Laugh a little
We all receive jokes by email, but I've found a very large collection of Jewish jokes at a website called aWordInYourEye.com. That website's creator, David Minkoff, has given permission for jokes on his website to be reproduced here.
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From www.awordinyoureye.com. Copyright © 2001-2017 David Minkoff
You know you grew up Jewish when...
You know you grew up Jewish when...
- You did not respond to the teacher calling roll on the first day of school because you thought your name was "Princess."
- You spent your entire childhood thinking that everyone calls roast beef "brisket."
- Your family dog responds to complaints uttered in Yiddish.
- Every Sunday afternoon of your childhood was spent visiting your grandparents.
- You were as tall as your grandmother by age seven.
- You never knew anyone whose last name didn't end in one of 6 standard suffixes (-man, -witz, -berg, -stein, -blatt or -baum)
- You can look at gefilte fish without turning green.
- You grew up thinking there was a fish called lox.
- You can understand some Yiddish but you can't speak it.
- You know how to pronounce numerous Yiddish words and use them correctly in context, yet you don't exactly know what they mean.
- You grew up thinking it was normal for someone to shout "Are you okay? Are you okay?" through the bathroom door if you were in there for longer than 3 minutes.
- You have at least six male relatives named Michael or David.