S/O What's the FUNNIEST Jewish book you ever read?

Success10

Tue, Sep 15 2020, 3:19 pm

The Kiruv Files by Rabbi Dovid Kaplan. Funny, meaningful stories about the journey to Teshuva. Rabbi Kaplan is hysterical.

CHMother

Tue, Sep 15 2020, 3:24 pm

This thread is awesome. Anyone have time to compile a list of these recommendations?

amother

Gold

Tue, Sep 15 2020, 3:36 pm

amother [ Orchid ] wrote:

A recipe for disaster- An outrageously hilarious novel
By Z.C Berry
I'm not the type to laugh easily at all, but this book has me LOL

every time!

Came to this thread to post this book. Loved loved loved it!

top mom

Tue, Sep 15 2020, 3:44 pm

amother [ Orchid ] wrote:

A recipe for disaster- An outrageously hilarious novel
By Z.C Berry
I'm not the type to laugh easily at all, but this book has me LOL

every time!

My favorite is where her unmannered mom sluuuuurrrps her soup in the fancy restaurant! Laugh

PinkFridge

Tue, Sep 15 2020, 4:34 pm

amother [ Bisque ] wrote:

https://www.amazon.com/Kitchen-Daze-Halachic-Guide-bChalav/dp/B07KNYXW3M

Are you sure? And interestingly when I googled Dirah Daze, first hit was Imamother.

cbsp

Tue, Sep 15 2020, 4:35 pm

PinkFridge wrote:

Are you sure? And interestingly when I googled Dirah Daze, first hit was Imamother.

Kitchen Daze was the second one (I think after the bochur got married)

ETA: ok, it's spelled Dirah Days as per the back of Kitchen Daze

PinkFridge

Tue, Sep 15 2020, 4:40 pm

cbsp wrote:

Kitchen Daze was the second one (I think after the bochur got married)

ETA: ok, it's spelled Dirah Days as per the back of Kitchen Daze

I am so not finding it on google. At least not the first half of the first page. Gotta go.
Oh, and ditto for Kitchen Days/Daze.

jeweled

Tue, Sep 15 2020, 5:07 pm

lilies wrote:

If someone can help me remember the title, it's a kids book that I surprisingly enjoyed. Haven't enjoyed it enough to recommend but I can't remember the title so it's annoying enough to post Smile

The cover shows a group of boys, sitting in the woods I think, like camping out.
It's about a boy's club.

Cherry Bim Band?

lilies

Tue, Sep 15 2020, 5:57 pm

jeweled wrote:

Cherry Bim Band?

Nope, would've remembered that title!

cbsp

Tue, Sep 15 2020, 5:58 pm

PinkFridge wrote:

I am so not finding it on google. At least not the first half of the first page. Gotta go.
Oh, and ditto for Kitchen Days/Daze.

Me neither.

But it's a real book, we own a copy!

amother

Papaya

Tue, Sep 15 2020, 8:59 pm

Dirah Days or Daze is a halacha sefer in English going through basics of halachos of kashrus, written by a Rabbi Elbaz in EY.
The back of the book has crazy shailos he was asked by bochurim. That part is very funny Smile

My kids read that part.
Heating food in dryers...Stirring hot cocoa and hot cholent with different side pieces of glasses... Etc.

PinkFridge

Tue, Sep 15 2020, 8:59 pm

lilies wrote:

If someone can help me remember the title, it's a kids book that I surprisingly enjoyed. Haven't enjoyed it enough to recommend but I can't remember the title so it's annoying enough to post Smile

The cover shows a group of boys, sitting in the woods I think, like camping out.
It's about a boy's club.

Burksfield Bike Club?

lilies

Tue, Sep 15 2020, 10:07 pm

PinkFridge wrote:

Burksfield Bike Club?

No.
I'm going to waste half the night scrolling through book covers on Jewish book stores online. So frustrating.

#BestBubby

Tue, Sep 15 2020, 10:21 pm

Not a "frum" book but "Everything but Money" by Sam Levenson about growing up in a poor
Jewish family on the East Side in the 1920s.

lilies

Tue, Sep 15 2020, 10:41 pm

I can't find it, if anyone knows what I mean, you win some free advice.
Kids' book, cover shows a few boys sitting in the woods illuminated by candlelight. The dialogue was great, in the first chapter anyway, can't remember the rest.

amother

Lavender

Wed, Sep 16 2020, 12:06 am

#BestBubby wrote:

Not a "frum" book but "Everything but Money" by Sam Levenson about growing up in a poor
Jewish family on the East Side in the 1920s.

Really? I found that book to be quite depressing...but I read it as a kid. Maybe as an adult I would find it humorous.

Funniest frum writing imo is The Kichels. Bought the book and love it, hoping another anthology comes out.

As a kid, I remember laughing really hard while reading The Adventures of Jeremy Levi by Yaffa Ganz. No idea if it is still in print.

Malkqueen

Wed, Sep 16 2020, 12:11 am

#BestBubby wrote:

Not a "frum" book but "Everything but Money" by Sam Levenson about growing up in a poor
Jewish family on the East Side in the 1920s.

I read "In One Era and Out the Other" by Sam Levenson and laughed through the entire book. I started reading "Everything but Money" but didn't find it as funny.

Hashem_Yaazor

Wed, Sep 16 2020, 12:29 am

lilies wrote:

Secret of the woods by m jakubowicz?