President Obama Sunday night honored this year’s five Kennedy Center Honorees -- comedian Mel Brooks, singer Bruce Springstein, actor Robert De Niro, jazz pianist and composer Dave Brubeck, and opera singer Grace Bumbrynd -- with a star-studded White House reception and some good natured kidding.
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“You have a lot of shtoch, or jab, humor, which is usually meant to deflate pomposity or ego, and to deflate people who consider themselves high and mighty,” explains Rabbi Moshe Waldoks, coauthor of “The Big Book of Jewish Humor.” “But Jewish humor was also a device for self-criticism within the community, and I think that’s where it really was the most powerful. The humorist, like the prophet, would basically take people to task for their failings...."
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