The Enduring Power of Jewish Jokes
<p>The date was December 4th, 1996. I was ten years old. The Macarena was all the rage, with its viral dance routine and wildly inappropriate lyrics that our parents had no ability to Google. And on our basement TV — convex screen and all — I was witnessing something even more thrilling and subversive. That something was <a href="https://youtu.be/Ry3De1WiofE" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">The Rugrats’ Hanukkah special</a>.</p>
<p>As a Jewish kid, I’d never seen anything like it. It didn’t matter that I was growing up in an area with multiple synagogues located within minutes of each other, where the weekends of my seventh-grade year would be consumed with endless bar and bat mitzvahs. We watched TV. We flipped through magazines. We saw store window displays. We were aware of the larger cultural narrative, and we knew full well that we weren’t in it.</p>
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