Moment magazine's Cartoon Caption Contest for the Summer 2024 double issue brings together the old and the new generations in a backyard swimming pool setting. My fourteen captions—I'm not known for my self control—are shown below. The drawing is by Benjamin Schwartz, a mensch.
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| "They're from Ancestry.com." "The shtetl claims you owe back taxes." "They just made it here from Anatevka." "Do we have any kopeks?" "I found your birth parents." "You're gonna need a bigger float." "Can they stay until Tashlich?" "It's finally happened—our past has caught up with us." "So how do you like their canned slivovitz?" "You're not impressing them with our suffering." "They assert a rightful claim to your grandmother's samovar." "Forget the barbecue. We'll all have boiled chicken." "They need our help assimilating." "Why do they keep chanting l'dor vador?" |
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