Rosh HaShanah Happy Jew Year 5773 Why do Jews celebrate the new year in Autumn? Rosh HaShanah – the Jewish New Year’s holiday – is a celebration of the cyclical lunar calendar, and a time of forgiveness, renewal, and soul searching, aside from all the feasting and drinking that’s involved in the spirit of the […]
Holidays
Tu B’Av Loves Grapes And Virgins What’s Tu B’Av and what’s funny about it? Tu B’Av – the Jewish Love Day – celebrates the ritual tradition of men harvesting the early season’s grapes, while virginal unmarried women dance outside of the walls of Jerusalem. According to learned Judaic teachers, white garments are worn by the […]
Ahhhh … Shavuot. The cheesemakers, blessed as they are, love this holiday … almost as much as the cheese eaters. To cherish this sacred tradition of eating cheese and other dairy, Oy Vey presents you with this happy mouse caricature, illustrated among an array of tasty cheeses. Once you’ve filled up on the goods from […]
It’s Passover Eve. Not a matzo was leavened, not even one piece. Freedom’s just another word for so much tasty food. Shank Bone ain’t worth eatin’ but at least it’s free. Laughzilla penned this Happy Passover cartoon for the Oy Vey webcomic strip, as a reminder of the afflictions the Hebrew people survived in their […]
Remember this classic gem from the archives? Oy vey! You’ve been schnorrering free jokes from our hard working computers for donkey’s years. Be a good website tourist. If you laughed, tell your friends, or we’ll have to make you eat too much more chamin, capped off with tons of extra latkes, blintzes, sour cream and […]
