He is an embarrassment to
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Comparison Table for Car-rental companies at Tel Aviv Airport
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Hi, I am trying to get an up to date comparison table of car-rental companies at the Israeli airport Ben-Gurion in Tel Aviv (TLV). In the table below you’ll find an overview of what I together with acquantances collected. Please help to complete this table by commenting on this post. Thank you.
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Yellow Pages from the times of the Talmud

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Today I received via e-mail a quite interesting page from the Yellow Pages during the times of the Talmud. I am wondering whether this would be a real page if Antonio Meucci or Alexander Graham Bell (the inventors of the first telephone) would’ve existed during that time:
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Nice song with Moshe Giat en Zion Golan
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Enjoy watching this movie with Sephardi singers (Sephardi Jews are in general Jews of Arabic or Persian descend) singing a song in Yiddish (Yiddish was and is still spoken by Jews of European descend) with minor Arabic song-styles:
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My night on the Belgian snowy motorway (23-24 December 2010)

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Enjoy the photos from our nightly ramble after coming back from the ski resort on the third highest hilltop in the Belgian Ardennes (http://www.ski-baraque.be/). It was a long night, a very long night (it ook us about 12 hours instead of the usual 1,5 to 2 hours to get home), but it was an uncommon
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Jochem Myjer: De rust zelve
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Via uitzendinggemist kun je een zeer onrustige Jochem Myjer op het podium een geweldige show zien geven: http://humortv.vara.nl/c.343695.hele-show-de-rust-zelve.html
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About Me

Gershon here – uncovering family stories, Jewish history, and hidden gems from the past. Sharing archives, research tips, and personal discoveries from near and far.
