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Zen Judaism
''Zen Judaism: For You a Little Enlightenment'' (Harmony Books, 2002) is a humor book by David M. Bader, the author of ''Haikus for Jews: For You a Little Wisdom'' (1999) and ''Haiku U.: From Aristotle to Zola, Great Books in 17 Syllables'' (Gotham Books, 2004). Widely circulated in e-mails and quoted on web pages, often without attribution, this collection of Jewish Zen combines Eastern wisdom and advice with Jewish kvetching. The following are examples: *The Journey of a thousand miles begins with a single "Oy." *There is no escaping karma. In a previous life, you never called, you never wrote, you never visited. And whose fault was that? *To know the Buddha is the highest attainment. Second highest is to go to the same doctor as the Buddha. ''From Zen Judaism: For You a Little Enlightenment (Harmony Books, 2002) David M. Bader David M. Bader is an author and former attorney. Early life, family and education Bader is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law Schoo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David M
David (; , "beloved one") (traditional spelling), , ''Dāwūd''; grc-koi, Δαυΐδ, Dauíd; la, Davidus, David; gez , ዳዊት, ''Dawit''; xcl, Դաւիթ, ''Dawitʿ''; cu, Давíдъ, ''Davidŭ''; possibly meaning "beloved one". was, according to the Hebrew Bible, the third king of the United Kingdom of Israel. In the Books of Samuel, he is described as a young shepherd and harpist who gains fame by slaying Goliath, a champion of the Philistines, in southern Canaan. David becomes a favourite of Saul, the first king of Israel; he also forges a notably close friendship with Jonathan, a son of Saul. However, under the paranoia that David is seeking to usurp the throne, Saul attempts to kill David, forcing the latter to go into hiding and effectively operate as a fugitive for several years. After Saul and Jonathan are both killed in battle against the Philistines, a 30-year-old David is anointed king over all of Israel and Judah. Following his rise to power, David ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Novak
William Novak (born 1948) is a Canadian–American author who has co-written or ghostwritten numerous celebrity memoirs for people including Lee Iacocca, Nancy Reagan, and Magic Johnson. He is also the editor, with Moshe Waldoks, of ''The Big Book of Jewish Humor''. He has also written several "private" books, which he described in a 2015 essay for ''The New York Times''. He is the father of actor and writer B. J. Novak and composer Jesse Novak. He is Jewish. Books * ''High Culture: Marijuana in the Lives of Americans''. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1980, * ''The Great American Man Shortage and Other Roadblocks to Romance (and What to Do About It)''. New York: Rawson Associates, 1983, * Lee Iacocca, Lee A. Iacocca with William Novak, ''Iacocca: An Autobiography''. New York: Bantam Books, 1984, * Sydney Biddle Barrows with William Novak, ''Mayflower Madam: The Secret Life of Sydney Biddle Barrows'', New York: Arbor House, 1986, * Herb Schmertz with William Novak. ''Good-Bye to t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Comedy Books
Comedy is a genre of fiction that consists of discourses or works intended to be humor Humour (English in the Commonwealth of Nations, Commonwealth English) or humor (American English) is the tendency of experiences to provoke laughter and provide amusement. The term derives from the humorism, humoral medicine of the ancient Gre ...ous or amusing by inducing laughter, especially in theatre, film, stand-up comedy, television, radio, books, Entertainment, or any other entertainment medium. The term originated in ancient Greece: in Athenian democracy, the public opinion of voters was influenced by political satire performed by comic poets in Ancient Greek theatre, theaters. The theatrical genre of Greek comedy can be described as a dramatic performance pitting two groups, ages, genders, or societies against each other in an amusing ''agon'' or conflict. Northrop Frye depicted these two opposing sides as a "Society of Youth" and a "Society of the Old". A revised view characterize ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jewish Comedy And Humor
Jews ( he, יְהוּדִים, , ) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites Israelite origins and kingdom: "The first act in the long drama of Jewish history is the age of the Israelites""The people of the Kingdom of Israel and the ethnic and religious group known as the Jewish people that descended from them have been subjected to a number of forced migrations in their history" and Hebrews of historical Israel and Judah. Jewish ethnicity, nationhood, and religion are strongly interrelated, "Historically, the religious and ethnic dimensions of Jewish identity have been closely interwoven. In fact, so closely bound are they, that the traditional Jewish lexicon hardly distinguishes between the two concepts. Jewish religious practice, by definition, was observed exclusively by the Jewish people, and notions of Jewish peoplehood, nation, and community were suffused with faith in the Jewish God, the practice of Jewish (religious) la ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
